Sports

Olympic Sports

Basketball was invented by Canadian professor James Naismith at Springfield College in Massachusetts in December 1891. It didn’t take long…

Beach volleyball takes the complexity of the indoor game and adds the difficulty of playing in sand, as well as…

Incorporating cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, there are eleven biathlon events on the Olympic program which can be divided into…

Bobsleds are built to hold two or four athletes. Beginning with a running start, teams push their sleds approximately 50…

At its core, boxing is a contest in which two combatants engage hand-to-hand for sport.

The Olympic program will become gender equal at Tokyo 2020 with the addition of women’s canoe events. All four events…