What is Athletics?

The sports that makeup athletics are divided into two main groups: track events-which include sprinting, middle and long-distance running, relay running, hurdling, and walking- and field events that require jumping and throwing skills. Contests designed to test the speed, strength, agility, stamina of athletes were held by the ancient Greeks over 4,000 years ago. However, the abolition of the Olympics Games in 393 AD meant that athletics were neglected until the revival of large-scale competitions in the mid-nineteenth century. Modern stadiums offer areas reserved for the long jump, triple jump, and pole vault, usually situated outside the running track. The javelin, shot, hammer, and discus are thrown within the track area. Most athletes specialize in one or two events but, in the heptathlon, women compete in seven events, held over two days: 200 m and 800 m races, 100 m hurdles, javelin, shot put, high jump, and long jump. In the decathlon, men compete in ten events over two days: 100 m, 400 m, and 1,500 m races, 110 m hurdles, javelin, discus, shot put, pole vault, high jump, and long jump. The Athletics Federation of India is the apex body for Athletics in India and is responsible for conducting competitions in the country, formed in 1943. It was earlier called the Amateur Athletic Federation of India. It is associated with both Asian Athletics Association and World Athletics. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games, beginning in 1964. Indian athletes have won 35 medals, all at the Summer Games. The Olympics include summer games, winter games, and Paralympic games. Each type of game is held every four years, with the winter and summer games held two years apart from each other. Olympic sports. Currently, the Olympic program consists of 35 different sports, 53 disciplines, and more than 400 events. The Summer Olympics include 28 sports with 38 disciplines, and the Winter Olympics includes 7 sports with 15 disciplines. Sports of the Olympic Games Only five sports have been contested at every Summer Olympic game since 1896:Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, gymnastics, and swimming. The five rings represented the five participating continents of the time: Africa, Asia, America, Europe, and Oceania. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by the Olympics, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at present. The Olympic Games are held every four to respect the ancient origins of the Olympic Games, which were held every four years at Olympia. The four-year interval between the editions of the ancient game was named an "Olympiad" and was used for dating purposes. Time was counted in Olympiads rather than years at the time. The Olympics is an event where people of all kinds of nations compete and come together in this imagined place, called 'the Olympics. It doesn't matter where the Games were held. The games will create the same feeling about the games through symbols and myths, and the whole world wants to be part of it.