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Olympic sport and Summer and Winter Olympics coverage on ESPN.com. ... Summer Sports; Winter Sports; Olympics.com Paris 2024; Quick Links. Team USA Medals 2022. Team USA Medals 2020.
Aug 4, 2016 · 16 crazy Olympic sports that actually exist. August 4, ... Steeplechase--which debuted at the 1900 summer Olympics--is the longest track-and-field race involving obstacles. The main obstacle of ...
Venezuela. Silver. patricia mamona. Portugal. Bronze. ana peleteiro. Spain. Official Athletics results from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments.
Olympic Games. The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports ...
The modern pentathlon is the successor to the ancient pentathlon, which comprised running, jumping, javelin, discus and wrestling. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ancient Games. He proposed a similar competition that would test the strengths of a “complete” athlete ...
Several sports on the Olympic programme for Paris 2024 first featured as demonstration sports, including canoe at Paris 1924, handball (field) in 1952, badminton at Munich 1972, women’s judo at Seoul 1988, taekwondo at Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992, and tennis at both Mexico 1968 and Los Angeles 1984.
Jan 11, 2011 · The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are an elite sporting event for young people aged from 15 to 18 from all over the world. The sports programme is mainly based on that of the Olympic Games. In addition, it includes exciting new sports, disciplines and formats, such as breaking, sport climbing, 3-x-3 basketball, 3-x-3 ice hockey and mixed gender and ...
