There are 42 events and they can be found at 2008 Beijing Olympics official website.
Yes they are and should be watched in the shooting events. For the first time also they have competitors in the swimming events.
Sania Mirza represented India in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, in the singles and doubles women's events.
swimming, wrestling, boxing, baseball, and cricket
There are 17 Men'a events and 17 Women's events for Swimming
Summer Olympics
Michael Phelps won the gold medal in the Beijing Olympics. He won his sixth gold of the Beijing Games on August 15 by winning the swimming and diving events.
the summer events have summer things like gymnastics, swimming, etc. and the winter Olympics have mostly things to do with ice.
there is wheel chair basket ball swimming
The summer and winter olympics are meets that are held every 4 years. Although during the meet there are events that take place. e.g (track and field events and swimming events in the summer olympics and skiing or snowboarding in the winter olympics)
28 summer sports *new to the clan was softball*
countries that qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics are Japan, America, China, Korea, Australia, Laos (: