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Pages in category "Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
At the Summer Olympics, there have been eight Olympic sports that have been discontinued.. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, long-discontinued sports in golf (last competed in 1904) and rugby (last competed in 1924) were reinstated as Olympic sports, though rugby was as rugby sevens (having previously been rugby union).
Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics included 32 sports; [ 1 ] the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Each Olympic sport is represented at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by an international governing body called an ...
As Paris passes the torch to Los Angeles as the host of the 2028 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has already adjusted the event schedule. In 2023, the IOC approved ...
The news that breaking wouldn't be included in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles was actually announced a few years ago. In 2022, the International Olympic Committee announced which 28 sports had ...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld the IOC decision to remove the International Boxing Association from the Olympic family. The court announced Tuesday that it dismissed the IBA appeal ...
After the 1920 Games, the International Olympic Committee decided to streamline the Olympic program to manage the number of sports and participants. As part of this effort, Tug of War and several other sports were removed from the Olympic program in the following years. [3]
Softball was on the Olympic program from 1996 to 2008. It was introduced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was removed from the program for 2012 and 2016, but was added for a one-off appearance, along with baseball, for the 2020 Summer Olympics (which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).