Talk:Olympic sports

message: I really dont like the current state of the tables. The colors to separate the disciplines in each sport are great. I think, however, to make this look more like a page than a list (which is where we wanted to go with it) we need to put less focus on the tables. I think we can do that by sucking all of the disciplines on the tables into one bar that lists the sport name, and it is collapsed by default only to be opened by the reader to see the events per year. This would both significantly shorten the page and make it less cluttered looking. Also, it would be more managable to look at the tables.
I'm just not sure how to do this, so if someone could give this a look, that'd be great! Jared (t)  18:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're talking about something like this (diff), feel free to copy-paste the code over the current article. --necronudist (talk) 19:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collapsible tables 

message: The background colors in the tables are impossible to distinguish on an LCD screen. I recommend using some colors that are a little more intense. Ericbodden (talk) 20:37, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I would change it myself, but I'm not sure if there's a specific reason the current colors were chosen? Either way, higher contrast would be helpful. Xazy (talk) 04:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colors in tables 

message: Both the official 2008 Olympics website and the IOC website list the official name of this event as "Canoe/Kayak" (not "Canoeing"), as both types (Canoes and Kayaks) are used in these events (C1 500m, K2 1000m etc....). It is correct on this page but currently most articles referring to this sport list it as just "Canoeing" (Canoeing at the Summer Olympics, Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics). Shouldn't these articles and all those related be moved to reflect this?  (Canoe/Kayak at the Summer Olympics, Canoe/Kayak at the 2008 Summer Olympics etc...) The name of the sport should surely be "Canoe/Kayak" with the disciplines being Flatwater and Slalom  Goldfinger820 (talk) 09:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The short version is that we like to keep things simple at WP:OLY. To give you a bit more of an explanation, I dove into the archives, and found this archived section from the talk pages of WP:OLY, and basically, it seems that Canoeing was actually the name of the sport up until 1992. Since we try to keep consistency throughout the years, it was just as well to leave out the "kayak" part. Plus, there is no way to write "Canoe/Kayak" and make it look visually appealing; the short name seems to have been working fine. Jared (t)  00:08, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds fair enough to me. Goldfinger820 (talk) 00:45, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canoe/Kayak 

message: there is no mention of Art competitions at the Summer Olympics???
The list of recognized sports is crazy.  Does anyone have a real list?LedRush (talk) 15:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The list is taken from the IOC official website. Can't be anymore real than that. Parutakupiu (talk) 16:25, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

text: IOC is crazy. But that's the sad reality... --necronudist (talk) 20:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But bridge isn't an olympic sport, is it?  Is there a difference between sports recognized by the IOC and actual olympic sports?  If so, that should be made more clear in the article.LedRush (talk) 21:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I just read a huffy Yahoo! comment that complained about rhythmic gymnastics being considered an Olympian sport, but Greco-Roman wrestling had been removed from the Summer Games line-up. Is that so? Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 04:34, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports 

message: Is there a list anywhere of sports or disciplines that are reserved to one gender only? Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering that too.  There's no female ski-jumping, and no male rhythmic gymnastics or synchronized swimming.  I think there's one other male-only discipline, but I'm having difficulty finding it based on the links from this article... AnonMoos (talk) 19:35, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Flatwater canoeing is also male only as is Nordic Combined.  Ravendrop 21:55, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  single-gender sports/disciplines 

message: I made changes to the Winter Olympic table in light of recent decisions from the IOC.  I do believe it is appropriate to have these new events considering that the schedule is getting finalized. --Perakhantu (talk) 06:08, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Winter Olympic events 

message: I am mystified by the following sentence:
::In the United States, "Olympic sports" may also refer to any NCAA intercollegiate sport that does not generate revenue for a college the way college football and men's college basketball do.[2]
The citation given doesn't support the claim.  And the claim makes no sense.  --Rob (talk) 20:19, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  US special case? 

message: there used to be a portal on their respective pages link Olympic boxing, fencing, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling.  what happened to it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.101.160.159 (talk) 19:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martial Arts 

message: The totals for the chart listed under "CURRENT SUMMER PROGRAM" reads as follows
Total events	43	89	96	78	110	102	156	126	109	116	129	136	149	151	150	163	172	195	198	203	221	237	257	271	300	301	302	302
The math for the totals is incorrect and should read as follows
Total events	43	79	91	77	96	101	149	124	109	116	128	136	149	151	150	163	172	195	198	203	221	237	256	269	298	299	302	302
Drew.mcintire (talk) 14:11, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Puffin Let's talk! 14:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 2 August 2012 

message: FYI, the first footnote leads to a broken link. 67.142.163.22 (talk) 01:03, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken link

message: I came to the page to try and find some info on track and field. Took me like 5 minutes to figure out its only mentioned as athletics. I scrolled up and down the little grid, looking for track and field.. Couldn't find anything. I did a control+f search for the word running (didn't appear), track only appears as track cycling, a few other words that didn't come up.. I even had to link a friend and have him look for where track and field is in the article and he couldn't figure it out either, and I had the same problem on another Olympics page. Now after I saw the word athletics, I realized that's where track and field is, but it shouldn't have been so hard. I've been watching the Olympics all week and watched many broadcasts in my life, and I haven't heard a single commentator or anyone on t.v. refer to the entire track and field genre as "athletics." Now I'm sure it's officially all encompassed as athletics in some official documents and websites, but should ease of use and popular usage come in to play at all? Dancindazed (talk) 04:36, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: For the vast majority of the world athletics is the term that is used not track and field. Athletics is also used in all official documensta and websites as that's the IOC designation - Basement12 (T.C) 07:36, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Track and field (athletics) 

message: > Air sports * (Those sports marked with an asterisk are not eligible to be included at the Olympic Games because the Olympic Charter specifically bans sports with an element of motorization from eligibility.)
This statement in the article makes no sense, because:
1. Several air sports are non-motorized, like wave-riding under a Rogallo wing or a large parachute. All that can be done by simply jumping off cliffs, no winch or tug plane needed. What about hot-air balloning? What about human powered pedal-flight, which has been a reality since 1979? (Google for Gossamer Albatros)
2. Summer Olympics already includes competitions with motorcycle escorts, that are used to cancel out the air drag to (unfairly) aid pedal-cyclists. Why is that not taboo then? Marathon runners are surrounded by 1000cc tour bikes with camera staff.
3. Gunpowder based shooting is an internal combustion machinery based sport and is present at the games. There is no fundamental thermodynamical difference between a motor and a firearm. In fact many engines can be run on gunpowder, instead of diesel or petrol with minimal mods.
It is common knowledge that the Summer Games includes no air games because the Olympic Comitte is mostly french and the french lost their previous love of aviation after they were crushed in the air by the germans in WW2. Bleriot and Exupery cannot rest in peace, seeing the cowardice of their present day compatriots! 91.82.39.124 (talk) 21:11, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volo volantes voto 

message: The article says 28 is the max, but all of the recent sources say 25 core sports and 1 core sport, so it should be 26. Wert7 (talk) 13:24, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It is 28.  The sources I think you are referring to are the ones about dropping wrestling/selecting a new sport.  Those are omitting Golf and Rugby 7s, which have already been confirmed for 2016 but are not part of the review process.  I'm not totally sure if the IOC is terming Golf and Rugby 7s as "core" or not, though.  But, it is 28 sports.  Ravendrop 22:26, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of summer sports

message: Create new section 5 per the discussion above:==Classification of Olympic Sports for revenue share==
Summer Olympic sports are divided into categories based on popularity, gauged by ticket requests, televison viewing figures, press coverage and other factors. The category determines the share the sport's International Federation receives of Olympic revenue.The Queensland Times: [Athletics to share limelight as one of top Olympic sports http://www.qt.com.au/news/atheltics-share-limelight-one-top-olympic-sports/1889097/] ASOIF:[Winners Include Gymnastics, Swimming - and Wrestling - as IOC Announces New Funding Distribution Groupings http://www.asoif.com/News/News_Article.aspx?ID=3392]
The current categories are:
*Category A: athletics, aquatics, gymnastics. 
*Category B: cycling, basketball, football, tennis and volleyball.
*Category C: archery, badminton, boxing, judo, rowing, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting.
*Category D: canoe/kayaking, equestrian, fencing, handball, field hockey, sailing, taekwondo, triathlon and wrestling.
*Category E: modern pentathlon, golf and rugby.
88.88.162.238 (talk) 12:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm inclined to make this change, but I have a question first: what about other sports? This is not a comprehensive list of summer Olympic sports. Rivertorch (talk) 21:03, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. To answer your question, it is a complete list of the 28 Olympic sports for the Rio Games, where this classification will apply. Aquatics, for example, includes the disciplines water polo, diving swimming and synchronised swimming. In other contexts they are occasionally considered distinct sports, but in the context of the Olympics a sport comprises of all the events controlled by the same International Federation, cf. the Olympic Charter. (Similarly for volleyball and beach volleyball etc.) 85.167.110.98 (talk) 22:48, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I see. That makes sense. In adding your proposed addition to the article, I've converted the references to standard templates, decapitalized "Sports" in the section title, and demoted it from a top-level section and placed it at the end of the Summer Olympics section. The placement you suggested didn't make sense to me, but please feel free to reopen this request if you still want it elsewhere. Rivertorch (talk) 05:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Perfectly happy with the placement; it was my original suggestion in the first edit request. The proposed placement was in anticipation of a similar system for winter sports. 85.167.110.98 (talk) 16:27, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Change "empty space between sections 4 and 5" to "new section 5"

message: The article needs an over-haul. A quick read shows a number of problems:
* arcane language - the article use terms that are rarely, if ever, used in the general population. This makes the article hard to digest. Example: "athletics" as a reference to track and fields sports. The use of the term "contested" is also odd.
* gender information with each sport - as mentioned earlier in this talk page several sports are only allowed for a single gender
* sport inclusion/exclusion criteria - very imported yet absent or buried
* now versus history - the article is a spaghetti mix of the history of sports and current information. The information should be separated, possibly into separate articles. For example, the large table of discontinued sports would go into a history article. War (talk) 15:30, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs works

message: Wushu, camel racing, and chess will be added at the 126th IOC Session in Sochi.
EXPOFunner (talk) 22:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 21 December 2013 

message: What is the correct number?
There are 98 events listed at the official site of Pyeongchang 2018
http://pyeongchang2018.com/horizon/eng/page/sub03/sub03_03.asp
with the note: The list of Events can be changed.
Nitobus (talk) 13:01, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of events at Pyeongchang 2018

message: Please add footnote "1" to "Ultimate" under "Recognized international federations" section. Ultimate is an official sport of the World Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Games) listed as "Flying Disc (Ultimate)"
152.85.8.38 (talk) 13:35, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Stickee (talk) 05:09, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 July 2015 

message: Huj678i (talk) 17:12, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2016 

message: Sport climbing is the only sport not yet linked to an existing Wikipedia page in the "Current summer sports" table. Please link to the following, which presents the three sport climbing disciplines to be featured at the Games and describes current instances of the sport hosted by the governing Body (International Federation of Sport Climbing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing_competition IFSC (talk) 14:12, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current and discontinued summer program 

message: The link for Marathon Swimming on the list of which sport was part of the olympics on which year is wrong. It leads to Synchronised Swimming instead of the Marathon Swimming's article. HarryShezar (talk) 13:15, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marathon Swimming Link 

message: We need to ascertain how many sports there are in the winter olympics and whether they are divided into disciplines or not. Up to and including the 2014 Winter Olympics the consensus appears to have been 7 sports and 15 disciplines, but in the Infobox Olympic games/events sub-template the 2018 and 2022 entries have consistently been reverted back to 15 sports with no division into disciplines. Why would the IOC suddenly change their approach anyway? The official list (https://www.olympic.org/sports) shows 15 sports with no subdivision, but is this just for the sake of convenience rather than an official line? Does anyone have a contact at the IOC that they can ask? Please join the discussion here. Thanks, Rodney Baggins (talk) 06:16, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: http://olympstats.com/2018/01/24/sports-disciplines-and-phases/    Jeff in CA (talk) 21:28, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subdivision of winter sports into disciplines 

message: This article describes the distinction between sports and disciplines in great detail but it is not adequately sourced. Where did all the information come from in the first place? There is no official IOC source and the only source given is from a dubious blog which is now unavailable even via the WayBackMachine (https://web.archive.org/web/20070418084050/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olsports.shtml) I've had no luck finding alternative sources to back up any of the information stated in this article. It's all very well citing the individual sports governing bodies, but in terms of the Olympics, we need to source the information from the Olympic governing body, i.e. the IOC, who make the rules for Olympic terminology. Rodney Baggins (talk) 06:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: http://olympstats.com/2018/01/24/sports-disciplines-and-phases/    Jeff in CA (talk) 21:28, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? 

message: Change link to "lifesaving" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifesaving#Sport to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Life_Saving_Federation#Lifesaving_sport Canadasurf (talk) 02:41, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done L293D (☎ • ✎) 11:51, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 July 2018 

message: Sky
ESPN
USA Today
CBS
--2602:306:348E:17B0:C561:5DAB:5F35:845F (talk) 18:20, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breaking (breakdancing) in 2024 

message: ISAF has been renamed to World Sailing (WS) as of 2015, but that has not been reflected in the table here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:586:4100:25E0:C921:9B25:1B5D:D8D1 (talk) 03:30, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated organizing body for sailing 

message: Archery in 1900 has 7 events, not 6 as shown un the tablet. Igor Agarraberes (talk) 15:02, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archery 1900 

message: The four tables that list “alphabetic sports” and Olympic debuts are in need of serious revamping or removal. They contain misleading and inaccurate information, degrade the look and feel of the page, disrupt the text flow by taking up too much space, imply that international federations existed well before they did, use inferior presentation and disregard useful templates, and more. Jeff in CA (talk) 12:29, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. They must be removed. All information exists in the main table. Unnecessary duplication. Nitobus (talk) 12:45, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Removed. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 12:49, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious flaws in tables 

message: Due to the particular nature of athletics, which are not officially divided into disciplines, I think it would be very interesting to include somehow, either for example in the table of discontinued summer sports, or in a different table, discontinued athletics events, and especially those resembling to different "disciplines", such as for example Standing long jump, Standing high jump, Standing triple jump,Greek or ancient style discus, Freestyle javelin, Weight throw, throws (javelin, shot put, discus) with both hands etc. Otherwise, at least to mention them in the text and indicate that a full list of discontinued athletic events exist in the page of Athletics at the Summer Olympics.--Harry Deconstructing (talk) 07:05, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for discontinued athletics events 

message: #Is there anyplace where nations put together a monobob, luge and skeleton combined team to compete? --TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:41, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports that would interest me 

message: Would someone be able to add the respective sport discipline codes from here: https://odf.olympictech.org/ioc/Olympic_Movement_Sport_Codes.pdf to the Summer and Winter tables ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Inferrinizzard (talk • contribs) 21:11, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding IOC Sport Codes to the Summer Program and Winter Program tables