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Here are six interesting facts about the Olympics as the 2024 Paris Games kick off on July 26.
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The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...
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.
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, men's springboard diving was added to the program replacing the plunge for distance, regarded as uninteresting. [2] Women's diving debut happened at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. A parallel platform diving event for men, called ...
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastHaving been postponed on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Olympics started this week in Tokyo, Japan. For die-hard fans this year will be a ...
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 International ...