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Parent topics
- Sports [r]: Activities that involve skill and physical exertion, and that are governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. [e]
Subtopics
Summer Olympics Games
Venues
- 1896 Summer Olympics [r]: The I Summer Olympic Games, held in Athens (GRE). [e]
- 1900 Summer Olympics [r]: The II Summer Olympic Games, held in Paris (FRA). [e]
- 1904 Summer Olympics [r]: The III Summer Olympic Games, held in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). [e]
- 1908 Summer Olympics [r]: The IV Summer Olympic Games, held in London, England. [e]
- 1912 Summer Olympics [r]: The V Summer Olympic Games, held in Stockholm (SWE). [e]
- 1920 Summer Olympics [r]: The VII Summer Olympic Games, held in Antwerp (BEL). [e]
- 1924 Summer Olympics [r]: The VIII Summer Olympic Games, held in Paris (FRA). [e]
- 1928 Summer Olympics [r]: The IX Summer Olympic Games, held in Amsterdam (NED). [e]
- 1932 Summer Olympics [r]: The X Summer Olympic Games, held in Los Angeles (USA). [e]
- 1936 Summer Olympics [r]: The XI Summer Olympic Games, held in Berlin (GER). [e]
- 1948 Summer Olympics [r]: The XIV Summer Olympic Games, held in London, England. [e]
- 1952 Summer Olympics [r]: The XV Summer Olympic Games, held in Helsinki (FIN). [e]
- 1956 Summer Olympics [r]: The XVI Summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne (AUS). [e]
- 1960 Summer Olympics [r]: The XVII Summer Olympic Games, held in Rome (ITA). [e]
- 1964 Summer Olympics [r]: The XVIII Summer Olympic Games, held in Tokyo (JPN). [e]
- 1968 Summer Olympics [r]: The XIX Summer Olympic Games, held in Mexico City, Mexico. [e]
- 1972 Summer Olympics [r]: The XX Summer Olympic Games, held in Munich (GER). [e]
- 1976 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXI Summer Olympic Games, held in Montreal (CAN). [e]
- 1980 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXII Summer Olympic Games, held in Moscow (URS). [e]
- 1984 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXIII Summer Olympic Games, held in Los Angeles, California (USA) [e]
- 1988 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXIV Summer Olympic Games, held in Seoul (KOR). [e]
- 1992 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXV Summer Olympic Games, held in Barcelona (ESP). [e]
- 1996 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXVI Summer Olympic Games, held in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). [e]
- 2000 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXVII Summer Olympic Games, held in Sydney (AUS). [e]
- 2004 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXVIII Summer Olympic Games, held in Athens (GRE). [e]
- 2008 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXIX Summer Olympic Games, held in Beijing (CHN). [e]
Sports
- Aquatics [r]: A term for water sports, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronized swimming. [e]
- Archery [r]: An individual sport involving shooting at a target using a bow and arrow. [e]
- Athletics [r]: The collective term for a group of athletic events in walking, running or throwing. [e]
- Badminton [r]: Badminton is an indoor game in which players on opposite sides of a net hit a shuttlecock with wire-strung rackets. [e]
- Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. [e]
- Basketball [r]: A ball game played between two teams of 5 players, the objective of which is to throw the ball through one of a pair of hoops fixed above each end of the playing court. [e]
- Boxing [r]: A combat sport between two opponents in a roped, square ring who attempt to strike each other with fists enclosed in padded gloves. [e]
- Canoe-kayak [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cycling [r]: A racing sport in which individuals or teams compete at riding bicycles. [e]
- Equestrian [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fencing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Association football (soccer) [r]: A sport in which two teams, each consisting of 11 players, compete to move a spherical ball around the playing field and into their opponents' goal; with the exception of the goalkeeper, players may not use their hands or arms to control the ball. [e]
- Gymnastics [r]: An individual, competitive sport involving the performance of acrobatic exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, gracefulness, and kinesthetic awareness. [e]
- Handball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Modern pentathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rowing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sailing [r]: The use of wind to move an object. [e]
- Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Softball [r]: A modified form of baseball, played on a smaller field and using a larger ball which is thrown with an underhanded motion; exists in two forms, slow pitch and fastpitch. [e]
- Table tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Taekwondo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tennis [r]: A sport played on a hard-surfaced rectangular court, between either two players or two teams of two players each, in which the players attempt to strike a hollow rubber ball, using a stringed raquet, over a net into the opponent's half of the court. [e]
- Triathlon [r]: An endurance athletic competition involving running, cycling, and swimming. [e]
- Volleyball [r]: A game consisting of two teams of six players each in which a large ball is struck by hand over a high net with the aim of preventing the opposing team from returning the ball before it strikes the ground. [e]
- Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description
Winter Olympics Games
Venues
- 1924 Winter Olympics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 1928 Winter Olympics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 1932 Winter Olympics [r]: The III Winter Olympic Games, held in Lake Placid, New York (USA). [e]
- 1936 Winter Olympics [r]: The IV Winter Olympic Games, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [e]
- 1948 Winter Olympics [r]: The V Winter Olympic Games, held in St. Moritz, Switzerland. [e]
- 1952 Winter Olympics [r]: The VI Winter Olympic Games, held in Oslo, Norway. [e]
- 1956 Winter Olympics [r]: The VII Winter Olympic Games, held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. [e]
- 1960 Winter Olympics [r]: The VIII Winter Olympic Games, held in Squaw Valley, California (USA). [e]
- 1964 Winter Olympics [r]: The IX Winter Olympic Games, held in Innsbruck, Austria. [e]
- 1968 Winter Olympics [r]: The X Winter Olympic Games, held in Grenoble, France. [e]
- 1972 Winter Olympics [r]: The XI Winter Olympic Games, held in Sapporo, Japan. [e]
- 1976 Winter Olympics [r]: The XII Winter Olympic Games, held in Innsbruck, Austria. [e]
- 1980 Winter Olympics [r]: The XIII Winter Olympic Games, held in Lake Placid, New York (USA). [e]
- 1984 Winter Olympics [r]: The XIV Winter Olympic Games, held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. [e]
- 1988 Winter Olympics [r]: The XV Winter Olympic Games, held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [e]
- 1992 Winter Olympics [r]: The XVI Winter Olympic Games, held in Albertville, France. [e]
- 1994 Winter Olympics [r]: The XVII Winter Olympic Games, held in Lillehammer, Norway. [e]
- 1998 Winter Olympics [r]: The XVIII Winter Olympic Games, held in Nagano, Japan. [e]
- 2002 Winter Olympics [r]: The XIX Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA). [e]
Sports
- Biathlon [r]: An athletic competition combining the sport activities of cross-country, or Nordic, skiing, and rifle shooting. [e]
- Bobsleigh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Curling [r]: A game, invented in Scotland, which involves two teams of four players who slide a heavy stone towards a target at the opposite end of a long, narrow sheet of ice. [e]
- Ice hockey [r]: A game, played on ice, which consists of two teams of six players, each attempting to drive a small hard rubber disc called a puck into their opponent's goal net. [e]
- Luge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
Multi-sport events
- All-Africa Games [r]: A multi-sport event, also known as the Pan African Games is organised by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). It was first held in 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo and occurs every four years [e]
- Ancient Olympic Games [r]: Major athletic contest of ancient Greece. [e]
- Asian Games [r]: A multi-sport event, also called the Asiad, held every four years between competitors from all nations in Asia. The inaugural competition was in 1951 at New Delhi, India. [e]
- Commonwealth Games [r]: A mulit-sport event held every four years, it involves athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. Originally known as the British Empire Games, it was first held in 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [e]
- Gay Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Goodwill Games [r]: A multi-sport event inspired by the Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984. The founder was Ted Turner, and the inaugural event was 1986 in Moscow, Russia. [e]
- Pan American Games [r]: A multi-sport event, held every four years between competitors from all nations of the Americas. The inaugural competition was in 1951 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. [e]
- Paralympic Games [r]: A multi-sport event organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. They are held immediately after the Games, the first official occasion being after the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics. [e]
- Special Olympics [r]: The only organisation recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and able to use the Olympic name. They organise Olympic-style competitions for people with intellectual disabilities. [e]
- World University Games [r]: A multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name is a combination of the words "University" and "Olympiad". The inaugural summer event was in 1959 in Turin, Italy and the winter event was the following year in Chamonix, France. [e]
Organisations
- International Olympic Committee [r]: The organizing committee of the Olympic Games. [e]
- World Anti-Doping Agency [r]: An international, independent agency founded in 1999 to provide testing and evaluation services in the fight against doping in sports. [e]
- Court of Arbitration for Sport [r]: An independent organization founded in 1984 to provide for the settlement of sports related disputes through binding arbitration. [e]
- Pierre de Coubertin [r]: (1863 – 1937) founder of the modern Olympic movement. [e]
Non-sport events
- Chess Olympics [r]: A biannual international chess tournament inspired by the Olympic Games. [e]
- Science Olympics [r]: International championships in science disciplines, with mainly students participating. [e]
Olympic symbols
- Olympic flag [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Olympic emblem [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Olympic theme music [r]: A musical theme used for official ceremonies at Olympic Games. [e]
