Sports

1. There were 比赛 in architecture, music, literature, and painting.
4. The first modern Olympic Games 举行 in Athens, Greece, in the year 1896.
9. Then tennis 消失 from the Olympics until 1988.
11. these differences 反映 the changing definition and popularity of sports.
12. The Olympic Games today are very different from the first 现代的 Olympic Games in 1896.

2. However, the IOC doesn't want to add more sports to the Olympic Games without 减少，消除 others.
3. A sport has to be popular in at least 50 countries on three 洲,大陆 before it can be added.
5. 艺术相关的events were also a part of the Olympic Games from 1912 to 1948.
6. They 竞赛 in 43 different events in just 9 sports.
7. baseball, badminton, and taekwondo are more recent 新增 to the Olympic Games.
8. Athletes from only 13 countries 参与 in the Games that year.
10. It is the job of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to add and 移除 sports from the Olympic Games.