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The current program of the Olympic Games includes 35 different sports, 53 disciplines and more than 400 events. The Summer Olympic Games includes 28 sports with 38 disciplines and the Winter Olympic Games includes 7 sports with 15 disciplines.

Several sports have multiple disciplines that are governed by the same international sports federation, but are often considered different sports by the public. Examples include swimming and water polo (both are disciplines of aquatics), or figure skating and speed skating (both are disciplines of skating).

Early Olympic Games featured several sports no longer on the Olympic program, such as polo and tug of war. Archery and tennis are examples of sports that were competed at early Games, were dropped from the Games, and then were subsequently returned to the official program (in 1972 and 1992, respectively).

Demonstration sports have often been included in the Olympic Games, usually to promote a local sport from the host country or to gauge interest and support for the sport. Several of these sports, such as baseball and curling, were subsequently added to the official program (in 1992 and 1998 respectively).

Summer Olympic Games

Current program

The following sports (or multiple disciplines of the same sport) are currently on the program of the Summer Olympic Games, listed according to the name of the sport or discipline as used by the International Olympic Committee.

X = sport or discipline competed at the specified Games
(d) = demonstration sport

Past sports

The following sports and disciplines have previously been part of the Summer Olympic Games program, but are no longer on the current program:

X = sport or discipline competed at the specified Games
(d) = demonstration sport

Demonstration sports

The following sports have been demonstrated in Summer Olympic Games for the years shown, but have never been included on the official Olympic program:

Winter Olympic Games

Current program

The following sports are currently on the program of the Winter Olympic Games, listed according to the name of the sport as used by the International Olympic Committee. Three sports have multiple disciplines, and these are shown in this table.

Note that figure skating was part of the program for the 1908 Summer Olympic Games and the 1920 Summer Olympic Games before there was a separate Winter Olympic Games. Ice hockey was also competed in the 1920 Summer Olympic Games.

X = sport or discipline competed at the specified Games
(d) = demonstration sport

Demonstration sports

The following sports have been demonstrated in Winter Olympic Games for the years shown, but have never been included on the official Olympic program:

• Bandy (1952)
• Ice stock sport (1936, 1964)
• Military patrol (1928, 1936 and 1948) – also competed in 1924 (medals awarded) and now considered an event in biathlon for those Games
• Skijöring (1928)
• Sled-dog racing (1932)
• Speed skiing (1992)
• Winter pentathlon (1948)
• Ski ballet – demonstration event in the sport of Freestyle skiing (1988 and 1992)

Recognized and candidate sports

The following sports, disciplines and events of sports that are not part of the current Olympic program, are submitted as candidates sports for to be included in the future at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games on the official Olympic program as official Olympic sports or as demonstration sports and are still recognized by the IOC. Their respective sport federation is responsible for ensuring that the sport's activities follow the Olympic Charter. Part of these candidates sports, disciplines and events of sports already were at the Summer Olympic Games on the official Olympic program or as demonstration sports in the past. Other part of these candidates sports, disciplines and events of sports can be included in games for the first time.

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¹ The 1906 Summer Olympics or 1906 Intercalated Games were discounted ex post facto by the IOC. All medals awarded during these games have not since been counted officially on total medal counts.

² These games were cancelled due to the World Wars. The 1916 Summer Olympics were cancelled due to the onset of WWI; both the Summer and Winter Olympics of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled due to WWII.

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