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*(1) Gather more information about the Olympic games or other important sports
basketball, volleyball, kabaddi, swimming, etc.
In your scrapbook, stick pictures of various games like football, cricket.
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Sports in India refers to the large variety of games played in India, ranging from tribal games to more mainstream sports such as, cricket, football, field hockey, badminton and kabaddi. India's diversity of culture, people, and tribes are reflected in the wide variety of sporting disciplines in the country.
Cricket has been the most popular sport in India, the country has hosted and won the Cricket World Cup on multiple occasions. Field Hockey is the most successful sport for India at the Olympic Games; the Indian men's team have won twelve Olympic medals including eight gold medals. Other popular sports in India are badminton, football, Kabaddi, shooting, Wrestling, boxing, tennis, squash, weightlifting, gymnastics, athletics, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, and cycling. Popular indigenous sports include Chess, kho-kho, fighter kite, leg Cricket, polo, snooker, and gillidanda.
Kabaddi is an ancient sport and one of the fastest growing sports of India. India won many matches and seasons of Kabaddi at the Asian Games , Kabaddi at the South Asian Games , Asian Kabaddi Championship and all three seasons of the Kabaddi World Cup (Standard style). India Men's team and Women's team both are the most successful of the Kabaddi sport.
India has hosted and co-hosted several international sporting events, most notably the 1951 and 1982 Asian Games, the 1987, 1995 and 2016 South Asian Games, the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2014 Lusofonia Games, the 1987, 1996 and 2011, 2023 Cricket World Cups, the 1978, 1997, 2013, 2025 Women's Cricket World Cups, the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
Domestic professional sports leagues in the country include the Indian Premier League (Twenty20 cricket), the Indian Super League and the I-League (football), the Pro Kabaddi League (kabaddi), the Hockey India League (hockey), Premier Badminton League (badminton), the Pro Wrestling League (wrestling), the Ultimate Table Tennis league (table tennis), and the Prime Volleyball League (volleyball), the Ultimate Kho-Kho League (Kho–Kho).
Major international sporting events annually held in India include the Maharashtra Open in tennis, the Indian Open in golf, the India Open in badminton, India Open (table tennis).
The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna is India's highest award for achievement in sports, while the Dronacharya Award is awarded for excellence in coaching.Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2020 Summer Olympics included 33 sports;[1] the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports.[2][3] Each Olympic sport is represented by an international governing body, namely an International Federation (IF).[4]
Archery competition held during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Dropped from the Olympic program after the 1920 Antwerp games, it was reinstated in 1972.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) establishes a hierarchy of sports, disciplines, and events.[4] According to this hierarchy, each Olympic sport can be subdivided into multiple disciplines, which are often mistaken as distinct sports. Examples include swimming and water polo, which are in fact disciplines of the sport of "Aquatics" (represented by the International Swimming Federation),[5] and figure skating and speed skating, which are both disciplines of the sport of "Ice skating" (represented by the International Skating Union).[6] In turn, disciplines are subdivided into events, for which Olympic medals are awarded.[4] The number and types of events may change slightly from one Olympiad to another.
Previous Olympic Games included sports that are no longer included in the current program, such as polo and tug of war.[7] Known as "discontinued sports", these have been removed due to either a lack of interest or the absence of an appropriate governing body for the sport.[4] Some sports that were competed at the early Games and later dropped by the IOC, have managed to return to the Olympic program, for example archery, which made a comeback in 1972, and tennis, which was reintroduced in 1988. The Olympics have often included one or more demonstration sports, normally to promote a local sport from the host country or to gauge interest in an entirely new sport.[8] Some such sports, like baseball and curling, were added to the official Olympic program (in 1992 and 1998, respectively). Baseball was discontinued after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, only to be revived again for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which saw the introduction of new disciplines within a number of existing Summer Olympic sports as well as several new sports, such as karate and skateboarding, making their Olympic debuts. Breakdancing will make its debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and Ski Mountaineering will debut at the 2026 Winter Olympics.