Sports is itself a word filled with full of joy and courage, that brings people of every age group together. And the most loved game of all time is the Olympics Sports where millions of athletes from every country participates with great enthusiasm. This giant event takes place every four years, wavering amidst the summer and winter Olympics every two years in four-year period known as an Olympiad. IOC is the governing body for this most awaited event of sports.
Here, is the list of the top 10 all-time best sports of the Olympics covering sports for every audience;
- Gymnastics
- Athletics
- Swimming
- Fencing
- Combat
- Badminton
- Soccer
- Weightlifting
- Archery
- Hockey
1. Gymnastics:
The fascinating sport in the Olympics is Gymnastics holding first place in the list of the best Olympics Sports Worldwide. Gymnastics gives a thrilling experience for every spectator in the crowd. Gymnastics is a single-player, trampoline, and synchronized gymnastics game of bequeathing personality, strength, flexibility, durability. It is for both men and women separately further sub-divided into different types as Vault, Uneven bars, Balance beam, Floor, Scoring for women and Floor, Pommel horse, Still Rings, Vault, Parallel bars, Horizontal bars for men. The art and spirit of Gymnastics are evolved from the ancient times of the Greek period and is now became a national sport of Switzerland.
2. Athletics:
Right after the Gymnastics, the craze of Athletics (track and field) takes over the limelight of the Olympics. Track and Field sports truly rely on the abilities to run, jump and throw. Athletics covers all the sports included separately in the running are road-running, cross-road running, racewalking; in racing are sprints, middle and long-distance sprints, racewalking, hurdling; in jumping are long jump, high jump, triple jump, pole vault; and in throwing are shot put, javelin, discus, hammer. These are the most-watched sports by the spectators as they relate closely to the daily life of audiences.
3. Swimming:
Swimming has a separate fan base for it outside the Olympics as well. The alluring and charming sport of all the sports in the Olympics, Swimming is a water racing sport where the whole body of the participants is inside the water. Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle, and Individual medley are the enthralling singular events of the Olympia’s Swimming. Swimming also has multi-participating events where four swimmers compete in a freestyle or medley relay. Swimming is the National Sport of the United Kingdom. It excites people quickly with its charming swimsuits, caps, and other swimming accessories and keeps holding at third position in the top 10 best Olympic Sports.
4. Fencing:
The word Fencing is unknown to many because it disappeared from the early Olympics and came into light after the emergence of the Modern Olympics in 1896. It is a sport of 3 different types of weapons foil, epee, and sabre. The enthralling thing about Fencing is its costume, which also acts as a weapon. The Foil Fencers weapon foil is a thrusting light weapon with a target region limited to the torso. Next is a heavy thrusting weapon epee where the target region is an entire body of fencers. The most complicated is sabre Fencing which has a cutting and thrusting sabre weapon where the target region covers everything overhead the waist except the back of the head and hands.
5. Combat:
Combat the word itself rejuvenates all with enthusiasm by reviving the sports of Wrestling, Judo, and Tae-kwon-do. Yes, these three powerful combat sports of the Olympics are always cherished by every age group. They are a collection of martial arts where there is one-to-one sizzling combat which is ultimate for the spectators to watch without flipping eyes. Each sport has its own set of rules, and all are unarmed sports where there is direct physical contact. Wrestling is the National Sport of Bulgaria, Taekwondo is of South Korea, and Judo is the National Sport of Japan.
6. Badminton:
One of the most aspirational sports of Olympics is the Badminton. It is the National Sport of Indonesia still loved and played by every country with the same enthusiasm. Badminton, played by both men and women in different ways as singles, doubles, and mixed doubles with an equal set of rules for both. Badminton is the sport that reboots every viewer’s childhood memory with their cousins during their teenage and is the most preferred sport by every age group at any time of their busy schedule.
7. Soccer:
The topmost fondled sport not only in the local field but also in the worldwide Olympics games is Soccer also called Football. Being originated in England, Soccer is being played as a de facto national sport in nations of Australia, France, Haiti, Israel, Italy, Mauritius, Poland, and Serbia. Football in Olympics spreads its wings worldwide and is also cherished by every sports aficionado. The game is played by both men and women in the Olympics as both beach and field Soccer. Soccer has gained its representation across the globe after the initiation of Women’s Soccer.
8. Weightlifting:
Dumbbells, Muscles, Biceps, Weights, and Barbells are the engaging words associated with Weightlifting. Bulgaria is the country that represented Weightlifting as its national sport. In Olympics, Weightlifting is the development of an athlete lifting weights. The athletes have to lift a certain amount of weight distributed on the two sides of the barbell in three steps; the snatch, clean, and jerk. Snatch is a wide-grip of one move lift and clean and jerk are close-grip with two moves lift in three attempts for each and played by both men and women.
9. Archery:
The most concentrated and ancient sport of the world Archery, is included at the 9th position in the top 10 all-time best sports of the Olympics. It is a sport played with the skill of shooting arrows with a bow on a fixed target at a 70 m distance on the field. In the good old days, it was only used for hunting and combat, but in today’s date, Archery is a competitive sport. The competitor is called an Archer or a bowman, people fond of it are called toxophilite, and an expert in Archery is titled as a marksman. Archery is the National game of Bhutan still; South Korea is dominating the game in women’s singles winning all 8 medals since its comeback in Olympics from 1988.
10. Hockey:
Hockey looking similar to Lacrosse is the riveting sport in the Olympics. Hockey occupies 10th place in the top 10 all-time best Sports of the Olympics. It is the National sport of India, dominated the Olympics with gold for many consecutive years by the Indian Hockey team. Hockey is played on both Field and Ice and is loved to watch by every sports fanatic. Discontinuing for some years still never missed its charm and hype among the spectators after a robust triumph again in the Olympics.
The list of Olympics sports is very vast with varieties of games, which no one could have heard before. It keeps on changing for each coming Olympics with some addition and deletion of sports according to the international interest of participation spirit. The list given here covers only the top 10 best Sports of the Olympics, which are all-time favourites of spectators from the trusted sources.
