№ 26-28. The 25th Olympic Games. Barselona-92.

Handball is a team game which implies passing the ball to rhe partners in order to make a goal. According to the rules tournaments are held in gyms. Male teams were included in the Olympic Games in 1936, female ones - in 1976. Handball world championships are being held since 1938, European championships - since 1994.

Men fight with rapiers, slashers and swords; women fight with rapiers and swords only. The referee indicates the moment of touching the contender by a sword. Sometimes it is indicated with the help of an electroclamp. At the rapier competitions only corpus rapier-thrust are allowed. At the sword competitions all the sword strokes except the back of the head ones are allowed; at the slasher competitions all the strokes above the belt are allowed. Fencing was included in the Olympic Games in 1896.

Judo ("soft way") appeared at the end of the 19th century as a modernized variant of a self-defence system spread in Japan. Judo competitions in three weights were included in the Olympic Games in 1964. Later there were seven weights. European championships are being held since 1951, world ones - since 1956.