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Sports List Of Olympic Games: The 2024 Paris Olympics promises to be a great spectacle with a varied range of sports showcasing the best athletic talent from across the world. Here's a detailed look at the numerous sports that will compete at this famous event.

The Paris 2024 will feature 329 medal events in 32 different sports. These sports include a wide variety of disciplines, from old favourites like athletics, swimming, and gymnastics to more recent additions like sport climbing and skateboarding. Individual precision sports such as archery and shooting will coexist with traditional team sports likeas football, basketball, and hockey. 

List of 2024 Summer Olympic Sports:

1 . Archery: Archery, which requires precision and concentration, has been a staple of the Olympics since 1900. Athletes participate both individually and in teams, aiming for the objective from a distance of 70 meters.

2 . Aquatics: Swimming, diving, open water, synchronized swimming, and water polo are all examples of aquatic sports. Aquatics refers to a category of sports that involve activities in or on water.

3 . Badminton: Badminton is a fast-paced racquet sport that includes singles and doubles events. Players use lightweight rackets to hit a shuttlecock over a net, attempting to outmanoeuvre their opponents.

4 . Basketball: Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players compete to score points by shooting a ball through the opposing basket. The Olympics also include 3x3 basketball, which is a faster-paced version played on a half-court with three players per team.

5 . Boxing: Olympic boxing has weight categories for men and women, and contestants strive to collect points with blows while following rigorous rules of conduct.

6 . Breaking: Often known as breakdancing, is a street dance style that combines athleticism, innovation, and dance routines. It will make its Olympic debut in Paris 2024.

7 . Canoe Slalom and Sprint: In slalom, racers navigate a whitewater course, whilst sprinters compete over calm water distances of 200m, 500m, or 1000m.

8 . Cycling: The Olympics feature a variety of cycling disciplines, including BMX freestyle and racing, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling, all of which need distinct abilities and endurance.

9 . Equestrian: Dressage, eventing, and jumping are all disciplines of equestrian sport. It is unusual because it involves a human-animal interaction that requires harmony between the horse and the rider.

10 . Fencing: Fencing is a combat sport that includes three disciplines: foil, épée, and sabre, each with its own set of regulations and target regions.

11 . Football: A highly popular team sport, football, played between two teams of eleven players to score a goal by getting the ball into the opposing team's net. It is also one of the few sports in the Games where the tournament begins before the opening ceremony due to the number of matches.

12 . Golf: Golf returned to the Olympics in 2016 after a long absence, with participants participating over 72 holes in a stroke play style.

13 . Gymnastics (artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline): Gymnastics is a sport in which athletes must demonstrate physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance, and grace.

14 . Handball: Handball is a team sport in which participants attempt to hurl a ball into the opposing goal, incorporating aspects of soccer and basketball.

15 . Hockey: Field hockey consists of eleven-player teams attempting to score by hitting a ball into the opposing team's goal with curved sticks.

16 . Judo: Judo is a martial art that focuses on throws and grappling. It stresses technique and leverage.

17 . Modern Pentathlon is a multi-sport event that combines fencing, swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross-country running.

18 . Rowing: Athletes race boats on water, using oars to push themselves over various distances in singles, doubles, and team competitions.

19 . Rugby Sevens: Rugby Sevens is a faster-paced version of rugby union with seven players per team, recognized for its speed and high scoring.

20 . Sailing: This sport tests sailors' ability to manoeuvre boats utilizing wind force in a variety of classes and configurations.

21 . Shooting: Competitors use rifles and pistols to hit targets at predetermined distances, which tests precision and control.

22 . Skateboarding is a street sport in which tricks and jumps are judged based on difficulty and execution.

23 . Sport Climbing: This new feature involves climbing a fixed route on a vertical wall to measure speed, strength, and strategy.

24 . Surfing: Athletes compete on surfboards based on their skill, style, and move execution.

25 . Table tennis is a fast-paced sport in which participants use paddles to strike a lightweight ball over a table separated by a net.

26 . Taekwondo is a Korean martial art that focuses on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and quick kicking techniques.

27 . Tennis is a racket sport with singles and doubles competitions played on a variety of surfaces, including clay, grass, and hard courts.

28 . Track and field, sometimes known as athletics, includes a number of sports events that involve running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

29 . Triathlon is a multi-discipline event that involves swimming, cycling, and running to evaluate endurance and versatility.

30 . Volleyball is a team sport that is played both indoors and on the beach, with the goal of grounding the ball on the opposing courts.

31 . Weightlifting: Athletes compete to lift the biggest weights in two styles: snatch and clean and jerk.

32 . Wrestling is a combat sport with two disciplines—freestyle and Greco-Roman—in which athletes attempt to pin their opponents or score points through holds and tricks.

List Of Recently Removed Sports In Olympic Games:

1 . Karate

2 . Baseball

3 . Softball

List Of Possible New Sports In Olympic Games:

1 . Breaking

2 . Skateboarding

3 . Sport climbing

4 . Surfing

 

List Of Ancient Olympic Games:

 

The ancient Games contained running, long jump, shot put, javelin, boxing, pankration and equestrian events.

 

1 . Pentathlon 

2 . Running

3 . Jumping

4 . Dicus throw

5 . Wrestling

6 . Boxing

7 . Pankration

8 . Equestrian events.