- The
modern Olympic Games or
Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are the
leading international sporting events featuring summer and
winter sports competitions...
- (three in
summer and
three in winter), and the
first French Olympics since the 1992
Winter Olympics in Albertville. The
Summer Games will
return to its traditional...
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Olympics: The 1936
Berlin Olympic Games. (2006) Krüger, Arnd. The ****
Olympics of 1936, in
Kevin Young and
Kevin B.
Wamsley (eds.),
Global Olympics:...
- The
Summer Olympic Games, also
known as the
Games of the Olympiad, and
often referred to as the
Summer Olympics, is a
major international multi-sport event...
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Winter Olympic Games, the 1924
Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France. The
modern Olympic Games were
inspired by the
ancient Olympic Games, which...
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winter every four years. The
first Summer Olympics was held in Athens, Greece, in 1896; the
first Winter Olympics was in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The first...
- The 2000
Summer Olympics,
officially the
Games of the
XXVII Olympiad and also
known as
Sydney 2000 the
Millennium Olympic Games or the
Games of the New...
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fourth Olympic Games to be held in ****an,
following the 1964
Summer Olympics (Tokyo), 1972
Winter Olympics (Sapporo), and 1998
Winter Olympics (Nagano)...
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International Olympic Committee decided to hold the
Summer and
Winter Olympics in
alternating even-numbered years. The 1992
Summer and
Winter Olympics were the...
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ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The 1972
Summer Olympics were the
second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany,
after the 1936
Games in Berlin,...