Is Basketball A Winter Olympic Sport. The united states maintain their grip on the olympic men's basketball title as stephen curry and lebron james inspire them to a fifth successive gold medal. The summer olympics, more popularly known as just the olympics is a much bigger event with 206 countries participating in the 2020 olympics held in tokyo in 2021.

The ioc requires that the activity have. Basketball was introduced in the olympic programme at the 1904 games in st.