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Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics included 32 sports; [ 1 ] the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Each Olympic sport is represented at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by an international governing body called an ...
He attempted to have winter sports, specifically figure skating, added to the Olympic programme but was unsuccessful until the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. [10] Four figure skating events were contested, at which Ulrich Salchow (10-time world champion) and Madge Syers won the individual titles.
The Russian athlete Nikolai Panin is unique in having competed in both a summer sport (shooting in 1912) and a winter sport (figure skating in 1908) but only competing at the Summer Olympics. [2] Among these athletes, the most-occurring combination is bobsledding and athletics (also known as track and field), followed by cycling and speed ...
This is a list of nations, as represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs), that have participated in the Winter Olympic Games between 1924 and 2022. The Winter Olympic Games have been held every four years (once during each Olympiad ) since 1924, except for the cancelled Games of 1940 and 1944, and in 1994 when the Winter Games were moved ...
The Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games. Figure skating (in 1908 and 1920) and ice hockey (in 1920) were featured as Olympic events at the Summer Olympics. [45] The IOC desired to expand this list of sports to encompass other winter activities.
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.
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris, France.
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 .