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The list of Olympic sports has changed considerably during the course of Olympic history, and has gradually increased over time. The Olympic Charter decrees that Olympic sports for each edition of the Olympic Games should be decided at an IOC Session no later than seven years prior to the Games.
By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens (1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics), Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024 Summer Olympics), London (1908, 1948 and 2012 Summer Olympics), St. Moritz (1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics), Lake Placid (1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics), Los Angeles (1932, 1984 and 2028 Summer Olympics ...
The following is a list of sports and games, ... Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Basketball. 3x3 basketball; Beach ...
This category contains articles about former and present Olympic sports. For information on sports competitions featured on the Olympic program see Category:Sports at the Summer Olympics and Category:Sports at the Winter Olympics .
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from ...
An athletics event in the 2008 Summer Olympics.The Olympic Games, part of the Olympic movement, was the first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance.
At the 1921 Olympic Congress in Lausanne, it was decided to hold a winter version of the Olympic Games. A winter sports week (it was actually 11 days) was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, in connection with the Paris Games held three months later; this event became the first Winter Olympic Games. [46]
The List of athletes with Olympic medals in different sports is a list of athletes who have won medals in two different sports at the Olympic Games. [1] List