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For the Summer Olympics, there are 29 venues that have been or will be used for basketball. The first official venue was outdoors under the auspices of the International Basketball Federation although the game was played indoors. [1] Being played on tennis courts of clay, the final was held in a heavy rain which turned the courts into mud. [2]
The Olympic athletics programme has played a significant role in shaping the most common events in the sport. The World Athletics Championships is the foremost World Championship event, holding the vast majority of World Championship-level events within the competition.
The Olympic Games programme consists of 35 sports, 30 disciplines and 408 events. For example, wrestling is a Summer Olympic sport, comprising two disciplines: Greco-Roman and Freestyle. It is further broken down into fourteen events for men and four events for women, each representing a different weight class. [166]
There are 26 athletes that have at least one Olympic appearance in art competitions, but this sport and its results are not included on the official Olympic website. [citation needed] The most common combinations of sports are road cycling/track cycling (406), swimming/water polo (156) and marathon swimming/swimming (52). [citation needed]
Starting with the 2020 Games, the IOC altered the way it plans the Olympic sports program: rather than basing it on a maximum number of sports, the total number of events are now taken into account, opening the schedule up for the inclusion on a per-Games basis of additional sports to the 28 "core" sports. For the 2020 Summer Olympics, the ...
The last women's event added to the roster was the 3000 metres steeplechase in 2008. A total of 52 different events have been held in the men's competition. The current list comprises 23 events. Many of the discontinued events were similar to modern ones but at different lengths, especially in the steeplechasing, hurdling, and racewalking ...
The number of teams involved in the games has grown steadily since 1964. Since 1996, both men's and women's indoor events count 12 participant nations. Each of the five continental volleyball confederations has at least one affiliated national federation involved in the Olympic Games.
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.