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Category: Olympic Sports
Sports played primarily at the Olympic Summer Games and the Olympic Winter Games, often by amateur athletes.
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WatchingAllSports already has pages on Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and Tennis. Please consult those pages for more information on the way those games are played in general. This page will only contain information on them if the Olympic versions of the sports are noticeably different from the professional versions. History The modern Olympic games have been…
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This post is a header which contains all the Olympic sports covered on WatchingAllSports.com. Please use the menu at the top of the page to select a specific sport or category. Olympic Sports [placeholder for an explanation of the olympics and their different sports] Summer Sports Water sports – Diving – Swimming & Marathon swimming…
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Professional and Olympic skiing have many of the same roots and techniques, but the focus of the Olympic events is narrower than dedicated skiing events such as the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. These dedicated events allow athletes to focus on much more technical parts of skiing (such as telemark skiing, which combines several events…
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Olympic skating is a broad category, but the majority of events are speed skating and types of figure skating for solo and pairs events of varying lengths. With the beauty of dance and the precision of an icepick, figure skating is a visually dramatic sport – even if it can become too flambuoyant for its…
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Track and field are actually part of a larger subsection of “athletics” within the official Olympic documentation, but the layman’s idea of running and throwing things is still the most accurate label. The only difference is that some races take place on roads instead of tracks. History Running is one of the oldest human activities…
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