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| x Archery |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Archery, individual |
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity. One who practices archery is...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Archery, team | ||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Men's Archery, team | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Men's Archery, individual | ||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Baseball |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Men's baseball |
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on...
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| x Basketball |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's basketball |
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 feet (3.048 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Women's basketball | ||||
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| x Badminton |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Badminton, singles |
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Badminton, singles | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Men's Badminton, doubles | ||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | Women's Badminton, doubles | ||||
| 2008 Summer Olympics | Badminton, mixed doubles | ||||
| x Boxing |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's Boxing, 54 - 57kg (featherweight) |
Boxing (sometimes also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") 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...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's Boxing, 51 - 54kg (bantamweight) | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Boxing, 64 - 69 kg | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Men's Boxing, 75 - 81kg (light-heavyweight) | ||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Men's Boxing, 69 - 75 kg | ||||
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| x Biathlon |
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2010 Winter Olympics |
Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Another popular variant is summer biathlon,...
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| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Croquet |
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1900 Summer Olympics |
Croquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport, which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court.
In the book Queen of Games: The History of...
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| x Curling |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice. Teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones down the ice towards the target ...
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| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2010 Winter Olympics | |||||
| x Cross-country skiing |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Cross-country skiing (also known as XC skiing) is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada,...
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| x Diving |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's 10 metre platform |
Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Women's 10 metre platform | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's 3 metre springboard | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's 3 metre springboard | ||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Women's synchronized 10 metre platform | ||||
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| x Football |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's 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
rectangular grass field, or...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's football | ||||
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Field hockey |
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Women's hockey |
Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal. Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many...
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| x Fencing |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's Foil individual |
Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping bludgeoning weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned. Examples include swords, knives, pikes...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's Sabre team | ||||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | Men's Foil individual | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Sabre individual | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Men's Sabre individual | ||||
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| x Figure skating |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and at local,...
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| 1948 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1928 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Golf |
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1900 Summer Olympics |
Golf is a sport in which players (golfers) using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that do not use a standardized playing area;...
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| x Gymnastics |
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Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération...
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| x Team handball |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's handball |
Handball (also known as team handball, Olympic handball or European handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team...
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| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's handball | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Ice Hockey |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Ice hockey (frequently simply called hockey in countries where it is played) is a team sport played on ice that originated in Canada around 1800. It is a fast-paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold...
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| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Judo |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Judo, 48 - 52kg (half-lightweight) |
Judo (柔道, jūdō), meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Men's Judo, 81 - 90kg (middleweight) | ||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Men's Judo, 73 - 81kg (half-middleweight) | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Judo, 70 - 78kg (half-heavyweight) | ||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | Women's Judo, 57 - 63kg (half-middleweight) | ||||
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| x Lacrosse |
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1908 Summer Olympics |
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the...
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| x Polo |
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1936 Summer Olympics |
Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport...
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| 1900 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Rowing |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's Quadruple sculls without coxswain |
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, 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 water....
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Women's Lightweight double sculls | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Lightweight coxless four | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Men's Coxless pair | ||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Men's Quadruple sculls without coxswain | ||||
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| x Tug of war |
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1920 Summer Olympics |
Tug of war, also known as tug o' war, tug war or rope pulling, is a sport that directly puts two teams against each other in a test of strength. The term may also be used as a metaphor to describe a demonstration of brute strength by two opposing...
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| 1904 Summer Olympics | |||||
| x Sailing |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's RS:X - Windsurfer |
Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with large (usually fabric) foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and dagger or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's 470 - Two Person Dinghy | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Finn - Heavyweight Dinghy | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | 49er - Skiff | ||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Women's 470 - Two Person Dinghy | ||||
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| x Synchronized swimming |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Sychronized swimming, team |
Synchronized swimming is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and figure skating, consisting of swimmers (either solos, duets, teams or trios) performing a synchronised routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music. Synchronized swimming...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Sychronized swimming, duet | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1988 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Swimming |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's 200m backstroke |
Swimming is movement through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational. Its primary uses are bathing, cooling, travel, fishing, escape, exercise, and sport.
Swimming has been known...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's 4x100m medley relay | ||||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | Men's 1500m freestyle | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Swimming, marathon 10km | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Men's 4x200m freestyle relay | ||||
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| x Speed skating |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Speed skating or speedskating is a competitive form of skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speedskating are long track speedskating, short track speedskating, inline speedskating (or...
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| 1948 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1928 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Shooting sports |
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1896 Summer Olympics | Women's Skeet |
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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| 1900 Summer Olympics | Women's 10m air pistol | ||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics | Men's 50m pistol | ||||
| 1912 Summer Olympics | Women's Trap | ||||
| 1920 Summer Olympics | Women's 25m pistol | ||||
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| x Tennis |
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1896 Summer Olympics | Men's Tennis, doubles |
Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt (most of the time Optic Yellow) over a net into the...
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| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Tennis, singles | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Tennis, singles | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Tennis, doubles | ||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Taekwondo |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Taekwondo, 57 - 67 kg |
Taekwondo (Korean pronunciation: [tʰɛkwʌndo]) is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. It is the world's most popular martial art in terms of the number of practitioners. Gyeorugi (pronounced [ɡjʌɾuɡi]), a type of sparring, has...
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Taekwondo, 49 - 57 kg | ||||
| Men's Taekwondo, 58 - 68 kg | |||||
| Women's Taekwondo, - 49 kg | |||||
| Men's Taekwondo, + 80 kg | |||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Table tennis |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Table tennis, singles |
Table tennis, also known as ping pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets (also known as "bats" or "paddles"). The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Players must allow...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Table tennis, team | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Table tennis, singles | ||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | Men's Table tennis, team | ||||
| 1988 Summer Olympics | |||||
| x Track cycling |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's Track cycling, Individual Pursuit |
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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's Track cycling, Olympic Sprint | ||||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | Men's Track cycling, Team Pursuit (4000m) | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Track cycling, points race | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Men's Track cycling, Keirin | ||||
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| x Triathlon |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Individual Triathlon |
A triathlon is a multi-sport endurance event consisting of swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall course completion time, including timed "transitions" between the...
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Individual Triathlon | ||||
| x Volleyball |
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2008 Summer Olympics | 1924 Summer Olympics | Men's Volleyball |
Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. This article focuses on competitive indoor...
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Volleyball | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Weightlifting |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's Weightlifting, 56kg |
Weightlifting, also called Olympic weightlifting or Olympic-style 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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Women's Weightlifting, 48kg | ||||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | Women's Weightlifting, 69kg | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Men's Weightlifting, 85kg | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Weightlifting, 58kg | ||||
| more ▼ | |||||
| x Show jumping |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Jumping, team |
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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Jumping, individual | ||||
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Luge |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Luge is also the name of the...
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| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| 1992 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Snowboarding |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by...
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| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2010 Winter Olympics | |||||
| x Water skiing |
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1972 Summer Olympics |
Waterskiing is a sport where an individual (or more than one individual) is pulled behind a motor boat or a cable ski installation on a body of water. The skier is either wearing one (slalom) or two (double) skis. The surface area of the ski (or...
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| x Alpine skiing |
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2002 Winter Olympics | Women's Downhill |
Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long skis attached to each foot. Alpine skiing takes place at specially developed ski resorts where trees are cut, slopes are...
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| 1948 Winter Olympics | Men's Downhill | ||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics | ||||
| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1994 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Bobsleigh |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Bobsleigh, bobsled or bobsledge is a winter sport invented by Englishmen in the late 1860s in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. The various types of sleds came several years before the...
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| 1948 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1928 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Cricket |
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1900 Summer Olympics |
Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The...
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| x Nordic combined |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in nordic skiing since the 18th century, the first major competition in Nordic...
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| 1948 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1928 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Ski jumping |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to fly as far as possible. In addition to the length that skiers jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and...
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| 1928 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1924 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Freestyle skiing |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Freestyle skiing is an acrobatic form of technical and aerial skiing. It is organized into a number of different disciplines, although there are no impartial authorities for managing the sport internationally.
Freestyle skiing first began to be...
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| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Short track speed skating |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Short track speed skating (also Shorttrack speedskating) is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m. The rink itself is...
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| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1998 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| x Athletics |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's 4x400 metres relay |
Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping. The name "athletics" is derived from the Greek word "athlos", meaning "contest".
The original and...
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's Long jump | ||||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | Women's Athletics, 5000m | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Hammer throw | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Shot put | ||||
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| x Water polo |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Men's 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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Women's water polo | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Dressage |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Dressage, team |
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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Dressage, individual | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Eventing |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Eventing, individual |
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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Eventing, team | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Modern pentathlon |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's 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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's Modern pentathlon | ||||
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| 1976 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Softball |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Women's softball |
Softball is a team sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball. Some key differences between softball and baseball are that softballs are larger than baseballs, and pitches are thrown underhand rather than...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | |||||
| x Skeleton |
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2002 Winter Olympics |
Chunks. Skeleton originated as a spin-off from the popular British sport of Cresta Sledding in St. Moritz, Switzerland. While Skeleton "sliders" use similar equipment to Cresta "riders", the two sports are different and should not be confused (See...
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| 1948 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1928 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 2010 Winter Olympics | |||||
| x Mountain biking |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Mountain bike, women's cross-country |
Mountain biking entails the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, whether riding specially equipped mountain bikes or hybrid road bikes. Most mountain bikes share similar characteristics that underscore durability and...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Mountain bike, men's cross-country | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | |||||
| x Rhythmic gymnastics |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Rhymthic gymnastics, individual all-round |
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individual competitors or pairs, trios or even more (generally five) manipulate one or two apparatus: rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that combines elements of ballet,...
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Rhymthic gymnastics, group competition | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1988 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| x Jeu de paume |
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1908 Summer Olympics | 1900 Summer Olympics |
Jeu de paume was originally a French precursor of lawn tennis played without racquets. The players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla, volleyball, or certain varieties of pelota. Jeu de paume literally means: game of palm (of the hand). In...
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| x Beach volleyball |
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2008 Summer Olympics | 1992 Summer Olympics | Men's Beach Volleyball |
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played on sand. Like other variations of volleyball, two teams, separated by a high net, try to score points against the other by grounding a ball on the other team's court. Competitive...
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's Beach Volleyball | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
| x Artistic gymnastics |
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1936 Summer Olympics | Women's Gymnastics, team competition |
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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| 1948 Summer Olympics | Men's Parallel bars | ||||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | Men's Gymnastics, individual all-round | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Women's Floor exercises | ||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Women's Uneven bars | ||||
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| x Roque |
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1904 Summer Olympics |
Roque (/ˈroʊk/) is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games.
Roque is...
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| x Trampoline |
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2000 Summer Olympics | Men's trampoline |
A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes. The fabric on which users bounce (commonly known as...
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | Women's trampoline | ||||
| Trampoline at the 2008 Summer Olympics | |||||
