Olympic Games/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Sports [r]: Activity that involves skill and physical exertion, and is governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. ^[e]

Subtopics

• 2000 Summer Olympics [r]: The XXVII Summer Olympic Games, held in Sydney (AUS). ^[e]
• 2002 Winter Olympics [r]: The XIX Winter Olympic Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA). ^[e]

Other related topics

• International Olympic Committee [r]: The organizing committee of the Olympic Games. ^[e]
• Aquatics [r]: A term for water sports taking place in the water, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming. ^[e]
• Archery [r]: An individual sport involving shooting at a target using a bow and arrow. ^[e]
• Athletics [r]: The collective term for a group of athletic events in walking, running, jumping or throwing. ^[e]
• Badminton [r]: An indoor game in which players on opposite sides of a net hit a shuttlecock with wire-strung racquets. ^[e]
• Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. ^[e]
• Basketball [r]: A ball game played between two teams of 5 players, the objective of which is to throw the ball through one of a pair of hoops fixed above each end of the playing court. ^[e]
• Boxing [r]: A combat sport between two opponents in a roped, square ring who attempt to strike each other with fists enclosed in padded gloves. ^[e]
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• Cycling [r]: The sport, recreational activity and means of transportation of riding a bicycle. ^[e]
• Equestrian [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fencing [r]: A sport of fighting with blunted swords in accordance with set rules in order to score points. ^[e]
• Football [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Football (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Gymnastics [r]: An individual, competitive sport involving the performance of acrobatic exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, gracefulness, and kinesthetic awareness. ^[e]
• Handball [r]: A game consisting of two teams of seven players each in which a ball is passed by hand with the aim of scoring points by throwing the ball into each other's goal. ^[e]
• Hockey [r]: Generic term for various sports in which a ball or puck is hit about a playing surface by teams of players with curved sticks whose aim is to score the most goals in the match. The main variants are field hockey and ice hockey. ^[e]
• Judo [r]: An unarmed combat sport of Japanese origin in which a contestant uses holds and leverage to unbalance their opponent. ^[e]
• Modern pentathlon [r]: A multi-discipline sport designed for the Olympic Games. ^[e]
• Rowing [r]: Both an Olympic-level sport and the act of manually propelling a small boat by using oars. ^[e]
• Sailing [r]: Craft propulsion by means of the wind acting upon a hoisted sail. ^[e]
• Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Softball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Table tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Taekwondo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Triathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Volleyball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description