Olympic Games in a sentence

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.

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.

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.

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.

NBC has also held the American broadcasting rights to the Summer Olympic Games since the 1988 games and the rights to the Winter Olympic Games since the 2002 games.

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 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.

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.

Since 1988, the International Olympic Committee have chosen to validate Disabled Sports (physical disabilities) and incorporate it as a part of the Games: the staging of the Paralympic Games immediately follows the Olympic Games.

Some of these adjustments include the creation of the Winter Olympic Games for ice and winter sports, the Paralympic Games for athletes with a disability, and the Youth Olympic Games for teenage athletes.

As she returns for her third Olympic Games starting on Saturday, Biles is currently tied with former U.S. Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller, with each earning seven medals at the Games.

The lawn from Houbai could be seen at the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai Expo and the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games.

With the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris five years away, she said, “Allandre is focused and has his eyes set on the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi admitted plans for the post-Games use for several venues, including the aquatics centre in the Olympic park, had largely remained on paper.

Countdown clock used for the games in the shape of an arrowhead U.S. Bobsled Team makes their way down the track at Utah Olympic Park during the men's two-man bobsled event at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

In the Olympic Games after 1920, instead of requiring all competitors to compete against each other regardless of size, weight classes were introduced and, by the 1932 Olympic Games, weightlifting was divided into five weight divisions.

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.

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