On February 4, 2022, the Winter Olympics will begin in Beijing, China. The best athletes in winter sports will be there. However, there are winter sports that are no longer part of the calendar and here you can see which ones. The inauguration, as well as all the rest of the games will be broadcast on FuboTV (free trial).
This edition will have the participation of around 2900 athletes from more than 110 countries. Team USA, one of the strongest in Beijing 2022, will have 200 participants. Among them, there will be 6 gold medalists from the previous Olympic Games: halfpipe skier David Wise, Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin and snowboarders Jamie Anderson, Chloe Kim, Red Gerard and White.
There will also be four athletes who qualified for the fifth Olympic Games, which are the curler John Shuster, snowboarders Shaun White and Lindsey Jacobellis and skeleton slider Katie Uhlaender. Besides, the oldest Team USA athlete is 40-year-old snowboarder Nick Baumgartner, while the youngest qualifier is the 16-year-old figure skater Alysa Liu.
Complete list of discontinued Winter Olympics sports
For these Olympic games, there will be a total of 15 disciplines that make up the 7 Olympic sports. Instead, the list of the discontinued Winter Olympics sports is this:
Dog Sled Racing
Military Patrol
Ice Stock Sport
Snowshoeing
Bandy
Winter Pentathlon
Synchronized Skating
Ski Ballet
Speed Skiing
Skijoring
