The European Games are not related to theEuropean Championships, a separate multi-sport event organised by individual European sports federations, bringing together the individual European Championships of sports such asathletics,swimming,artistic gymnastics,cycling,rowing,golf, andtriathlon under a single 'brand' on a four-year cycle beginning in2018, and broadcast by agreement with theEBU.[4]
The European Games are also the third event created and organised by the EOC. TheEuropean Youth Olympic Festivals, both winter and summer, and broadly mirroring theYouth Olympic Games are organised biennially, while the quadrennialGames of the Small State of Europe (not to be confused with the separateIsland Games) provide competition opportunities for the handful of microstates in the European continent. As of 2024 there are no EOC endorsed European Winter Games.
As of the 2023 edition, 50 nations whoseNational Olympic Committee is recognized by the European Olympic Committee have competed at the European Games. As of 2023, two of these, Russia and Belarus, are suspended. In addition, a Refugee EOC team has been created to take part.[9]
^Although the Pacific Games takes in all of Oceania/Australasia, the two largest countries in the region, Australia and New Zealand, did not participate because of the danger they would, though their wealth and size relative to other members, excessively dominate the event. They were however, provisionally admitted to the Games in 4 sports in which other nations were consistently competitive - rugby sevens, weightlifting, sailing and taekwondo - in 2014.
^"Baku 2015 at a glance".baku2015.org. 1 June 2015. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015. Retrieved4 September 2015.
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