how many events are in the olympics?
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There are 84 events in the 2006 Torino Olympics and they will award 252 medals.
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There is no track and field pentathlon (five events). You can have Modern Pentathlon (Shooting, Fencing, Swimming, Riding and Running) but not a track and field pentathlon. You can have a heptathlon (seven events) or a decathlon (ten events).
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no way! come on get a life. olympics come once every 2 years and winter olympics come once every 4 years! try something new. look at skeliten or downhill ski racing instead.
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The Olympics! (ie. not the winter olympics)\nThe winter olympics simply involes people sliding, almost every single winter olympics event is just another way to slide!\nEdit: I have to disagree with harley01xlc - The olympics (in my experience) are one of the least comcialised, very large scale sporting events in existence.
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Rugby, Cricket, miscelaneous martial arts, video game championships, Golf, Billiards,skateboarding, hang gliding, competitive eating, and soon baseball will have a world cup and not be in the olympics.  More I'm sure, but can't think of at the moment.
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Section 47.1 of the Olympic Charter says:\n\nTo be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, an Olympic sports must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1. Only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents may be include in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad.\n\nSo, never.
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1.  The human body contains 206 bones. \n\n2.  Largest planet isJupiter.\n\n3.  First Olympics was held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. These games were the first modern Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism. They were held between Monday, April 6 and Wednesday, April 15 1896.
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I'm sure it would be impossible to pin down the first competitive women's athletic event in the world. \n\nA couple of milestones, though: \n1921: Monte Carlo hosts "the first true international meeting for women... Five countries were represented in eleven events"\n1928: Women's events are first included in the Olympics
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There are four years between each Winter Olympics. And then 4 years between each Summer Olympics.  But only 2 years between the Winter and Summer.   So the next Olympics would be 2008, but that will be the Summer Olympics (the summer olympics will then be held in 2012, 2016, 2020, and so on). The next Winter Olympics will be held in 2010, then 2014 and so on.  \n\nThere was a time when the Summer and Winter were always held in the same year.  They switched it not to long ago ( I believe in the 90s sometime)
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Any nation can send as much athletes to the games as they want to send given some criteria:\n\n1) Certain events only allow for a certain number of athletes and therefore limit a nation to so much compeditors. A nation like Austria, rich in the skiing events, can send only as much as 3 athletes for some events though they can send 2 or three times the amount. \n\n2) They have a top ranked national team given so much sports for team events like Hockey or curling. \n\n3) Many sports have standards criteria that athletes need to meet or better in order to compete. \n\nThe only exceptions to the rule will be the host nation who can field athletes and teams despite their rank and calibre.
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see  \nhttp://www.olympic-usa.org/12181_19096.htm
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Track events:\n100m\n100m hurdles\n110m hurdles\n200m\n400m \n800m\n1500m \n3000m steeplechae\n5000m\n10,000m\n\nRELAYS\n4 x 100m\n4 x 400m\n\nField events\nShot put\nJavelin\nDiscus\nHammer\n\nLong jump\nTriple jump\nHigh jump\nPole valut
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A triathlon is an athletic event made up of three contests (from the Greek). In contemporary usage, the name triathlon is mostly applied to a combination of swimming, cycling and running, in that order. In most modern triathlons, these events are placed back-to-back in immediate sequence and a competitor's official time includes the time required to "transition" between the individual legs of the race, including any time necessary for changing clothes and shoes. As a result, proficiency in swimming, running, and cycling alone is not sufficient to guarantee a triathlete a competitive time: trained triathletes have learned to race each stage in a way that preserves their energy and endurance for subsequent stages.
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Judo and Taekwondo are sports in the Summer Olympics.
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http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=HB\n\nIt's an olympic sport lol
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The first Olympic games started in Olympia 776 bc.\nThe modern one in Athens in 1896.
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In the Olympics, there are up to three offical languages. English, French and the majority language of the host nation. This is why in Sydney 2000 (Australia) the languages spoken were French and English (as English is already the majority language of Australia)