Multi-sport Event - Audience

Audience

Since the establishment of the Olympics, most serial multi-sport events have been organized for specific audiences and participating countries or communities. These affiliations include:

  • regional, such as the East Asian Games and the South American Games
  • political, such as the Spartakiad and the GANEFO
  • historic or historicultural roots, such as the Commonwealth Games (for members of the Commonwealth of Nations) and the Jeux de la Francophonie (for members of La Francophonie)
  • ethnocultural or ethnoreligious, such as the Pan-Armenian Games (for ethnic communities of Armenians both in Armenia and in other countries) and the Maccabiah Games (for communities of Jews of both ethnic and religious origins)
  • religious, such as the Islamic Solidarity Games and the previously mentioned Maccabiah Games
  • occupational, such as the Military World Games, the World Police and Fire Games and the Universiade
  • physical disabilities, such as the Paralympics, the Deaflympics and the Special Olympics World Games
  • human age, such as the World Masters Games, Commonwealth Youth Games and the Senior Olympics
  • gender and sexual orientation, such as the Women's Islamic Games and the Gay Games

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