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...
Modern football has evolved from a game played in streets and schools in the mid 1800s to the most widely played game on earth played in almost every town and village in...
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...
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...
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...
Traditional six-a-side indoor volleyball is referred to at the Olympic Games as volleyball. So the Olympic sport of volleyball has two disciplines - beach volleyball and...
A sport about technique every bit as it is about pure strength. Weightlifting has been around as long as competition itself.
Weightlifting consists of two moveme...
Artistic Gymnastics is one of the most popular disciplines of the Olympic Games and at the same time one of the most demanding, since it combines strength, skill and fle...
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...
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...
Canoe Sprint events are head-to-head races conducted on still water, as opposed to the white-water time trials of the Canoe Slalom competition. In canoes, athletes race ...
Road racing is the form of competitive cycling most analogous to that done by the general public, with riders competing against each other on conventional roads to compl...
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...
The combination of five completely different sports constitutes Modern Pentathlon, the most demanding sport of the Olympic Games. Pentathletes compete in the course of o...
