Olympic Sports

The Olympic Sport S gather all the disciplines with the program of the Olympic Games of summer and winter . Current the Olympic program is composed of 35 sports, 53 disciplines and more than 400 tests. The Olympic Games of summer include/understand 28 sports (and 38 disciplines) and those of winter 7 sports (and 15 disciplines).

Each Olympic sport depends on its Official Authority, namely a International federation.

The International Olympic committee (CIO) establishes a hierarchy of the sports, disciplines, and tests. According to this hierarchy, the Olympic sport can be subdivided in several disciplines, which are often supposed to be distinct from the sports. For example, the Swimming and the Water polo (disciplines of swimming, represented by the International federation of swimming), or the Figure skating and the Speed skating (disciplines of ice-skating, represented by the International union of ice-skating).

A sport or a discipline is included in the Olympic program, if CIO decides that it is largely practiced in the world. Indeed, a discipline will have to be practiced by the men in at least fifty countries and out of three continents, and by the women in at least thirty-five countries distributed on three continents.

Certain sports were withdrawn from the Olympic program, following the example Polo or Tir with the cord. Others such as the Shooting with the arc or the Tennis were abandoned at the beginning of the plays but reintroduced in the program Olympic several years afterwards.

Sports of demonstration often were included in the Olympic Games in order to measure their interest and their supports, but also in order to promote a local sport of the organizing country. Some of these disciplines were recognized official thereafter, like the Baseball in 1992 or the Curling in 1998.

Olympic Games of summer

Current disciplines

Below figure the list of the various sporting disciplines for which were organized official Olympic competitions (of which the number is indicated) or of international competitions of demonstration (indicated by a point), during the various Olympiads of summer. Three of them (the “disciplines queens”) were the object of official competitions during all the Olympiads of summer: athletics, swimming and the artistic gymnastics.

The number of Olympic sports concerned with an international federation is of 28 with regard to the Olympic Games of summer of 2008:

  • Athletics, oar, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxes English, equestrian canoe-kayak, cycling, sports, fencing, football, gymnastics, haltérophilie, handball, field hockey, judo, fight, swimming, modern pentathlon, softball, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, shooting with the arc, triathlon, veil, volley ball.

With the Olympic Games of summer of 2012, Baseball and Softball were excluded from the list of the Olympic sports, reducing to 26 the number of disciplines.

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  • 1: The horsemanship includes/understands the tests of Dressage, complete Concours and Saut of obstacles.

Old disciplines

Sports of demonstration

These disciplines were Sport S of demonstration at the time of the Olympic Games of summer but were never included definitively in the official program of the International Olympic committee.

Winter Olympics

Current disciplines

The following disciplines appear in the current program of the Winter Olympics. Are indicated the number of tests disputed for each Olympiade, as well as the sports of demonstration (points). On blue bottom, are mentioned the tests disputed at the time of the Olympic Games of summer.

Sports of demonstration

Recognized sports

These sports are recognized by the CIO (International Olympic committee) but are not with the program of the Plays.

Sports paralympic

Sports of summer

Winter sports

References

  • official Olympic Reports/ratios on the site aafla.org
  • Official site of the International Olympic committee
  • International federations in International sport

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