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All About Olympic Archery

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During the first Olympic games in Greece, archery wasn't part of the official games. However, if you do some reasearch into the history of Olympic archery, you'll discover that the sport has been around for more than a thousand years. Thus, it's possible that Olympic archery has been part of the circuit for that long.

Olympic archery, Men's Division, was first launched in 1900. Four years later, Olympic archery, Women's Division, was also launched. Sadly, uniformity wasn't established regarding rules and regulations for the Olympic event. This eventually led to Olympic archery being dropped from official events in 1920. In 1931, the FITA, or the Federation Internationale de Tira l'Arc was established.

This is the official governing body of the sport on a global perspective. Over the years, FITA and its members debated in the hopes of establishing common ground for official rules of Olympic archery. It took several years, actually. Eventually participating countries have reached common ground on the rules, but this wasn't enough to get Olympic archery back as an event.

In fact, it wasn't until 1972 that Olympic archery made it back into the official roster. The Olympic games were held at Munich. In 1988, Olympic archery expanded into team competitions, along with individual events.

For Olympic archery, it's the recurve bow that has gained a reputation of being the official bow. Olympic archers are very careful when releasing arrows from this type of bow because the arrows can travel as fast as 150 mph. The bows themselves are very sleek in appearance, being made of wood, graphite, and fiberglass.

The bows also have stabilizers used in maintaining the straight course of the arrows as they're released. The strings of the bow are also made from the same material that comprises Kevlar.

The arrows used in for the Olympics should be made of either carbon graphite or aluminum. These are the only arrows that make it into the Olympics.