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1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 foot (3.048 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed...
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are...
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Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non...
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- Men's 10 metre platform ,
- Women's 10 metre platform ,
- Men's 3 metre springboard ,
- Women's 3 metre springboard
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Football
Football
(also known as association football or soccer) is a team sport played
between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely considered to be the
most popular sport in the world. A ball game, it is played on a
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Fencing
Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned. Examples include swords, knives, pikes,...
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Rowing
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the...
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- Women's Quadruple sculls without coxswain ,
- Women's Lightweight double sculls ,
- Men's Lightweight coxless four ,
- Men's Coxless pair
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Sailing
Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with large (usually fabric) foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction...
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Swimming
The aquatic sport of swimming involves competition amongst participants to be the fastest over a given distance under self propulsion. The different events include 25(8&U;), 50, 100, 200, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, the 25(8&U;), 50, 100...
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- Women's 200m backstroke ,
- Men's 4x100m medley relay ,
- Men's 1500m freestyle ,
- Men's Swimming, marathon 10km
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Shooting sports
The shooting sports include those competitive sports involving tests of proficiency (accuracy and speed) using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns (see archery for more information on shooting sports that make use of bows and arrows)....
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Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles.
Track racing is also done on grass...
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- Men's Track cycling, Individual Pursuit ,
- Men's Track cycling, Olympic Sprint ,
- Men's Track cycling, Team Pursuit (4000m) ,
- Women's Track cycling, points race
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Weightlifting
Olympic weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting or weightlifting, is a sport in which participants attempt a maximum weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
The two lifts competed are the clean and jerk and the...
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- Men's Weightlifting, Bantamweight -56kg ,
- Women's Weightlifting, 48kg ,
- Women's Weightlifting, 69kg ,
- Men's Weightlifting, Light Heavyweight 77-85 kg
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Show jumping
Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping" or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters and equitation. Jumping classes are commonly seen at horse shows throughout the...
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Track and field athletics
Track and Field Athletics is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing, jumping and walking. Organised athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, and most modern events are conducted by the member clubs of...
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Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals....
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Dressage
Dressage (pronounced dress-ahhzh /ˈdrɛsɑʒ/) (a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a path and destination of competitive horse training, with competitions held at all levels from amateur to the Olympics. Its fundamental...
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Eventing
Eventing is an equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country and show jumping. This event has its roots as a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding. It has three main formats, the one day event (ODE), two...
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Modern pentathlon
The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run. The sport is governed by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM),...
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Artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics. Competitive gymnasts perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting (see lists below). Artistic gymnastics has become a...
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- Women's Gymnastics, team competition ,
- Men's Parallel bars ,
- Men's Gymnastics, individual all-round ,
- Women's Floor exercises
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Greco-Roman wrestling
Greco-Roman wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced worldwide and is contested at the Olympic games. This style of wrestling forbids attacks below the waist, which results in an emphasis on more dramatic throws, since a wrestler...
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- Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, 84 - 96kg ,
- Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, 55 - 60kg ,
- Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, 96 - 120kg ,
- Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, 60 - 66kg
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Road cycling
Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling. It takes place primarily on paved surfaces. It includes recreational, racing, and utility cycling. Experienced road cyclists generally obey the same rules and laws as other vehicle drivers and are...
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- Women's Road cycling, individual time trial ,
- Men's Road cycling, individual time trial ,
- Men's Road cycling, individual road race ,
- Women's Road cycling, individual road race
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Freestyle wrestling
Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest...
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- Women's Freestyle Wrestling, 55 - 63kg ,
- Men's Freestyle Wrestling, 66 - 74kg ,
- Women's Freestyle Wrestling, 63 - 72kg ,
- Men's Freestyle Wrestling, 96 - 120kg
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Canoe racing
This article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation (ICF).
Canoe sprint, which is referred to by the IOC as ...
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- Men's C-1 500m (canoe single) ,
- Men's C-1 1000m (canoe single) ,
- Women's K-2 500m (kayak double) ,
- Men's C-2 1000m (canoe double)
