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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 ...
Olympic Solidarity, a development program launched by the IOC, covers travel expenses for the Refugee Olympic Team and continues to support the team’s athletes following the Games.
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 ...
Breaking, or breakdancing, will debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Baseball, softball and karate were dropped. Your guide to the new sports at the Paris 2024 Olympics: Scoring, rules ...
For most of its history, rowing has been a male dominated sport. Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate – well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.
At first glance, the logo for the Paris Olympics appears to be a flame against a gold background. But look closer, open your mind a touch, and a new image will take shape. Olympic mystery solved ...
Independent Olympians at the Olympic Games (6 C, 11 P) 1906 Intercalated Games (4 C, 3 P) International Olympic Committee sessions (16 P) M. Olympic museums (14 P)
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.