A couple of years ago the FP Gal asked me to categorize what sports actually take place during the Olympics. That led me to writing this piece here , which goes through the various events during the Summer Olympics. I thought I'd do the same thing for the winter Olympics. Hmmm, looks like Wikipedia has done the job for me. 98 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports were included in the 2014 Winter Olympics. The three skating sports disciplines are figure skating , speed skating , and short track speed skating . The six skiing sport disciplines are alpine , cross-country skiing , freestyle , Nordic combined , ski jumping and snowboarding . The two bobsleigh sports disciplines are bobsleigh and skeleton . The other four sports are biathlon , curling , ice hockey , and luge . A total of twelve new events will be contested to make it the largest Winter Olympics to date.