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Within the 28 sports of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, there are a total of 37 disciplines.
A discipline is a branch of an Olympic sport comprising one or more events. For example, aquatics is an Olympic sport with four Olympic disciplines: swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming.
An Olympic sport must be "widely practiced by men in at least 75 countries and on four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and on three continents".
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