Olympics | Feature: Olympic events that no longer exist: The popular, strange and dull

PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The Paris Olympic Games which are inaugurated this Friday see more than 10,000 competitors from over 200 countries and regions compete in 329 different events, but if every sport that has ever existed in the history of the Olympic Games were still included, the number would be much larger.

Some former Olympic sports have fallen out of fashion, some only had a limited scope to begin wit