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Broomball is a both a recreational and organized competitive winter and ball sport played on ice or snow. It is played either indoors or outdoors, depending on the climate and location. [1] It is most popularly played in Canada and the United States. Unlike most winter team sports played on ice, organized broomball does not use ice skates ...
Curling at the Youth Olympic Games 2012 Curling pictogram. Curling has been a medal sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics. It currently includes men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournaments (the mixed doubles event was held for the first time in 2018). [28]
The following sports (or disciplines of a sport) make up the current and discontinued Winter Youth Olympic Games official program and are listed alphabetically according to the name used by the IOC. The discontinued sports were previously part of the Winter Youth Olympic Games program as official sports, but are no longer on the current program.
The International Olympic Committee's revenue-sharing model doesn't hurt either—after the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, the IOC distributed nearly $523 million to the international federations ...
Ice hockey was introduced at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2012 for both boys and girls. For the 2012 and 2016 editions a 5-on-5 team competition and an individual skills challenge were open to both genders. In 2020, the skills challenge was replaced by a mixed-NOC 3-on-3 tournament.
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The sport was finally added to the official program for the 1998 Games in Nagano. Until 2018, only men's and women's events were contested. An additional event, mixed doubles , was rejected for 2010 because the Olympic Programme Commission felt it had not developed enough, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] but was approved for the 2018 Winter Olympics at an IOC ...
T he sport of breaking—competitive breakdancing—will make its Olympic debut in Paris. Yes, breaking has come a long way from an early-‘80s pop-culture fad that seemed to go the way of the ...