Korfball at the 1928 Summer Olympics Korfball at the 1928 Summer Olympics Korfball was a demonstration sport at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. It took place at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam at 6 August 1928. It was the second time that korfball was a demonstration sport at the Olympic Games. It was also a demonstration sport at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. Two Dutch teams of 12 players played a match against each other at 6 August 1928. One team wore red-white shirts and the other team played in red-black shirts. The referee was H. W. Vliegen, LL. B. and the Assistant referees
Olympic Games the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Guttmann brought 400 athletes to compete in the "Parallel Olympics", which became known as the first Paralympics. Since then, the Paralympics have been held in every Olympic year. Since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the host city for the Olympics has also played host to the Paralympics. In 2001 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) signed an agreement guaranteeing that host cities would be contracted to manage both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The agreement came into effect at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, and