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Athletics is a very important part of any game tournament or any occasion that relates varieties of events of games and sports. Same is the case for the 2008 Olympic Games. Among the sports events in 2008 Olympic Games, athletics events happen to be very interesting as well as exciting, in addition to holding much of importance and popularity.
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Athletics, by the origin of the word, is thought to be a collection of a number of sports events. The sports events are generally played in the tracks and fields. It is for this reason that athletics is often referred to as track and field athletics. The different variations of running, jumping and throwing form the events of athletics. Same is the case for the Olympic Games in the year of 2008.
The athletics events mainly includes the sprints events, middle distance events, steeplechase race event, long distance events, Hurdling events, relays events, road running events and road walking events. All of the events that have been mentioned, are track events. The field events include throwing events and jumping events. Throwing events mainly consist of discus throw, hammer throw, javelin throw and shot put. The jumping events are long jump, high jump, triple jump and pole vault.
There are also some multi events in athletics. They are, basically, the combination of some separate events. Some such combined events are Pentathlon, Heptathlon and Decathlon. There are also some events that are highly amazing, interesting and thrilling. These events are very uncommon also. Some of the uncommon athletics events are standing jumps like standing high jump, standing long jump and standing triple jump.
In 2008 Olympic Games, the sprint events will include 100 meter sprints, 200 meter sprints and 400 meter sprints. The middle distance running events will consist of 800 meter run and 1500 meter run. The long distance running events are 5000 meter run and 10000 meter run. The events in the obstacle events are 110 meter and 400 meter for men and 100 meter and 400 meter for women. The relay events include 4 x 100 meter and 4 x 400 meter. Events are separate for men and women.
The field events such as high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, discus throw, shot put, javelin throw and hammer throw will be will be included into the athletics events in the Olympic Games in the year of 2008. Among the road events of athletics in 2008 Olympic Games, the marathon race is the most interesting. Numerous participants will run in this event. It is really an experience to have witnessed any event like the marathon in the Olympic Games.
There will be another road event in the Olympic Games in 2008. It is the race walk of 20 kilometers. This event will be for both men and women. In addition to this race walk, there will be a walk race of 50 kilometers. But this walk race event is only for men.
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