Not many of us know much about archery competition, and probably less about archery competition in the olympics. With the 2008 Olympic Summer Games to be held soon in China, maybe this short article will help to make watching archery more enjoyable.

The Olympic games in 1900 Paris was the first appearance of archery. 7 events in varying distances were contested. The next olympics in 1904 St. Louis had 5 archery events but no athletes from outside the United States competed. At the 1908 Summer Olympics, there were 3 archery events. Archery was not featured at the 1912 Summer Olympics but reappeared in the 1920 Summer Olympics.