The Number of Different Sports in the 2024 Olympics
By Jayson Panganiban February 12, 2024 21:42
Photo By Getty | Lionel Bonaventure
The 2024 Summer Olympics, scheduled to be held in Paris, will feature a total of 32 different sports, encompassing 329 events. Here's a detailed breakdown of the different sports included in the 2024 Olympics:
Core and Optional Sports
- The program of the Summer Olympics consists of 28 mandatory "core" sports that persist between Games and a maximum of six optional sports that can be added for each edition of the Games.
Paris 2024 New Sports
- In February 2019, the Paris Organising Committee proposed the inclusion of breakdancing (breaking), along with skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing as optional sports.
- All four additional sports were approved during the 134th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 June 2019.
- Breakdancing will be the only sport making its debut in the 2024 Olympics.
- The sports of breakdancing, sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing were confirmed as additional sports on the Paris Olympic Games program, making a total of 32 sports encompassing 329 events.
Breakdown of Sports
- Aquatics (including swimming, diving, open-water, synchronized swimming, and water polo)
- Archery
- Badminton
- Basketball (including 3x3 basketball)
- Boxing
- Canoe / Kayak (including Sprint and Slalom)
- Cycling (including Track, Road, Mountain Bike, and BMX)
- Equestrian (Eventing, Dressage, Jumping)
- Fencing
- Football (Soccer)
- Golf
- Gymnastics (Artistic, Rhythmic, Trampolining)
- Handball
- Hockey
- Judo
- Modern Pentathlon
- Rowing
- Rugby 7s
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Skateboarding
- Sport Climbing
- Surfing
- Table Tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Triathlon
- Volleyball (including indoor and beach volleyball)
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling (Greco-Roman and Freestyle)
Changes from Previous Olympics
- The disciplines of karate and baseball/softball have been removed from the program since 2020, resulting in a loss of 10 events in total.
- Four events have been dropped from the weightlifting discipline.
- In canoeing, two sprint events have been replaced with two slalom events, keeping the overall total at 16.
- Introduced as a new discipline, breaking has added two events to the program.
- In sport climbing, the previous "combined" event has been split up to create the separate events of "speed climbing" and "boulder-and-lead" for each gender.
Gender Equality and Athlete Quotas
- For the first time, there will be 100% gender equality in athlete quotas in the 2024 Olympics.
The 2024 Olympics in Paris will feature 32 different sports, showcasing a diverse range of athletic competitions to be enjoyed by the global audience.
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