| Since the early 1900s countries around the world | | | | anticipated my many. |
| have been taking part in demonstration sports to | | | | Hot Air Ballooning: Oddly enough, ballooning was |
| promote certain events they would like to see | | | | actually hoping to be induced into the Summer |
| competing in the Summer Olympics. Each year, | | | | Olympics. But what would they do, and how |
| the host country would be able to present various | | | | competitive sport can this sport actually be? Also, |
| sports of their choosing so that the sporting | | | | would there be sponsored advertisements on the |
| officials could choose whether or not they were | | | | sides of each balloon? |
| Olympic friendly. It was a popular tactic that | | | | Surfing: Some countries don't get waves. How |
| worked extremely well for some years, but in | | | | could surfing be a fair sport that can travel |
| 1992 the demonstrations stopped because there | | | | anywhere the Olympics go? It can't. The activity |
| were way too many events for the officials to | | | | known as surf lifesaving is claimed to be "putting |
| handle. | | | | beach heroes to the test." Originating in Australia |
| The following sports are activities which were | | | | in the 20th Century, these heroic lifesavers were |
| presented but never accepted into the world's | | | | hoping to name Surf Lifesaving a summer |
| greatest sporting event of all time, the Summer | | | | Olympic soport. |
| Olympics. | | | | Glima: This is a full contact sport that gets |
| Lawn Bowling: This sport is very popular in New | | | | inspiration from ancient Folk wrestling. It requires a |
| Zealand, Austrailia, and the United Kingdom. Over | | | | lot of strength and skill and is considered Iceland's |
| there they call it "Bowls." The game is highly | | | | national sport. There are actually fifty different |
| regarded as a precision sport. In fact, every year | | | | ways you can execute a throw down, it's hard to |
| the UK hosts the World Championship with is | | | | believe this is not yet an Olympic sport. It must |
| watched by about three million viewers and | | | | be to the fact that it's pretty exclusive to Iceland. |