0_Apprentice
Have you ever participated in track and field?
1_Wizard
Yes, I have, do you know much about it?
0_Apprentice
Just that it's a lot of running and solo sports played on a field. What do you know?
1_Wizard
Yeah you are mostly correct but it also includes jumping and throwing.
0_Apprentice
Like pole vaulting?
1_Wizard
Yes that will consider as part track and field.  The name is derived from the sport's typical venue: a stadium with an oval running track enclosing a grass field where the throwing and jumping 
0_Apprentice
I think it's fun to watch during the Olympics.
1_Wizard
Interesting fact about Olympics, on-air title of the telecasts, as typically announced at the start of each broadcast and during sponsor billboards is always the official name of the games in question – for example, "The Games of the XXIX Olympiad" for the 2008 Summer Games.