2024Sport - The Games of XXXIII Olympiad, Paris - First Day Cover

Archery was included in the Olympic Games in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1920. It was one of the first sports in the Olympic history to include events for female competitors, which were introduced at the Games of the III Olympiad at St. Louis (USA) in 1904. After the Games of 1920 archery was taken out of the programme of the Olympics due to a lack of clear-cut rules and the absence of a united international organisation. It only returned to the Olympic Games more than 50 years later at the Games of the XX Olympiad held in Munich in 1972. At the present, archery is part and parcel of the Olympic programme.