Marathon swimming (10k events for men and women), women's 3,000 meter steeplechase, and two new BMX cycling events.
The First Event to start at the 2008 Beijing Olympics was Football, which started 2 days before the Offical Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing were Stephanie Rice's first Olympic Games.
In the modern Olympics, that was 1896.
1896 Olympics, the first one.
Tom has Dived in 2 Olympics so far; the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the London 2012 Olympics.
Once. Her first was at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
No but they did share their poems they made for the olympics when it was first created
Modern Olympics: first medal awarded was in the Men's Triple Jump in 1896.
The gold medal is an award given to the first place winners in Olympic events. The most recent Olympics in China followed in this tradition.
Three countries made their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Games in Beijing: Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Montenegro
Tom entered his first Olympic competition at Beijing in China 2008. He came 7th in the 10 mtr platform event.
Yes, ice hockey debuted at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp because, at the time, there were no Winter Olympics. Ice hockey has been a Winter Olympic event since the first Winter Olympics in 1924.