List of Olympic competitionsThe Olympic events were divided into three levels: Sport, discipline, and event. As of 2023, the data showed that there were 40 sports in the Olympic Games, including 32 sports in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and 8 sports in the 2026 Milan Cortana Winter Olympics. The specific events included water sports, archery, track and field, volleyball, basketball, boxing, breakdancing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, archery, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, field lacrosse, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, football, sailing, shooting, skateboarding, sports rock climbing, surfing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, biathlon, snowmobile, curling, ice skating, snow climbing, and snowboarding.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games had 28 major events, including track and field, rowing, baseball, softball, basketball, football, boxing, canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field basketball, judo, water sports, modern pentathlon, equestrian, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing, windsurfing, and volleyball. Some of the events didn't have sub-categories. The most sub-categories in the Summer Olympics were swimming (including competitive swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, diving, and open water swimming), and track and field had 47 events (24 for men and 23 for women). In the 2012 London Olympics, baseball and softball were removed from the Olympic Games. On February 12, 2013, the International Olympic Committee decided to remove wrestling from the existing 26 major events of the Olympic Games. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, golf was listed as an Olympic event.
The 2024 Paris Olympics retained the classic events such as track and field, swimming, basketball, and football, but added rock climbing, break-dance skateboarding, and surfing. The number of events included in some of the events were as follows: baseball included one event, weightlifting included fifteen events, sailing included eleven events, fencing included ten events, basketball included two events, softball included one event, equestrian included three events and six events, volleyball included two events and four events, canoeing included two events and sixteen events, ice skating included four events, field lacrosse included two events, and boxing included eleven events. Judo consisted of fourteen events, shooting consisted of fifteen events, archery consisted of four events, handball consisted of two events, wrestling consisted of two sub-events and eighteen events, taekwondo consisted of eight events, gymnastics consisted of three sub-events and eighteen events, track and field consisted of forty-seven events, triathlon consisted of two events, tennis consisted of four events, modern Pentathlon consisted of two events, swimming consisted of four sub-events and forty-six events, and volleyball consisted of five events. Cycling had three sub-categories and eighteen sub-categories; football had two sub-categories; rock climbing had three sub-categories; surfing had two sub-categories; skateboarding had two sub-categories and two sub-categories; and breakdancing had two sub-categories. While watching the Olympics, you can also read the wonderful novels related to the Olympics!