The IOC adds and removes sports from the Olympics now and then. Perhaps you knew that rugby was for a time an Olympic sport, as was golf. Maybe you didn't know that water-skiing and "power boating" were Olympic sports. I can almost guarantee you didn't know that medals were given for victory in tug-of-war. For twenty years, even.
Tug-of-war was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1904, 1906 (Intercalated Games), 1908, 1912 and 1920. Tug-of-war was always contested as a part of the track and field athletics programme, although it is now considered a separate sport. The Olympic champions were as follows: 1900: a combined Swedish/Danish team; 1904: an American club team representing the Milwaukee Athletic Club; 1906: Germany/Switzerland; 1908: a British team from the City of London Police Club; 1912: Sweden; and 1920: Great Britain.
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