Sport in Argentina: Organizations

Sport in Argentina

Sport in Argentina: History

Sport in Argentina: Participant and Spectator Sports

Sport in Argentina: Participant and Spectator Sports SOUTH AMERICAN GAMES

Sport in Argentina: Participant and Spectator Sports PAN AMERICAN GAMES

Sport in Argentina: Participant and Spectator Sports OLYMPIC GAMES

Sport in Argentina: Women and Sport

Sport in Argentina: Youth Sports

Sport in Argentina: Sports in Society

Key Events in Argentina Sport History

The Argentinean National Olympic Committee, which was established 1923, maintains a comprehensive and useful website (http://www.coarg.org.ar/). Argentinean sport is organized into fifty-nine national associations, federations, and confederations under the Olympic committee. These organizations correspond to the mainstream international summer Olympic sports as well as to others, such as subaquatic activities, chess, billiards, bobsled and skeleton, bochas, bowling, boxing, bridge, netball, colombófila (pigeon racing), orienteering, military sport, sport law, water skiing, faustball (similar to volleyball but the ball may bounce between each of three hits per side), sport medicine, sport motorcycling, special Olympics, parachuting, pelota vasca, skiing and mountain climbing, and squash. The Secretaría de Deporte y Recreación is the principal government agency responsible for overseeing sport activities.