| Beijing Olympics A Moment In History | | | | Softball |
| The Beijing Olympics will take place August 8-24, 2008, | | | | Swimming |
| in Beijing, China. During this time the Olympic sport list | | | | Synchronized Swimming |
| consists of 28 summer sports. There are also roughly | | | | Table Tennis |
| 10,500 athletes that are projected to partake in the | | | | Tae kwon do |
| Games, with around 20,000 credited media bringing the | | | | Tennis |
| Olympics to the world. | | | | Triathlon |
| Here is the Olympic Sport List: | | | | Volleyball |
| Archery | | | | Water Polo |
| Athletics | | | | Weightlifting |
| Badminton | | | | Wrestling |
| Baseball | | | | There are 302 different events in these 28 sports. The |
| Basketball | | | | 2008 Beijing Olympics will mark this the third time that |
| Beach Volleyball | | | | the Olympic events will have been held in the territories |
| Boxing | | | | of two dissimilar National Olympic Committees. One |
| Canoe/Kayak Flatwater | | | | event will be held in Hong Kong |
| Canoe/Kayak Slalom | | | | Athletes from Hong Kong nevertheless are flying the |
| Cycling BMX | | | | flag of Hong Kong even though Hong Kong is not an |
| Cycling Mountain Bike | | | | independent state. |
| Cycling Road | | | | The opening which occurred on August 8, 2008, all but |
| Cycling Track | | | | one (Brunei) of the current 205 National Olympic |
| Diving | | | | Committees will take part. China and the United States |
| Equestrian | | | | have the biggest teams, with 639 and 596 competitors |
| Fencing | | | | in that order. Quite a lot of countries are represented |
| Football | | | | at the games by a single athlete. |
| Gymnastics Artistic | | | | Of 195 independent countries, only three did not take |
| Gymnastics Rhythmic | | | | part: Brunei, Kosovo and Vatican City. Another three |
| Trampoline | | | | countries participated for their first time in history: The |
| Handball | | | | Marshall Islands, Montenegro and Tuvalu. |
| Hockey | | | | The agenda for the Beijing 2008 Games is rather like |
| Judo | | | | to that of the Athens Games held in 2004. The 2008 |
| Modern Pentathlon | | | | Olympics will see the arrival of 28 sports, and will hold |
| Rowing | | | | 302 events (165 men's events, 127 women's events, |
| Sailing | | | | and 10 mixed events), one event more in total than in |
| Shooting | | | | Athens. |