Many competitions of the Olympics are
carried out now, but I think that there are few people who know about its
number and kind in detail. So, I want to explain a kind and the number of
Olympics sports.
As
for the Olympic event, more than 400 items, 33 competitions, 51 classifications
are included in Olympics program as of 2011. Of these, 7 competitions, 15 classifications
are included in Winter Olympics. 26 competitions, 36 classifications are
included in Summer Olympics. Olympic Charter prescribes competition that are
supervised in 35 International Sports Federation as ‘’Olympic event’’.
Plural classifications supervised by the
same International Sports Federation are included in some sporting events.
However, these classifications may be generally considered to be a different
sporting event. For example, it includes a swimming race and water polo and
diving and synchronized swimming (classification of the swimming), gymnastics
and rhythmic gymnastics and a trampoline (classification of exercises), a track
race and a road race and a mountain bike race and bicycle motocross
(classification of the bicycle race), figure skating and speed skating
(classification of the skating). In addition, like polo and a tug of war, it was
carried out in a past Olympics, but the competition that is not carried out
exists now. Like archery and tennis, it was carried out in an early Olympic,
but It was called off once, and there is the competitions which returned to as
an Olympic event again.
In the Olympic, the local sports of the
host country and popular sports were often carried out as demonstration
competition. In these competitions, there is the competitions that are promoted to
an official competition like baseball and curling later. From the Stockholm
Olympics, there was an art competition to compete in a sculpture, poetry and a
picture or music. But because it was hard to mark, it became only the display from the Melbourne
Olympics.