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The following sports (and disciplines) make up the current and discontinued Summer Olympic Games official program and are listed alphabetically according to the name used by the IOC. The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport contested at the respective Games; a bullet ( • ) denotes that the sport was contested as a ...
For the previous three Olympiads (1956–1964), the two NOCs were jointly represented by a united German team. [27] The 1972 Summer Olympics, in Munich, featured 121 nations, the highest total yet. [28] The next three Games were each marred by significant boycotts. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, in Montreal, only 92 nations were represented. [29]
for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. MIX Mixed-NOCs: 2010– Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics ...
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 , then part of the Kingdom of Greece , and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris , France.
This category contains articles about former and present Summer Olympic sports and disciplines. References for inclusion: IOC: Olympic sports. For details of Olympic results by sport see Category:Sports at the Summer Olympics.
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute ... Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics (14 C, 57 P) A. Archery at the Summer Olympics ...
The United States has placed first overall in the Summer Olympic Games nineteen times, followed by the Soviet Union with six overall victories (not including the 1992 first-place finish by the Unified Team).
The mixed event, a 4 x 400 meters relay, first made an appearance at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2] The event includes teams of four athletes, two men and two women who are allowed to run in any order decided by the team. Paris 2024 will feature one more mixed team event. [3]