The Summer Olympics are just around the corner, and we’re all looking forward to cheering on our favorite athletes! But have you ever wondered how many sports are actually played in the Summer Olympics? We did some research and found out that there are a whopping 34 sports that will be featured in this year’s games!
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Track and Field
There are a total of 35 sports that are played in the Summer Olympics. Track and field is one of them. It is also one of the most popular sports in the Olympics, with many people tuning in to watch the events. Track and field has been a part of the Olympics since the very first games in 1896.
Swimming
The Summer Olympics features a total of 33 sports and a staggering 10,500 athletes from 206 countries competing in 300 events. The sporting lineup for the Summer Olympics has changed considerably since the first modern games in Athens in 1896. New sports are added every four years, while others are dropped, depending on popularity and interest.
One of the most popular summer sports is swimming. A total of 34 swimming events are contested at the Summer Olympics, including both individual and team competitions. Swimming was first added to the Olympic lineup in 1896 and has been a regular sport ever since.
Other popular summer sports include track and field, gymnastics, tennis, basketball, and soccer. These sports have been part of the Summer Olympics for many years and continue to be some of the most popular events with both athletes and fans.
Diving
Diving has been an Olympic sport since the 1904 Summer Olympics, and was included in the first modern Olympic games in Athens. Women’s diving debuted at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. A total of seven competitions are held: two each for both men and women in both platform and springboard diving. The springboard and platform events are identical for men and women, with each diver performing five dives: three compulsory dives and two voluntary dives (attempting a total of ten dives). Men dive from both the 10 meter and 3 meter heights, while women only dive from the 10 meter height (springboard) or 5 meter height (platform).
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. In its most prominent form, gymnastics originated in ancient Greece, and was practiced by male athletes during the Olympic Games. Gymnastics now includes activities performed on floor, vault, beam, and horizontal bar. Competitive artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic sports. It typically involves the women’s events of floor exercise, vault, beam, and uneven bars.
Soccer
It is also known as football, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world with over four billion fans.
Basketball
Basketball is one of the sports played in the Summer Olympics. It was first included in the 1936 Olympics, and has been played in every Summer Olympics since then.
Boxing
Boxing has been a part of the Summer Olympics since 1904, and is one of the most popular sports at the games. There are three weight classes for men, and two for women. Men box in the following weight classes:
-Lightweight (up to 60 kg)
-Middleweight (up to 75 kg)
-Heavyweight (over 75 kg)
Women box in the following weight classes:
-Lightweight (up to 51 kg)
-Middleweight (up to 60 kg)
Tennis
Tennis is one of the sports that is played in the Summer Olympics. It was first introduced in the 1896 Summer Olympics, and has been played in every Summer Olympics since then, with the exception of 1904 and 1988.
Golf
Golf was first played in the Summer Olympics in 1904, and then again in 1900 and 1908. It was dropped from the 1912 Games, but returned in 2016.
Volleyball
Volleyball has been part of the Summer Olympics since 1964. It is one of the most popular sports in the world, with an estimated 250 million people playing worldwide. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players try to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court.
