Why did the Olympics Committee eliminate tennis after 1924?
Wiley Waelchi
Anonymous
It was dropped when the International Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee had a dispute over allowing amateurs to compete.
National Olympic Committee of Lithuania was created in 1924.
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Tennis was a part of the original modern Olympics that were started in 1896. Tennis was an Olympic sport until after the 1924 Olympics when it was dropped. Tennis, again, became an Olympic sport beginning with the 1988 Olympics.
Tennis. The 1988 Games were the first Games that tennis was a medal sport since the 1924 Games in Paris.
Tennis was an event at the first modern Olympics in 1896 and was competed at every Olympics until 1924. Tennis was dropped after the 1924 Games and did not make its return until 1984 as a demonstration sport and 1988 as a medal sport.
Tennis has been an Olympic sport since the games' inception in 1896 at Athens through 1924, and then from 1988 to the present day. For a list of medal winners, click on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) link, below. On that page, click at least one item from each line in the "STEP 1: COMPULSORY FIELDS" section, and then select "Tennis" in the "SPORTS AND EVENTS" box in the "STEP 2: OPTIONAL FIELDS" section, then, optionally, select any other fields in "Step 2". Then, click the red "Search" button to find that list of Olympic medal winners in tennis.
The year was actually 1924. Tennis was dropped from the Olympic programme after 1924 amid turmoil over such issues as where to draw the line between amateurism and professionalism, and it didn't return as a medal sport until 1988.
Tennis was an event at the first Modern Olympics in 1896. It was contested every Olympics until 1924. It was then dropped from the Games and did not return as a medal event until 1988.