BEIJING 2008 Sports
August 13th, 2007 by OlympicNews
The events programme for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is quite similar to that of the Athens Games held in 2004. The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one more event in total than in Athens.The following are the sports to be contested at the games (The number of events to be contested in each sport is indicated in parentheses):
- Aquatics (46)
- Archery (4)
- Athletics (47)
- Badminton (5)
- Baseball (1)
- Basketball (2)
- Boxing (11)
- Canoe / kayak (16)
- Cycling (18)
- Equestrian (6)
- Fencing (10)
- Football/Soccer (2)
- Gymnastics (18)
- Handball (2)
- Hockey (2)
- Judo (14)
- Modern pentathlon (2)
- Rowing (14)
- Sailing (11)
- Shooting (15)
- Softball (1)
- Table tennis (4)
- Taekwondo (8)
- Tennis (4)
- Triathlon (2)
- Volleyball (4)
- Weightlifting (15)
- Wrestling (18)
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