Like Athens Olympic Games, Beijing Olympic Games has 28 sports, including track and field, rowing, badminton, softball, basketball, football, boxing, kayaking, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, water sports, modern pentathlon, baseball, equestrian, taekwondo, tennis and table tennis.
Some of these events have no disciplines, and the most disciplines are water events, including swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and diving. Although there are no disciplines in track and field, there are 46 events, including 24 men's events and 22 women's events, which are the most gold medals in the Olympic Games. Followed by swimming, although there is no subject, there are 32 events, male and female 16.
It has always been the dream of many people in China to become an official event of the Olympic Games, but it is not so easy to realize this dream.
According to the usual practice, the IOC will generally "take care" of the host country and allow it to apply for a project to enter the Olympic Games. However, at the Berlin meeting of the IOC Executive Board, which ended in April 2005, Rogge stipulated that the "Olympic slimming plan" should be strictly implemented from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, so China would not receive special "care" from the IOC.
Just when all parties thought that Wushu would miss the Olympic Games, in June 2005, during Rogge's participation in the opening ceremony of the 10th National Games in China, Wushu first appeared as a competition in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Its full name was "Wushu Competition in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games", and the rumor that Wushu would become a performance event in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was clarified.