These are the "traditional" sports, warped by physics. Regolith Rugby (played in lunar dust) is a sport where a single tackle sends both players tumbling for 40 meters. Deep-Space Marathon is run inside a rotating O’Neill cylinder. The Coriolis effect means that runners experience nausea so intense that only 12% of Earth’s elite marathoners can complete the distance without vomiting in their helmets.

The "stadiums" are not built; they are borrowed. The Jovian slalom races take place in the rings of Saturn, where competitors on microgravity skiffs must navigate ice boulders moving at 15,000 mph. The finish line isn't a ribbon; it's a magnetic capture field. Miss your braking window? You become part of the ring. While the venues are exotic, the events fall into three brutal categories:

One day, a child born on a dusty Mars colony will watch a sprinter run a 9-second 100m on a blue-sky Earth holo and laugh. "So slow," they will say. "He can't even jump over a house."

In a solar system divided between the Earth Coalition, the Martian Congressional Republic, and the Outer Belt Alliance, conflict over water and helium-3 is constant. The Games provide a pressure valve. A dispute over mining rights in the Ceres sector is settled not by railguns, but by a best-of-seven Void Ball series.