Important sports events in a sporting calendar usually involve multiple sports. Olympics games are the most famous sports event held after every year. It has a few of the multi-sport events, which are popular among the athletes of that particular region, unknown to majority of the people.
Here are some of the most watched sports events:
1. Olympic Games: Nothing beats this huge yet vital event in the field of sports. Olympic Games started from Olympia, Greece back in the 8th century. Since, then it led to the most modern games. Olympics takes place after every four years in winter and summers.
2. X Games: This sports event is held for extreme action sports. X Games not only occur in summers but it has its own winter season.
3. World Games: It is an International Association of games since 1981. This event covers all the sports, which are not included in the Olympic Games.
4. Urban Games: Urban Games event is a five-day celebration of the generation of sports. It covers the 3x3 basketball, skateboard and cycling trails.
5. World Artistic Games: As the name of the event suggests it covers the field of artistic sports i.e. trampoline, hip-hop dance, acrobatics, freestyle, and synchronized swimming and diving. It not only covers this area of sports but also provides competition for figure Roller Skating and aerobic gymnastics.
6. World Beach Games: This sporting event combines sports along with the concept of beach. 20 kinds of sports are considered of this event. For instance, games like beach volleyball, beach football or dragon boat racing takes place.
7. World Combat Games: It was first held in the year 2010, and again in the year 2013. It includes competition of 15 martial arts, boxing, wrestling, taekwondo, fencing, sambo, savate, aikido, judo, karate, kendo, kickboxing, jujitsu, and wushu.
8. World Mind Games: It is a multi-sport event formed by International Mind Sports Association. It was brought with the concept being followed in Olympic Games. It includes games like chess, draughts, go and xiangqi.
9. eGames: An event held for the video game players out there on an international level. This event let the gamers come and show their talent by competing on an international basis.
Games for Disable
1. Paralympic Games: This sporting event works in union with Olympic Games. It is an international multi sports event, which comprises of athletes with disabilities. It occurs in winter and summers as well.
2. Deaflympics: As the name suggests this event comprises events for deaf individuals.
3. Special Olympics World Games: It is the world’s largest society that combines youth along with adults with any rational disabilities. This society comprises of 4.4 million athletes from 170 countries around the globe.
4. Invictus Games: This multi-sport event holds events for wounded soldiers. An event primarily inspired by the concept of Warrior Games.
5. Defi Sportif: This international sporting event is particularly designed for athletes who have auditory, physical, psychiatric, and visual disabilities. It takes place every year in Canada with a competition of 20 countries and 5,000 athletes.