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Tennis was included as an Olympic sport in the very first Games in 1896.

It was dropped from the schedule after the 1924 Games, and was reinstated as a medal sport in 1988, having also had 2 Olympics previously where it was played as a demonstration sport.

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Men's Basketball debuted at the 1904 Games in St. Louis as a demonstration event. Men's basketball has been a medal event at the Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin. Women's basketball has been a medal event since the 1976 Games in Montreal.

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The NBA is not an Olympic sport. Basketball is the sport but NBA players were allowed to play starting at the 1992. Prior to that NBA professional players were banned from competing and only amateurs could play in the Olympics.

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1936 for men, in Berlin, Germany.

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Golf was in the 1900 and the 1904 Olymipics. It will return for the 2016 games in Rio de Janiero.

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Football (soccer) was introduced to the Olympics at the 1900 Games in Paris.

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Wrestling was a sport in the first Modern Olympics in 1896 and it has been documented that wrestling was an event in the Ancient Olympics as far back as 708 BC.

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Men's Basketball has been played consistently at the Summer Olympic Games since 1936, with demonstration events in 1904 and 1924.

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