Questão 762049

Read the text and answer the questions 35, 36 and 37.

Olympic Sports

1 The first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens,

Greece, in the year 1896. Athletes from only 13 countries

participated in the Games that year. They competed in 43

different events in just 9 sports (track and field, swimming,

5 cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, tennis, weight

lifting, and wrestling). In 2004, the Olympic Games took

place once again in Athens. This time athletes from 202

countries competed in 300 events in 28 sports. Only five

sports have been in every Olympic Games.

Fonte: adapted from Thoughts and Notions.

The underlined words “took place”, (line 01), in the text, is closest in meaning to