The 2008 Summer Olympics had over 28 sports.
=== Popularity of Olympic sports ===The IOC divides Summer Olympic sports into five categories (A  E) based on popularity, gauged by six criteria: television viewing figures (40%), internet popularity (20%), public surveys (15%), ticket requests (10%), press coverage (10%), and number of national federations (5%)
 Acceptance of Mallon's recommendation increased the number of events to 95, and also entailed increasing the number of participation countries up to 26 and athletes up to 1226

