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The 114th IOC Session, in 2002, limited the Summer Games programme to a maximum of 28 sports activities, 301 events, and 10,500 athletes. Three years later, at the 117th IOC Session, the primary main programme revision was performed, which resulted within the exclusion of baseball and softball from the official programme of the 2012 London Games. Since there was no agreement in the promotion of two different sports activities, the 2012 programme featured simply 26 sports activities. The 2016 and 2020 Games will return to the utmost of 28 sports given the addition of rugby and golf.

The Olympic Games have been used as a platform to advertise political ideologies virtually from its inception. Nazi Germany wished to painting the National Socialist Party as benevolent and peace-loving once they hosted the 1936 Games, though they used the Games to show Aryan superiority. Germany was essentially the most profitable nation at …

Athletes from Taiwan did not participate once more until 1984, after they returned underneath the name of Chinese Taipei and with a particular flag and anthem. It was not until the retirement of IOC President Avery Brundage, in 1972, that the IOC started to discover the potential of the television medium and the profitable advertising markets out there to them. Under the leadership of Juan Antonio Samaranch the Games began to shift towards worldwide sponsors who sought to link their products to the Olympic model.

The regulation restricted the variety of immigrants to about 160,000 per 12 months in 1924. This led to a major discount in the immigrant commerce for the transport traces, forcing them to cater to the tourist commerce to survive. At the turn of 1927–28, Olympic was converted to carry vacationer third cabin passengers in addition to first, second and third class.

Many Olympic events are …