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The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...
Merge with China National Student Games into China Student (Youth) Games Chinese Transplant Games [45] 2006: National: CIS Games: 2021: 2025: 4 Azerbaijan, TBA: Regional: For athletes in CIS organization nations Citizens Sports Games: 2000: 2024: 2 Taiwan, Pingtung County: National: Non-Olympics events Commonwealth Games: 1930: 2026: 4: TBA ...
Before 1908, members of United States Olympic teams were selected without trials. The 1908 and 1912 teams were selected based on regional trials, though the Eastern trials were favored. In the United States, no Olympic trials were held in 1916 due to World War I , nor in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II , though Olympic marathon team members ...
The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesäolympialaiset 1952, Swedish: Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (Finnish: XV olympiadin kisat, Swedish: Spel i XV Olympiaden) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
These inspirational and controversial Olympic moments have left the deepest impressions on the world—and the Games themselves. The post 14 Olympic Moments That Changed History appeared first on ...
Edwin Moses always loved the sport of track and field.But reaching the Olympics always seemed like a tall order.. At a young age, Moses was a lot smaller than the other runners. In high school, he ...
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the Kingdom of Greece, and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris, France.
Participating nations at the opening ceremony of the 1912 Games in Stockholm. This is a list of nations, as represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs), that have participated in the Summer Olympic Games between 1896 and 2024. As of the 2024 Games, all of the current 206 NOCs have participated in at least two editions of the Olympic Games.