A total of nine sports were featured in the first modern Olympic
Games in Athens in 1896. Since then, the number of disciplines has grown
to the point where 26 sports will be contested in the 2012 Summer
Olympics beginning today in London. Of course, several sports have been
removed from the Olympic lineup over time, too — after the 2008 Beijing
games, for instance, the International Olympic Committee
voted to drop baseball and softball from the program, around the same
time that it voted to add two sports, golf and rugby union, to the
summer games in Rio de Janeiro four years from now.see more
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