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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are almost here, and I certainly look forward to watching talented athletes compete for gold medals. This year, the games will feature 329 events in 32 sports ...
Modern pentathlon spent much of the 2010s trying to justify its Olympic existence, and an incident in Tokyo in 2021 might well have spelled the end of the sport as an Olympic event.
An Icelandic alpine skier who (as of October 2018) has competed in 1 Olympic Games and 2 World Championships, but has yet to finish a single race. Elizabeth Swaney: A Hungarian-American freestyle skier who competed at the halfpipe event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, despite being incapable of performing basic tricks. Manti Te'o
5. Judo & Taekwondo. Debuted: Tokyo 1964 & Seoul 1988 There is very little difference between Olympic martial arts and a Kung Fu movie. Peak physical condition across the board.
Aeronautics at the 1936 Summer Olympics; Alpinism at the Olympic Games; American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics; American football at the Summer Olympics; Angling at the 1900 Summer Olympics; Art competitions at the Summer Olympics; Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics
In Amsterdam, the number of events was also increased, as four of the five fields of art were subdivided, creating more events. Because of the economy and the remote location of Los Angeles, participation in the athletic events of the 1932 Games was lower than that of 1928. The art competition did not suffer from this problem, and the number of ...
A torchbearer carries the Olympic flame over a building along the Seine River during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in Paris, France on July 26, 2024.
At the Summer Olympics, there have been eight Olympic sports that have been discontinued.. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, long-discontinued sports in golf (last competed in 1904) and rugby (last competed in 1924) were reinstated as Olympic sports, though rugby was as rugby sevens (having previously been rugby union).