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Summer Olympic sports
- CanoeingCanoeing is one of the oldest ways humans have moved across water, yet Verlen Kruger turned it into something almost mythological: over 100,000 miles paddled…
- KarateKarate began not as a sport but as resistance. In the Ryukyu Kingdom, young aristocrats who were banned from carrying swords under samurai rule built unarmed…
- SurfingSurfing traces its origins across at least three to five thousand years of human history, making it one of the oldest known sports on earth.
- Rowing (sport)Rowing is one of the oldest competitive sports in the world, tracing its modern contest roots to the early 17th century, when professional watermen raced for…
- TennisTennis began not with rackets but with bare palms. Historians trace the game's roots to 12th-century northern France, where players struck a ball with their…
- Swimming (sport)Swimming as a competitive sport carries a history that stretches back tens of thousands of years, to Stone Age cave paintings that show humans moving through…
- BreakdancingBreakdancing began in the Bronx borough of New York City, born from the African American and Puerto Rican communities who shaped it into one of the most…
- BoxingBoxing is a combat sport with roots that may stretch back to the sixth millennium BC in what is now Ethiopia. A relief sculpture from Egyptian Thebes, carved…
- Association footballAssociation football draws an estimated 250 million players across more than 200 countries and territories, which makes it the most popular sport on the…
- Sport of athleticsAthletics began with a single race. At the first Olympics in 776 BC, the only event was a stadium-length sprint known as the stadion.