What's Included. Game time is set as soon as you install the Lifetime 3.5 in. Ground Sleeve into the front or back lawn. This sturdy, supportive sleeve makes it easy to install and remove 3.5-inch poles for basketball backboards and hoops.The 18-inch-long sleeve includes a corner wedge to lock the pole in place and ensure stability. Compatible only with Lifetime poles.hat's Included. Game time is set as soon as you install the Lifetime 3.5 in. Ground Sleeve into the front or back lawn. This sturdy, supportive sleeve makes it easy to install and remove 3.5-inch poles for basketball backboards and hoops.
Ancient Olympic Events. At the ancient Olympics, unlike the modern Games, there were very few events. All events were held at the Olympia Stadium in Greece. Only men competed in the Ancient Olympics, and they competed in the nude. Running: There were 4 types of races at Olympia. 2  The oldest event is the stadion, in which the runners sprinted over the distance of 1 stade (192 m), which is the length of the ancient stadium in Olympic.
The Olympics truly took off as an international sporting event after 1924, when the VIII Games were held in Paris. Some 3,000 athletes (with more than 100 women among them) from 44 nations competed that year, and for the first time the Games featured a closing ceremony. The Winter Olympics debuted that year, including such events as figure skating, ice hockey, bobsledding and the biathlon. Eighty years later, when the 2004 Summer Olympics returned to Athens for the first time in more than a century, nearly 11,000 athletes from a record 201 countries competed.