Sports
Paris 2024 Sports
The current Olympic program includes a road race and an individual time trial for men and women. All are one-day…
There are six different track cycling events on the Olympic program, all of which have men’s and women’s events.
Olympic diving uses two types of boards: 3m springboard and 10m platform. There are individual and synchronized events for both…
Sometimes described as horse ballet, dressage actually has its roots in the way Greeks prepared their horses for war more…
Comprised of three forms of competition – dressage, cross-country, jumping – eventing is considered the supreme test of total horsemanship.
Arguably the best known of the equestrian disciplines, jumping (sometimes called show jumping) features highly technical courses with a series…
Summer Olympic Sports
There are four specialties of mountain bike, but only cross-country was added to the Olympic program at Atlanta 1996.
The current Olympic program includes a road race and an individual time trial for men and women. All are one-day…
There are six different track cycling events on the Olympic program, all of which have men’s and women’s events.
Olympic diving uses two types of boards: 3m springboard and 10m platform. There are individual and synchronized events for both…
Sometimes described as horse ballet, dressage actually has its roots in the way Greeks prepared their horses for war more…
Comprised of three forms of competition – dressage, cross-country, jumping – eventing is considered the supreme test of total horsemanship.
Winter Olympic Sports
Ski mountaineering (or skimo as a common shortform) combines uphill and downhill skiing with mountaineering skills.
There are five individual Olympic snowboard events for each gender, each featuring athletes riding similar shaped boards. But while some…
Long track speed skating is considered the fastest human-powered sport in the Olympic Games, with skaters reaching speeds of more…
Short track speed skating takes place on a 111.12m oval which is marked on an international-sized ice rink. There are…