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When was basketball introduced as an Olympic sport?
1936 [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#00BCD4″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]Basketball first featured in the Olympic Games St. Louis 1904 as a demonstration sport, but it wasn’t until Berlin 1936 that men’s basketball appeared on the Olympic programme. Meanwhile, the women’s game made its Olympic debut almost 40 years…