Basketball

Basketball first featured as an Olympic sport in Berlin 1936 for men. It began as a women's Olympic sport in 1976 in Montreal.

There are two teams of five players playing for 4 x 10 minutes who score points by shooting the ball into the basketball hoop. How many points they score depends on where the ball is shot from. They are awarded one point if it's a hoop after a foul, two points if the shots taken inside the three point line and three points if they shoot from outside the three-point line.

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