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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).
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
These sports were removed because of lack of interest or the absence of an appropriate governing body, [4] and are considered unlikely to ever return. Five early Olympic sports that were removed by the IOC have managed to return to the Olympic program: archery in 1972, tennis in 1988, curling in 1998, golf in 2016 and cricket in 2028.
The news that breaking wouldn't be included in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles was actually announced a few years ago. In 2022, the International Olympic Committee announced which 28 sports had ...
This year's Super Bowl, at the end of the NFL's first 17-game season, falls on Feb. 13, the second Sunday of the Olympics. NBC, which will broadcast both, and which wields immense power in the ...
Texas has 38 athletes on Team USA as they prepare to head to the Paris Olympics.
The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.
Olympic Games that were scheduled but cancelled, in all cases due to World War I (1916) or World War II (1940 and 1944).. On 24 March 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he and International Olympic Committee's president Thomas Bach had agreed to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics, pending approval by the IOC, due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. [1]