2008 Olympics

The Beijing 2008 Games

Who decides whether or not a sport is or is not an olympic ?

IOC. Internation Olympic Commitee. The commitee decides if the sport is olympic or not. IOC also decides where ad when the games should be held on. 2001 on july the 13th the IOC had chosen the games to be hosted by Beijing over its competitors TORONTO, OSAKA, ISTANBUL and PARIS. 'One World, one Dream' was the slogan

The Beijing olympics will hold 302 games, 165 men games, 127 women games and 10 mixed.

The events/games that are going to be held are :

1. aquatics



2. archery



3. athletics



4. badminton



5. baseball



6. basketball



7. boxing



8. canoe/kayak



9. cycling



10. equestrian



11. fencing



12. football



13. gymnastics



14. handball



15. hockey



16. judo



17. modern pentathlon



18. rowing



19. sailing



20. shooting
    
    
21. softball



22. table tennis



23. taekwondo



24. tennis



25. triathlon



26. volleyball



27. weightlifting



28. wrestling