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(Redirected from Olympic sport)
The 'Olympic sports' comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The current Olympic program consists of 35 sports with 53 disciplines and more than 400 events — the Summer Olympics include 28 sports with 38 disciplines, and the Winter Olympics include 7 sports with 15 disciplines.[1] Each Olympic sport is represented by a single international governing body, namely an International Federation (IF).[2]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) establishes a hierarchy of sports, disciplines, and events. According to this hierarchy, the Olympic sports can be subdivided into multiple disciplines, which are often assumed to be distinct sports. Examples include swimming and water polo (disciplines of Aquatics, represented by the International Swimming Federation),[3] or figure skating and speed skating (disciplines of Skating, represented by the International Skating Union).[4] In their turn, disciplines can be subdivided into events, for which medals are actually awarded. A sport or discipline is included in the Olympic program if the IOC determines that it is widely practiced around the world, that is, the number of countries that compete in a given sport is the indicator of the sport's prevalence. The IOC's requirements reflect participation in the Olympic Games as well — more stringent toward men (as they are represented in far higher numbers) and Summer sports (as more nations compete in the Summer Olympics). To be able to be competed at the Olympics, for instance, an event must be practiced by men in at least, fifty countries on three continents, and by women in at least thirty-five countries on three continents.
Previous Olympic Games included sports which are no longer present on the current program, like polo and tug of war.[5] These sports, known as "discontinued sports", were later removed either because of lack of interest or absence of an appropriate governing body. Archery and tennis are examples of sports that were competed at the early Games, were eventually dropped by the IOC, but managed to return to the Olympic program (in 1972 and 1988, respectively). Demonstration sports have often been included in the Olympic Games, usually to promote a local sport from the host country or to gauge interest and support for the sport.[6] Such sports, like baseball and curling, were successfully included in the official Olympic program (in 1992 and 1998, respectively).
At the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games, nine sports were contested.[7] Since then, the number of sports contested at the Summer Olympic Games has gradually risen to the current number of twenty-eight. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, however, the number of sports will fall back to twenty-six; in early 2006, the IOC voted on the removal of baseball and softball from the Olympic schedule, in 2012. However, they remain Olympic sports and thus could return to the Olympic program, in 2016.13
In order for a sport or discipline to be in included on the Summer Olympics program (but not necessarily be contested at the Olympics), it must be widely practiced by men in at least seventy-five countries on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries on three continents.
The following sports (or disciplines) are currently on the Summer Olympic Games official program, listed according to the name used by the IOC. From the twenty-eight sports, five consist of multiple disciplines. The numbers in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at the respective Games; a bullet denotes that the sport was contested as a demonstration sport.
The following sports were previously part of the Summer Olympic Games program as official sports, but are no longer on the current program. The numbers in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at the respective Games; a bullet denotes that the sport was contested as a demonstration sport.
Main articles: Demonstration sport
The following sports or disciplines have been demonstrated at the Summer Olympic Games for the years shown, but have ''never'' been included on the official Olympic program:
The Beijing Olympic Committee has received permission to organize a wushu competition, but it will not be considered a demonstration or exhibition sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[8][9]
Before 1924, when the first Winter Olympic Games were celebrated, sports held on ice, like figure skating and ice hockey, were contested at the Summer Olympics. These two sports made their debuts at the 1908 and the 1920 Summer Olympics respectively, but were permanently integrated in the Winter Olympics program in 1924. The ''International Winter Sports Week'', later dubbed the I Olympic Winter Games and retroactively recognized as such by the IOC, consisted of nine sports. The number of sports contested at the Winter Olympics has since been decreased to seven, comprising a total of fifteen disciplines.[10]
A sport or discipline must be widely practiced in at least twenty-five countries on three continents in order to be included on the Winter Olympics program.
The following sports (or disciplines) are currently on the official program of the Winter Olympic Games, listed according to the name used by the IOC. From the seven sports, three consist of multiple disciplines.
The numbers in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at the respective Games (the blue cells indicate that those sports were held at the Summer Games); a bullet denotes that the sport was contested as a demonstration sport. On some occasions, both official medal events and demonstration events were contested in the same sport at the same Games.
The following sports have been demonstrated at the Winter Olympic Games for the years shown, but have ''never'' been included on the official Olympic program:
★ Bandy (1952)
★ Disabled alpine skiing (1984 and 1988)
★ Disabled cross-country skiing (1988)
★ Ice stock sport (1936, 1964)
★ Military patrol (1928, 1936 and 1948) — official skiing event in 1924 but currently considered an event of biathlon in those Games
★ Ski ballet (acroski) — demonstration event of freestyle skiing (1988 and 1992)
★ Skijoring (1928)
★ Sled-dog racing (1932)
★ Speed skiing (1992)
★ Winter pentathlon (1948)
The following sports are not part of the Olympic program, but are ''recognized'' by the IOC.[11] Their respective International Federations (IFs) are responsible for ensuring that the sport's activities follow the Olympic Charter.
A recognized sport may be added to the Olympic program in future Games, by recommendation of the IOC Olympic Programme Commission and a vote by the IOC members. Usually, the sport will appear as a demonstration sport or an event of similar status before being officially promoted.6 On July 11, 2005, the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the Olympic program for 2012,[12] a decision that was reaffirmed on February 9, 2006.[13] Nevertheless, the IOC members rejected their replacement with karate and squash, which were selected from a list that included golf, roller sports and rugby sevens. Recognized sports that are not part of the competition schedule for an Olympic Games, including the following, usually become part of the schedule of the World Games.
★ Air sports
★ Bandy
★ Billiard sports
★ Boules
★ Bowling
★ Bridge
★ Chess
★ DanceSport
★ Golf
★ Karate
★ Korfball
★ Lifesaving
★ Motorcycle sport
★ Mountaineering/
Climbing
★ Netball
★ Orienteering
★ Pelote Basque
★ Polo
★ Powerboating
★ Racquetball
★ Roller sports
★ Rugby
★ Squash
★ Sumo
★ Surfing
★ Tug of war
★ Underwater sports
★ Water skiing
★ Wushu
1. Sports
2. Olympic Sports, Disciplines & Events
3. Aquatics
4. Skating
5. Olympic sports of the past
6. Demonstration Sports at the Olympic Games
7. Athens 1896 - Games of the I Olympiad
8. Wushu to be part of Beijing Olympic Games
9. Rogge says wushu no "Olympic sport" in 2008
10. Charmonix 1924 - Ist Olympic Winter Games
11. Recognised Sports
12. Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote
13. Olympic programme for London 2012 confirmed
★ Olympic Official Reports
★ International Olympic Committee - Sports
★ IOC Olympic Programme Commission
★ International Sports Federations
Archery competition at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. This sport was reintroduced in the Olympic program in 1972.
Tug of war contested at the Saint Louis 1904 Summer Olympics.
Curling was promoted to official Olympic sport at the Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics.
The 'Olympic sports' comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The current Olympic program consists of 35 sports with 53 disciplines and more than 400 events — the Summer Olympics include 28 sports with 38 disciplines, and the Winter Olympics include 7 sports with 15 disciplines.[1] Each Olympic sport is represented by a single international governing body, namely an International Federation (IF).[2]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) establishes a hierarchy of sports, disciplines, and events. According to this hierarchy, the Olympic sports can be subdivided into multiple disciplines, which are often assumed to be distinct sports. Examples include swimming and water polo (disciplines of Aquatics, represented by the International Swimming Federation),[3] or figure skating and speed skating (disciplines of Skating, represented by the International Skating Union).[4] In their turn, disciplines can be subdivided into events, for which medals are actually awarded. A sport or discipline is included in the Olympic program if the IOC determines that it is widely practiced around the world, that is, the number of countries that compete in a given sport is the indicator of the sport's prevalence. The IOC's requirements reflect participation in the Olympic Games as well — more stringent toward men (as they are represented in far higher numbers) and Summer sports (as more nations compete in the Summer Olympics). To be able to be competed at the Olympics, for instance, an event must be practiced by men in at least, fifty countries on three continents, and by women in at least thirty-five countries on three continents.
Previous Olympic Games included sports which are no longer present on the current program, like polo and tug of war.[5] These sports, known as "discontinued sports", were later removed either because of lack of interest or absence of an appropriate governing body. Archery and tennis are examples of sports that were competed at the early Games, were eventually dropped by the IOC, but managed to return to the Olympic program (in 1972 and 1988, respectively). Demonstration sports have often been included in the Olympic Games, usually to promote a local sport from the host country or to gauge interest and support for the sport.[6] Such sports, like baseball and curling, were successfully included in the official Olympic program (in 1992 and 1998, respectively).
| Contents |
| Summer Olympic Games |
| Current program |
| Discontinued sports |
| Demonstration sports |
| Winter Olympic Games |
| Current program |
| Demonstration sports |
| Recognized sports |
| References |
| External links |
Summer Olympic Games
At the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic Games, nine sports were contested.[7] Since then, the number of sports contested at the Summer Olympic Games has gradually risen to the current number of twenty-eight. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, however, the number of sports will fall back to twenty-six; in early 2006, the IOC voted on the removal of baseball and softball from the Olympic schedule, in 2012. However, they remain Olympic sports and thus could return to the Olympic program, in 2016.13
In order for a sport or discipline to be in included on the Summer Olympics program (but not necessarily be contested at the Olympics), it must be widely practiced by men in at least seventy-five countries on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries on three continents.
Current program
The following sports (or disciplines) are currently on the Summer Olympic Games official program, listed according to the name used by the IOC. From the twenty-eight sports, five consist of multiple disciplines. The numbers in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at the respective Games; a bullet denotes that the sport was contested as a demonstration sport.
| Sport (Discipline) | 96 | 00 | 04 | ''06'' | 08 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 'A q u a t i c s' | Diving |  | 2 | ''1'' | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | ||
| Swimming |  | 4 | 7 | 9 | ''4'' | 6 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 29 | 29 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 34 | |
| Synchronized swimming |  | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Water polo |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Archery |  | 6 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Athletics (track and field) |  | 12 | 23 | 25 | ''21'' | 26 | 30 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 36 | 36 | 38 | 37 | 38 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 46 | 46 | 47 | |
| Badminton |  | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baseball |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basketball |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Boxing |  | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | |||||
| 'C a n o e i n g' | Flatwater | .png){kind=small} | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Slalom | .png){kind=small} | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 'C y c l i n g' | BMX | .png){kind=small} | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mountain biking | .png){kind=small} | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Road | .png){kind=small} | 1 | ''1'' | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Track | .png){kind=small} | 5 | 2 | 7 | ''5'' | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 10 | ||
| Equestrian |  | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Fencing |  | 3 | 7 | 5 | ''8'' | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Field hockey |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Football (soccer) |  | 1 | 1 | ''1'' | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 'G y m n a s t i c s' | Artistic | .png){kind=small} | 8 | 1 | 11 | ''4'' | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| Rhythmic | .png){kind=small} | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Trampoline | .png){kind=small} | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handball |  | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Judo |  | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Modern pentathlon |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Rowing |  | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | ||
| Sailing |  | 10 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| Shooting |  | 5 | 9 | ''16'' | 15 | 18 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 15 | |||
| Softball |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Table tennis |  | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taekwondo |  | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tennis |  | 2 | 4 | 2 | ''4'' | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Triathlon |  | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 'V o l l e y b a l l' | Beach | .png){kind=small} | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indoor | .png){kind=small} | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Weightlifting |  | 2 | 2 | ''2'' | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 | ||||
| Wrestling |  | 1 | 8 | ''4'' | 10 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 18 | 18 | ||
| Total events | 43 | 89 | 96 | ''78'' | 110 | 102 | 156 | 126 | 109 | 116 | 129 | 136 | 149 | 151 | 150 | 163 | 172 | 195 | 198 | 203 | 221 | 237 | 257 | 271 | 300 | 301 | 302 | ||
Discontinued sports
The following sports were previously part of the Summer Olympic Games program as official sports, but are no longer on the current program. The numbers in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at the respective Games; a bullet denotes that the sport was contested as a demonstration sport.
| Sport | 96 | 00 | 04 | ''06'' | 08 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basque pelota |  | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cricket |  | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Croquet |  | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Figure skating |  | 4 | 3 | ''included in the Winter Olympic Games program'' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Golf |  | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ice hockey |  | 1 | ''included in the Winter Olympic Games program'' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jeu de paume |  | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lacrosse |  | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Polo |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rackets |  | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roque |  | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tug of war |  | 1 | 1 | ''1'' | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Water motorsports |  | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Demonstration sports
Main articles: Demonstration sport
The following sports or disciplines have been demonstrated at the Summer Olympic Games for the years shown, but have ''never'' been included on the official Olympic program:
★ American football (1904 and 1932) ★ Australian rules football (1956) ★ Ballooning (1900) ★ Bowling (1988) ★ Boules (1900) ★ Budo (1964) ★ Field handball (1952) ★ Finnish baseball (1952) | ★ Glima (1912) ★ Gliding (1936) ★ Kaatsen (1928) ★ Korfball (1920 and 1928) ★ La canne (1924) ★ Lifesaving (1900) ★ Longue paume (1900) ★ Motorsport (1900) | ★ Roller hockey (1992) ★ Sambo (1980) ★ Savate (1924) ★ Swedish (Ling) gymnastics (1948) ★ Weight training with dumbbells (1904) ★ Water skiing (1972) |
The Beijing Olympic Committee has received permission to organize a wushu competition, but it will not be considered a demonstration or exhibition sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[8][9]
Winter Olympic Games
Before 1924, when the first Winter Olympic Games were celebrated, sports held on ice, like figure skating and ice hockey, were contested at the Summer Olympics. These two sports made their debuts at the 1908 and the 1920 Summer Olympics respectively, but were permanently integrated in the Winter Olympics program in 1924. The ''International Winter Sports Week'', later dubbed the I Olympic Winter Games and retroactively recognized as such by the IOC, consisted of nine sports. The number of sports contested at the Winter Olympics has since been decreased to seven, comprising a total of fifteen disciplines.[10]
A sport or discipline must be widely practiced in at least twenty-five countries on three continents in order to be included on the Winter Olympics program.
Current program
The following sports (or disciplines) are currently on the official program of the Winter Olympic Games, listed according to the name used by the IOC. From the seven sports, three consist of multiple disciplines.
The numbers in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at the respective Games (the blue cells indicate that those sports were held at the Summer Games); a bullet denotes that the sport was contested as a demonstration sport. On some occasions, both official medal events and demonstration events were contested in the same sport at the same Games.
| Sport (Discipline) | ''08'' | ''20'' | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biathlon |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | |||||||||
| 'B o b s l e i g h' | Bobsleigh |  | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Skeleton |  | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Curling |  | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ice hockey | | ''1'' | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Luge |  | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 'S k a t i n g' | Figure skating | | ''4'' | ''3'' | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Short track speed skating |  | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Speed skating |  | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | |||
| 'S k i i n g' | Alpine skiing |  | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Cross country skiing |  | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | |||
| Freestyle skiing |  | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nordic combined |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Ski jumping |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Snowboarding |  | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total events | 16 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 27 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 46 | 57 | 61 | 68 | 78 | 84 | ||||
Demonstration sports
The following sports have been demonstrated at the Winter Olympic Games for the years shown, but have ''never'' been included on the official Olympic program:
★ Bandy (1952)
★ Disabled alpine skiing (1984 and 1988)
★ Disabled cross-country skiing (1988)
★ Ice stock sport (1936, 1964)
★ Military patrol (1928, 1936 and 1948) — official skiing event in 1924 but currently considered an event of biathlon in those Games
★ Ski ballet (acroski) — demonstration event of freestyle skiing (1988 and 1992)
★ Skijoring (1928)
★ Sled-dog racing (1932)
★ Speed skiing (1992)
★ Winter pentathlon (1948)
Recognized sports
The following sports are not part of the Olympic program, but are ''recognized'' by the IOC.[11] Their respective International Federations (IFs) are responsible for ensuring that the sport's activities follow the Olympic Charter.
A recognized sport may be added to the Olympic program in future Games, by recommendation of the IOC Olympic Programme Commission and a vote by the IOC members. Usually, the sport will appear as a demonstration sport or an event of similar status before being officially promoted.6 On July 11, 2005, the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the Olympic program for 2012,[12] a decision that was reaffirmed on February 9, 2006.[13] Nevertheless, the IOC members rejected their replacement with karate and squash, which were selected from a list that included golf, roller sports and rugby sevens. Recognized sports that are not part of the competition schedule for an Olympic Games, including the following, usually become part of the schedule of the World Games.
★ Air sports
★ Bandy
★ Billiard sports
★ Boules
★ Bowling
★ Bridge
★ Chess
★ DanceSport
★ Golf
★ Karate
★ Korfball
★ Lifesaving
★ Motorcycle sport
★ Mountaineering/
Climbing
★ Netball
★ Orienteering
★ Pelote Basque
★ Polo
★ Powerboating
★ Racquetball
★ Roller sports
★ Rugby
★ Squash
★ Sumo
★ Surfing
★ Tug of war
★ Underwater sports
★ Water skiing
★ Wushu
References
1. Sports
2. Olympic Sports, Disciplines & Events
3. Aquatics
4. Skating
5. Olympic sports of the past
6. Demonstration Sports at the Olympic Games
7. Athens 1896 - Games of the I Olympiad
8. Wushu to be part of Beijing Olympic Games
9. Rogge says wushu no "Olympic sport" in 2008
10. Charmonix 1924 - Ist Olympic Winter Games
11. Recognised Sports
12. Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote
13. Olympic programme for London 2012 confirmed
External links
★ Olympic Official Reports
★ International Olympic Committee - Sports
★ IOC Olympic Programme Commission
★ International Sports Federations
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