What this site is
Brief Sports is an encyclopedic quick reference for sports: short, structured pages about individual sports, their governing bodies, their most important competitions, and the media that cover them. Each page answers the basic questions — what it is, how it works, who governs it, why it matters — in a few hundred words, and points to authoritative sources for anything deeper.
It is deliberately not a Wikipedia competitor. There are no athlete biographies, no edition-by-edition results, and no statistics databases. The goal is orientation: a reader should understand the essentials of a sport, federation or competition in under two minutes.
Sourcing standards
Every page carries numbered references collected at the end of the page, with the date each source was last accessed. Our sourcing hierarchy:
- Primary sources first. International federations, the International Olympic Committee, official competition organizers and official records are the backbone of every page.
- Established media second. Major news organizations and recognized specialist publications are used for context, standing and history.
- Crowdsourced references last. Wikipedia and similar sources may inform background research but are not used as the sole support for any claim published here.
Accuracy and updates
Each page shows a "Last reviewed" date. Facts that change — leadership, host cities, formats, member counts — are checked against primary sources when a page is reviewed. If you find an error, we want to know: corrections make the reference better for everyone.
Independence
Brief Sports is an independent reference project. It carries no advertising and no sponsored content, and it is not affiliated with any federation, team, agency or commercial organization.