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Olympic Games At Nagano: A tropical country, which has never seen snow, Jamaica sent a bobsleigh team to the 1998 Winter Olympic Games at Nagano, Japan.
Jamaica (capital: Kingston) is situated in the Caribbean south of Cuba and has an area of 10,991 sq km/4,244 sq mi.
Jamaica exports aluminium, bauxite, raw sugar, garments, bananas, rum and coffee, mainly to the UK, Canada, the Netherlands and US.
5. The Olympic Stadium, a structure first built under Lycurgus about 330 B. c. for the Panathenean Games, was rebuilt in modern times by a wealthy Greek named Averof. The Olympic Games, whose classic locale was in the Peloponnesian town of Olympia, were revived in this stadium in 1896.
In the shot put a heavy metal sphere is propelled from a circle seven feet in diameter; four feet of its circumference—in the forepart of the circle—contains a toeboard four inches high. In this event the shot is not allowed to pass behind or below the shoulder, so that technically it is "put" rather than "thrown." A 16-pound shot is used in major masculine competition, such as in the Olympic Games, national championships, and intercollegiate competition; the 12-pound shot is usually used by males in secondary schools, and the 8-pound shot is used in feminine competition, including the Olympic Games. In the games the shot put is also one of the 10 decathlon events for men. A put of over 65 feet has been made with the 16-pound shot, and a woman has exceeded 56 feet with the 8-pound shot.
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