olympic sports

Many of the most memorable moments at the Olympics happen at Track and Field events. Track and Field at the Summer games in Rio consists of 24 men’s sports and 23 women’s sports.

For the first time since 1904 golf returns to the Olympic games. Sixty men and 60 women from 41 countries will compete for medals in a 72-hole tournament similar to a tour event.

They are many different types of marital arts that after a while it becomes hard to distinguish them.

Judo was first included as an Olympic sport in 1964, during the summer Olympics in Japan. Matt Lagou teaches Judo and Jiu Jitsu at the Downtown Gym in St. Cloud and says the sport has been picking up steam locally with the Rio Olympics.

As a way to measure power and strength weightlifting has been part of the Olympics since the 19th Century. And, Olympic lifting is something you can do at most gyms in the St. Cloud metro.

It doesn’t get a lot of the headlines, but Fencing is once again a sport you’ll find in the Summer Olympics. And, it’s a sport you can learn right here in St. Cloud.