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Olympic sport

type of sport with events contested at the Olympic Games
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Olympic sport is a general term [1].

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: type of sport[3]
  • Commons category: Olympic sports[4]
  • Opposite of: non-Olympic sport[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Olympic sports[6]
  • Facet of: Olympic Games[7]
  • Topic has template: Template:Sports at the Olympics[8], Template:Infobox Olympic sport[9]
  • Different from: Olympic sports discipline event[10], Olympic sporting event[11], Paralympic sport[12]
  • Has list: Luettelo olympialajeista[13]
  • Practiced by: Olympic competitor[14]

Why It Matters

Olympic sport has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

art Dick Fosbury NOC*NSF Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → Luettelo olympialajeista
    Subclass of → —
    Opposite of → non-Olympic sport
    Topic's main category → Category:Olympic sports
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003583-olympijske-sporty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
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