The Olympic Games has 33 different sports, including tennis and figure skating.
Olympic Games . Over 13,000 athletes compete at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in 33 different sports and nearly 400 events . Olympic sports . Examples include swimming and water polo ( disciplines of aquatics , represented by the International Swimming Federation ) , or figure skating and speed skating ( disciplines of skating , represented by the International Skating Union ) . Archery and tennis are examples of sports that were competed at the early Games and were later dropped by the IOC , but managed to return to the Olympic program ( in 1972 and 1988 , respectively ) .