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Badminton

Badminton

Badminton is the world’s fastest racquet sport where players compete to hit a shuttlecock back and forth over a high net. The record for the fastest smash currentl...

Water Polo

Water Polo

Water polo is a highly physical team sport in which the players of each squad try to score as many goals against the opposition as they can, while preventing their rival...

Hockey

Hockey

A game consists of two 35-minute periods, with a 10 minute interval for half-time.

There are 12 teams of 16 players which are placed into two pools of six for th...

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is played by two teams, made up of five players and seven substitutes. The aim of the game for each team is to get the ball into the elevated baskets at eithe...

Rowing

Rowing

Rowing is one of Britain’s most successful Olympic sports winning 24 gold, 20 silver and 10 bronze medals in the history of the Olympic Games up to and including B...

Fencing

Fencing

Fencing is a combat sport using three blade weapons: foil, sabre and epee.  It is one of only four sports that have featured at every modern Olympic Games.  Fe...

Synchronised Swimming

Synchronised
Swimming

Synchronised swimming is often described as ‘water ballet’, because of the dance-like movements swimmers make to music, and its theatrical character. Even th...

Cycling Track

Cycling Track

In comparison to road racing and mountain biking, track cycling is an incredibly specialised indoor event, with a number of disciplines that place as much emphasis on st...

Swimming

Swimming

Swimming is a hugely physical and demanding sport, with athletes competing over distances from 50m to 1,500m in the pool. Swimmers need huge strength and stamina to...

Cycling BMX

Cycling BMX

Bicycle moto cross (BMX) has caught the spirit of a generation as BMX bikes swept across Europe and the USA. As part of the extreme sports hungry generation, BMX has exp...

Diving

Diving

Diving is an incredibly specialised aquatic discipline in which athletes leap from platforms or springboards elevated to a height of three metres and 10 metres above the...

Handball

Handball

Handball is played in an indoor court between two teams, of seven players each. The players’ objective is, by only using their hands, to throw the ball into the go...

Athletics

Athletics

The Olympic competition schedule consists of 47 events; 24 for men and 23 for women.

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competi...