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Different Sports And Activities Played In The Olympics

The last Olympic Games has a total of 32 sports played by team ans individual participating players. The total participating countries in the Olympic Games comes to a total of 80 participating countries. There are so many sport activities played in the Olympic Games, and some of them includes those that are mentioned below.

Alpine Skiing

Alpine skiing is a great sport in the Alpine area and it started way back 1936. The Alpine skiing has a total of five main events. The events include the Super G, combined, giant slalom, slalom and downhill. In this sports, the skiers should slide down the snow-covered hill.

Artistic Gymnastics

It is one of the fields of gymnastics wherein the gymnast need to perform different routine. We call the player gymnast, and he or she perform different stunts on different apparatus. The gymnast make use of different equipments like the parallel bar, vault, and high bars.

Badminton

Badminton is one of the racket sport played by 1 or two players on each team. Some of the things needed in the sport of badminton include the shuttlecock, racket, and net. Usually the game is often played up to 15 points. Since there are two divisions of badminton which is the girls and mens division, each of them are governed with different rules.

Baseball

Before even the start of Americam Civil War, baseball game was already discovered. The National Association of Base Ball Players is the first group that was organized. Baseball was also known as the national pastime of many people before.

Basketball

It is one of the many team sports played by two teams in a court. Basketball is one of the most watched sports nowadays because of the emergence of many celebrities who became famous because of basketball. The team who got the highest number of shoots in the basket on a specified time wins the game.

Bowling

The game bowling make use of a bowling ball that is heavy compared to any other ball used in different games. They are often played by throwing the ball into the flat surface where bowling pins stand on the other side. It is one of the most preferred sport by some people because it helps those muscle groups that are not often exercised in other sport activities.

Football (Soccer)

It is also a team sport which aims to advance the ball into a certain goal. Unlike basketball which makes use of the hand in dribbling the ball, soccer makes use of the feet and legs by simply kicking the ball into the goal.

Taekwondo

It is a Korean Martial Arts which spreads all over the world. Taekwondo simply means the art of kicking and punching with the use of the hands and the feet. It is therefore the art of kicking and punching.

Archery

This is an individual sport. The archer makes use of different materials like the bow, arrow shafts or cedar arrow shafts, arrows, target, and protective equipments.

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