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Olympic

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Olympic meaning

Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games. | Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods. | Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Olympia.

Example sentences (20)

The IOC provides financial support from Olympic broadcast revenue to the 28 IFs of Olympic summer sports and the seven IFs of Olympic winter sports after the completion of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Winter Games, respectively.

Although the concept of an Olympic Truce or Ekecheiria is thought to date back to the Olympic Games of antiquity, it was not until 1993 that a formal "Olympic Truce" was adopted by the UN at the request of the IOC.

Olympic society understands that the Olympic Games cannot be staged without Russia,” said Levitin, who is the senior vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, in comments reported by state news agency Tass.

Zammit is one of an elite group of local athletes who received an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship by the Maltese Olympic Committee in preparation for upcoming sporting events, including next year’s Paris Olympic Games.

The highlight from Skinner’s time with the Olympic team was watching Sarah Hildebrandt, a 2021 Olympic bronze medalist and six-time Pan-American wrestling champion, fulfill her Olympic dream.

Matt Carroll AM, CEO of the Australian Olympic Committee said, “With the Tokyo Olympic Games the closest thing to a home games since Sydney 2000, we are delighted to have Cadbury on board once again to support our Australian Olympic Team.

The International Olympic Committee announced last year that it was adding 3×3 basketball to the Olympic basketball program starting with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924—retroactively awarded Olympic status—that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme.

In 1925, the IOC decided to organize Olympic Winter Games every four years, independent of the Olympic Games proper, and recognized the International Winter Sports Week as the first Olympic Winter games in retrospect.

Revenue distribution The IOC distributes some of Olympic marketing revenue to organisations throughout the Olympic Movement to support the staging of the Olympic Games and to promote the worldwide development of sport.

The Olympic Charter (rule 55.3) of the International Olympic Committee states that the Olympic summer and winter games shall be opened by the head of state of the host nation, by uttering a single formulaic phrase as determined by the charter.

The United Kingdom hosted the 2012 Olympic games, its third Summer Olympic Games, in its capital London, making London the first city to host the Summer Olympic Games three times.

Gordon’s ex-husband and Jennifer Burkard’s father, Lloyd L. “Monty” Gordon, was a founding member of the Canadian Olympic bobsled team, and competed in Olympic games with the team, according to an obituary published in the Stowe Reporter in 2019.

In the first instance, he didn’t want to cede control to the International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation; he used the potential 2022 Olympic break to make up games lost to COVID.

It does say that each of 206 national Olympic committees (NOCs) is obliged to participate in the Olympic Games by sending athletes.

It is organized every four years by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) under the supervision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

It takes the number of partners for Australia's Olympic team up to 32, with existing deals including those with the 14 members of The Olympic Partner programme, sportswear brands Asics and Speedo and the Royal Australian Mint.

Last month the Olympic Council of Asia made a proposal at the Olympic Summit in Lausanne to facilitate the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus in competitions under its auspices.

Moreover, his international achievements include winning three Olympic Gold Medals and one Olympic Bronze Medal.

Olympic and world champions Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Athing Mu will miss next week’s Los Angeles Grand Prix, a two-day extravaganza at Drake Stadium billed as the most talent-loaded track meet in Southern California since the 1984 Olympic Games.