Olympic sports
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Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2020 Summer Olympics included 33 sports; the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports. Each Olympic sport is represented at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by an international governing body called an International Federation (IF).
Archery competition held during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Dropped from the Olympic program after the 1920 Antwerp games, it was reinstated in 1972.
Curling was promoted to an official Olympic sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Volleyball has been part of the Summer Olympics since 1964.
Ice hockey was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics and then moved to the Winter Games in 1924.
2020 Summer Olympics
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013.
Few pedestrians on the Shibuya Crossing during the state of emergency in the middle of Japan's first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, early 2020
The Olympic rings on display at Tokyo Bay to promote the Games
The newly built Japan National Stadium in Tokyo was the venue for the ceremonies and the athletics events.
Police patrolling and watching from a rooftop near the tennis venue