Olympic Sports List

The 2010 Winter Olympics featured 86 competitions between 15 sports. The games were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Olympics opened on February 12, 2010, with the opening ceremony at BC Place in Vancouver. The 2010 Winter Olympics ended on February 28 with the men's ice hockey gold medal game and the closing ceremony.

There were a total of 28 sports at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Within those 28 sports, there were 302 separate competitions, including 165 men's events, 127 women's events, and 10 mixed events.

Since the first Summer Olympics in 1896, only five sports, swimming, athletics, gymnastics, fencing and cycling, have been contested at each Summer Games. There are also 11 sports that have been discontinued, including golf, basque pelota, croquet, jeu de paume, lacrosse, polo, rackets, roque, rugby union, cricket and tug of war.

Additionally, the baseball and softball events were held at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, however are not scheduled to be held at subsequent summer games. Replacing these events at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be golf and rugby sevens.http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Media/?articleNewsGroup=&articleId=73405

Prior to each Olympic games, the International Olympic Committee meets to discuss the events that will be contested at the next Olympics. Generally this occurs several years in advance of the game, sometimes five years ahead of time. For new events, the IOC will often include the event or sport as a demonstration for one or two Olympics to gauge interest and how well it would work as a full event at later games. The IOC can also decide to add specific events within existing sports, such as adding women's competitions alongside existing men's events.

Summer Olympic Sports

Olympic Sports Featured at the 2010 Olympics

2010 Olympic Figure Skating - Watch Olympic Figure Skating Online
Olympic Pairs Free Skating
Olympic Men Free Skating
Olympic Ice Dance
Olympic Ladies Free Skating
Olympic Figure Skating Gala *Non Medal Event*