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Olympic Games sports program Olympic sports program a complete list

Olympic Games competition events are divided into major, sub-items and minor events, of which the major events mainly include: track and field, rowing, badminton, basketball, soccer, boxing, canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, water sports, modern pentathlon, equestrian, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing windsurfing, volleyball and so on.

The full name of the Olympic Games is Olympic Games. The Olympic Games is the world's largest comprehensive games organized by the International Olympic Committee, once every four years, the duration of no more than 16 days, is the world's most influential sports event. In the Olympic Games, the world's athletes and people who love sports gather together, with sports to exchange cultures as well as sports skills, the most basic purpose is to carry forward the spirit of sports, encouraging people to actively participate in sports.

The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece more than 2,000 years ago, and were named after the place where they were held, Olympia. After the ancient Olympic Games were suspended for 1,500 years, the Frenchman Coubertin put forward the initiative of organizing the modern Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century. The Olympic Movement has a famous motto: "Faster, Higher, Stronger", which interprets the Olympic spirit. As Coubertin himself said, "The most important thing about the Olympic Games is not victory, but participation; just as in life the most important thing is not success, but struggle; but the most essential thing is not to conquer, but to fight hard."