How To Use Olympics In A Sentence

A truly poignant object is the patinated bronze sheet with names of Olympic champions inscribed on it from the first century B.C. to A.D. 385, after which the Olympics were outlawed. Transformational Objects
Taiwan grabbed two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze at the Athens Olympics.
The marathon race is the big test of endurance in the Olympics.
Eastman Kodak is a major sponsor of the Olympics.
He had spoken of being inspired by Sheffield's John and Sheila Sherwood winning medals in the Mexico Olympics, of joining their club and of being given his first pair of spikes by Sheila.

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Ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Peter is a contender for a gold medal in the Olympics.
One of the greatest female athletes in history, she won a silver medal in the heptathlon in the 1984 Olympics and gold medals in the 1988 and 1992 Games. Born on March 3 | myFiveBest
The day also saw Tamana felicitating those who had successfully won medals at the recently held Delhi Special Olympics.
He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
It''s the biggest thing to happen in The Land Cod Forgot since the invention of the pogey cheque - Newfoundland''s native son Brad Gushue will represent Canada in curling at the 2006 Olympics in Turin," he wrote. Archive 2006-03-01
This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
Another veteran of the 1960 Rome Olympics taking part is the Rev Basil Pratt, who was an Army padre in the Falklands and the first Gulf War.
The Santa Monica iteration of this summer staple is one of the most budget-conscious ones at $40 (proceeds benefit the Special Olympics), but if you want to go even lower there's the $5 Thrillist food truck rally in Hollywood (proceeds benefit Meals on Wheels). Your Weekend To Do-List: Block Party, Blaxploitation, & Beer
Vancouver - Weather conditions were improving ahead of the men's downhill at Whistler Creekside Monday in good news for organizers who have had to rejuggle their Olympics alpine ski programme. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
In order to be in tip-top shape for the upcoming Olympics, athletes must train vigorously and sacrifice time that they would normally spend with their families or their loved ones.
Prinz's goal haul was also a record for most goals scored by one player in a women's match at the Olympics.
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
WALES will benefit from the London Olympics if it uses the Games as a "bridgehead" to bring sport into education, Sebastian Coe insisted today. WalesOnline - Home
Tom is a speed demon . He qualifies for the Olympics.
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
WHISTLER In his fourth Olympics, U.S. biathlon veteran Jay Hakkinen was determined not to let his team go out meekly from a disappointing Games. After disappointing Olympics, U.S. biathletes look forward
She got a hero's welcome on her return from the Olympics.
The sport of curling is a big deal here - Scotland won a gold medal at the last Olympics.
Now China expects him to come up with something suitably spectacular for the Olympics ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
London Olympics with gusto, Meadows is candid about her fear of the Games and the countdown to what she calls "doomsday". Evening Standard - Home
1972 - Israeli Athletes are taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre.
The entry "More fine Olympics values -- Spanish team poses as slant-eyed Chinee RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
The first Modern Olympic games in 1896 featured competitive gymnastic events for men, which have been included in every Olympics since.
Brazil's men have won the World Cup a record five times but their women have missed out on the medals at the last two Olympics.
The Olympics receive extensive television coverage.
The swimmer was sent home from the Olympics in disgrace.
Women's football has enjoyed a boom and the Olympics could prompt a similar growth spurt. Times, Sunday Times
To qualify for the Olympics, each country must have two shooters who have won first place in World Cup competition.
Cities have their own, distinctly unharmonious giving league, which recently featured an exchange of insults between rival bidders for the Olympics.
As the nation goes doolally about the Olympics, shouldn't it be asked: what happens next?
For example - why, time after time, does Britain bid to host the Olympics in Manchester?
We train elite athletes in hopes that they will make it to the Olympics.
What broadcasters might not want are external events, such as the Sydney Olympics, Presidential election and World Series, clouding their fall lineups.
She won the individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with. Vue Weekly
Hence the Beijing Olympics starting time of 8 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2008.
He is approached by a pair of twin preppies from Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played by actor Armie Hammer) - two privileged types who row crew and have the Olympics in their sites. Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Social Network
When we competed as amateurs in the Olympics we would practise all year for three or four events.
This drugs scandal is another blot on the Olympics.
She was given the VIP treatment after winning gold for her country at the Sydney Olympics.
Kwak Yoon-Gy, left, and Lee Jung-Su, center, won a silver medal in the men's 5,000-meter relay in short track speed skating at the Vancouver Olympics. Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
After the Olympics, I hope to attend graduate school and complete a master's in education.
Word is now that Stephen Harper is going to try to progue Parliament again until after the Olympics rather than submit to an order by the House of Commons to turn over uncensored documents in the Afghan prisoner investigation. Rumors of a coup
And softball is slated for elimination from play after these Olympics.
At half-time, the march past by many of Scotland's medallists from the Olympics and Paralympics showed that our strength lies in individual sports such as cycling.
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a training run in Park City, Utah. Sarah Burke Dead: Skier Dies After Accident During Training At Park City, Utah
He faces a four-year ban after failing a drugs test at the Barcelona Olympics.
This is probably the most tenuous link yet to the 2012 Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
The swimming team's in training for the Olympics.
With braillewriters ready, laptops open, and pencils sharpened, more than 45 students with visual impairments will participate in the Tenth Annual Technology Olympics.
She proved that at last year's Sydney Olympics, winning a gold medal in the heptathlon, the gruelling seven-discipline event that requires athletes to be experts in everything from hurdles to the shot put.
By then it was time for Memphis in May, which was followed by the Saint Louis Senior Olympics and, finally, the duathlon in Sylvania, Ohio. The Grace to Race
This month's Athens Olympics will become the first to be broadcast live over the Net.
Last among the rowers was my category: sliding-seat racing singles - skinny, tippy fiberglass shells nearly as long and light as those rowed in the Olympics.
The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm are best remembered for Jim Thorpe's world record successes in the most demanding track and field events, the pentathlon and the decathlon.
USA Bobsled also had to clear the Night Train decals with the International Olympic Committee, which does not allow anything resembling sponsorship logos in the Olympics. Can Steven Holcomb and 'Night Train' reach victory lane?
The Olympics ticket resale website was down for a second day yesterday as organisers admitted they did not know when it would be working again. Times, Sunday Times
One of Brazil's top equestrians, he was a member of the Brazilian showjumping team that won a bronze medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and another in 2000 in Sydney.
The Olympics were not the only games in the ancient world.
Shame 2000 is hosted at unolympics.com and will be updated throughout the three weeks of the quadrennial sports event.
Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.
Why are the custodians so detached from the true meaning of the Olympics? Times, Sunday Times
To queue is glorious," reads a new catchphrase festooned across Beijing as part of the government's frantic push to improve social etiquette for the Olympics. Archive 2008-08-10
The time is 10 seconds slower than her world record set at the Olympics two years ago.
But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay listservs by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics. 'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture
Usually it is those who seek the gratification of personal glory as well as the sound of the cash register who pump themselves full of this or that chemical, preferably one hitherto unknown to science so that the authorities, who religiously trot out the psittacine mantra that this is the most drug-free Olympics ever, are left flat-footed in their wake. Boycott the Olympics & Read Proust Instead
In fact at the Sydney Olympics they were out after the repêchage.
She blamed a quadricep injury before the 2004 Athens Olympics for destroying her chances in a race that she dropped out of with four miles to go. Times, Sunday Times
She has been suspended from office and her impeachment trial is set to take place during the Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
Impressive infrastructure was built for the Olympics and Paralympics.
The Olympics, too, fall prey to the notion propagated by football and baseball and other mainstream sports that progress is defined by something measurable. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Perhaps the reason I prefer downhill skiing, luge, cross-country, speed skating, and other such sports in the Winter Olympics is that judging vagaries don't affect them.
Aeronautical pentathlon—which inexplicably has six events—is a riff on the modern pentathlon at the Olympics. The Aeronautical Pentathlon Has Six Events—and Flying Doesn't Count
Currently almost one in five people in the UK – 9.2 million – do not have internet access, and Lane Fox is using the prospect of a digitised 2012 Olympics to try to galvanise as many people as possible to get online. Digital learning joins the race online
This original, undistorted idea of sport as a meaningful, dignified pursuit of physical excellence can be traced back to the ancient Olympics and to the various traditions of martial arts.
I was very happy to win the Olympics last time as it was the only major championship title I didn't have.
With pros playing in the Olympics, this is the last spot for pure amateurism.
He's been to the last 2 olympics, skied in world cups, faced the steepest and fastest of runs.
Most athletes who have devoted themselves to training for the Olympics will not stand on the podium seeing their national flag hoist in their honour. Times, Sunday Times
Our self-mocking domestic equivalent to America's invincible locomotive is the platoon of lawnmowers that shaved the Astroturf in the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.
Olympics gold medallists and other sports stars were unanimous yesterday in backing our call. The Sun
The Olympics were of great propaganda value to the regime.
Large events such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games are often plagued by budget overruns, slack ticket sales and venue fiascos but bad publicity about Manchester has been notably absent.
Professional athletes may now compete at the Olympics.
At the '96 Olympics, the U.S. women's team so overshadowed the men that the NBA stars almost could slip in and out the back door.
The Winter Olympics received over 160 hours of television programming.
She won the individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
He broke several world swimming records at the 1996 Olympics.
The Americans had been gold medallists in every Olympics since 1992 when NBA players started competing in the Games.
BRITAIN'S swimmers are being told to curb commercial activities after flopping at the Olympics. The Sun
That's why, instead of demanding that Coca-Cola have ozone-friendly refrigeration at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Greenpeace worked out a program to have it ready by Athens in 2004. Pin-Striped Protesters
After the 1994 Olympics, Grinkov struggled with back pain, but the couple continued to skate as professionals.
Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.
He was outkicked at the '03 worlds by Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge and at the' 04 Olympics by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj. Bekele gets twofer with gold in 5,000
Exhausted cyclist Sarah Ulmer is still on a high from taking gold at the Olympics in world record time.
It is the first year that Britain has entered a rhythmic gymnastics team for qualification for an Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
I was reluctant to do the Olympics because I thought it would be a zoo.
She became the first Japanese woman to win a gold medal in the winter Olympics when she took the women's moguls event in freestyle skiing.
Drug testing wasn't begun in the Olympics until the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City; the first athlete to be disqualified was Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall — for using alcohol. USATODAY.com - Tackling longtime issue of drugs No. 2 on sports changes wish list
They had to use artificial snow at the Winter Olympics.
The things this man had experienced astounded me: he had run in the Olympics and crossed paths with Hitler; lived through ferocious aerial combat and bombardment on the ground; endured a plane crash, forty-seven days on a tiny life raft, shark attacks, a typhoon and a machine gunning from a Japanese bomber; and, after his capture, joined a daring prisoner underground while enslaved in Japanese POW camps. The New Yorker
I'm sure I heard one newsreader refer to ‘Athens, Europe’ when briefly mentioning the Olympics.
The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
Hence such costly survivals as the high-speed rail line, London's Crossrail and the grand-daddy of them all, the Olympics, whose organisers have so much surplus money they disclosed this week that they were giving their overpaid executives six-figure bonuses "to perform inspirationally". The maths of coalition has opened the door to lobbyists | Simon Jenkins
He won a silver at the last Olympics.
In June, Dayron Robles, a bespectacled Cuban, shaved one-hundredth of a second off of Liu's world record. The Chinese was going into the Beijing Olympics as the underdog.
In August, he spearheaded the Chinese national team in the Olympics.
That happy-go-lucky ethos of boarders remains so strong that some of its most talented stars refused to take part in these Olympics, claiming their creativity and freedom were threatened by an avalanche of rules.
Universal classical literacy beckons in the wake of the Athens Olympics, and philhellenes the world over must already be entertaining shy hopes for a 21st-century rebirth of neo-classicism.
Leisure Zone has a great relationship with special needs groups from the city and county and this is the second Special Olympics competition qualifiers that have been held there.
An absolutely unsymmetrical cultural relationship has been formed between various national sports cultures and Olympics.
The school has a rich history of producing members of Britain's judo team another old schoolboy finished fourth at this year's Olympics in Athens.
You should have had Thorpe, the winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics who also played Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1919.
It also has given her automatic qualification for the British team for the Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
The team she joined was made up of gymnasts who won gold medals at the Olympics in Mexico.
Online customers also will have a chance to win trips and vacation packages to Marriott Resort Hotels or a grand prize of a VIP trip to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Macey, competing in his first decathlon since the Sydney Olympics, punched the air when he saw his time on the stadium scoreboard.
It is true that in some areas glaciers are retreating, but the venues for the Winter Olympics rely more on snow fields than glaciers.
Pyeongchang, South Korea, defeated Munich and Annecy, France, and will host the 2018 Winter Olympics, bringing the Winter Games to Asia for only the third time and the first time outside Japan. Strauss-Kahn, Debt Talks, Tabloid Scandal
Green Olympics, together with hi - tech Olympics and the people's Olympics has a catchword.
Bulgaria won the quarter-final over Israel in Soccer at the 1968 Mexico Olympics in which the deciding factor was the toss of the coin.
In the 1996 Olympics, a team competition replaced the solo and duet events.
She was a great sprinter in her time winning silver and bronze medals at the 1960 Olympics and multiple golds at the 1963 Commonwealth and European Games in 1963, the year she won the award.
I was an aspiring rhythmic gymnast and this was the first time our genre of gymnastics had been included in the Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
And Ian Bone, founder of Class War, tells us that anarchists, angered by the transport arrangements for the Olympics, will contest the 2012 Greater London Authority elections. Diary
Gillett, 29, took up competitive cycling in 2000, having rowed for Australia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
The sportswear company reports a jump in sales since the Olympics.
Along the wall: snowboards signed by competitors in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Daredevil's Delight
His dream of competing in the Olympics remained unfulfilled .
The Winter Olympics feature events such as the skeleton, the bobsleigh and snowboarding, as well as traditional winter sports such as ice skating, skiing and curling.
She started the Special Olympics for athletes with mental disabilities.
Reuters reported that Chinese officials are upset by reports April 10 that Tibet protesters attempted to attack Jin Jing, a Paralympics fencer and Olympics torch bearer who uses a wheelchair, but China has embraced her as a hero for protecting the torch. Disabled Olympic torch bearer attacked in Paris becomes hero in China
With technology what it is, the promise was there for more live broadcast coverage than in the history of the Olympics.
Historians of the ancient Olympics have always questioned how hand-held weights called halteres depicted on many Greek vases and found at sporting sites all over Greece were used. Leapin' Olympians
Venturini has scored the first goal in each of the two US victories in the Olympics.
Comparing a Summer Olympics with a Winter Olympics can be apples to oranges, but it's still illustrative of the point: The IOC is not close to 50-50. Jacques Rogge's IOC no advocate for women athletes
Sang , who uses a wheelchair, is an official torchbearer for the 2008 Olympics.
As an amateur, she was ineligible for prize money, and her winnings were donated to the Special Olympics.
SARAJEVO has not looked this good since it hosted the winter Olympics in 1984.
The Olympics can make sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes.
The result has been more blue - sky days during the Olympics than smoggy ones.
According to The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics, 94 percent of curlers are Canadian.
I hope Chinese Taipei baseball team will take first place at the Beijing Olympics.
Many Olympic revellers will be celebrating the start of the Olympics at Athena's on the Pier.
This Saturday the British star is going for gold in the Winter Olympics.
Many are carried away with those bewitching sports of gaming, hawking, hunting, and such vain pleasures, as [4526] I have said: some with immoderate desire of fame, to be crowned in the Olympics, knighted in the field, &c., and by these means ruinate themselves. Anatomy of Melancholy
World records tumbled at the last Olympics.
For him it's the Olympics or bust.
His victory sealed the success of those Games and justified the revival of the Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
At the last Olympics, sports seemed to be less important than the blatant commercialism of the merchandise suppliers.
The early conference symbol's art layout and the Olympics picture poster are very similar.
Athens will see more dope tests than any previous Olympics.
As the 19-year-old raced in the heats he picked up his eighth medal at a single Olympics equalling Russian gymnast Alexsander Dityatin's feat in 1980.
Her father coached her for the Olympics.
A newsticker will keep shoppers informed and, during the next Olympics or eastern blackout, curious perambulators can gather round the centrally-located flatscreen.
The biennial is the Olympics of the contemporary art world, a century-old tradition in which countries send in their best artists to exhibit in pavilions and palazzos across the city. The Art World’s Olympics
She recalled hanging out with him at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and spoke glowingly of his love for skiing and pushing limits. Julia Mancuso clarifies, says she is not feuding with Lindsey Vonn
Bobcat Olympics: Killam placed a video camera overlooking a weir, that is, a chute-like apparatus positioned in a creek to funnel migrating salmon upstream to spawning habitat. Signs of the Times
Atlanta, the 1996 Olympics host city from July 19 to Aug. 4, offers a wealth of diversions.
This drugs scandal is another blot on the Olympics.
Introducing slam poetry to the Olympics will bring a healthy dose of cynicism to the proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
Lewis is in serious training for the Olympics.
Four years later, she became the first person to medal in both a swimming and diving event in the Olympics.
With the economy once again on the move and the Olympics and World Cup on the way, there is a certain something in the Rio air right now; a swagger that can be felt not only in Ipanema's luxurious nightspots, but also in the city's impoverished slums – favelas – and remote Amazonian towns where shopping malls and cinemas are sprouting from the ground with growing pace. Lula's Brazil: glitzy, rich, dynamic
MCKAY: While thrilled to be here, Teklemariam is certainly realistic when it comes to the chances of medalling in his and Ethiopia's first Winter Olympics. CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2006
As athletes prepare for the Olympics, sporting organizations are looking for big sponsorship deals to pay for the trip to Sydney.
She won bronze at the Olympics.
The colour-coded branding will accompany the whole of the BBC's coverage – orange for the 70-day torch relay and gold for the Olympics itself although no word on whether this will imperceptibly transmogrify into bronze, depending on the performance of Team GB. Media Monkey's diary
She is training for the Olympics
The man who closed the net on drug cheats at the Olympics warns that even tougher action to clean up sport is still to come
The Winter Olympics received over 160 hours of television programming.
With obviously limited spectator value it swiftly sank without trace before the next Olympics.
Unlike the Olympics, training is optional and competitors are not subjected to doping tests.
The Olympics climaxed in a spectacular closing ceremony.
You only had to witness Ferguson work himself into a fury over Ronaldo's participation in the Olympics to gauge the Portuguese's importance to the team.
They are the rays of sunshine burning through the haze of an Olympics snarled by glitches and shattered by a bomb.
I thought, another two, three years, next Olympics maybe... Anyway, what are you doing now? THE ONLY GAME
You know me – I'm no jingoistic America-first chowderhead, and proved it during the last Olympics, but this, my friends, is a load of crap. General tso's checkin'
Indonesia will send 14 players to the Olympics, consisting of two in the men's singles, six in the men's doubles, four in the mixed doubles and two in the women's doubles.
The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
My dream is to go to the Olympics in London and win that gold. Times, Sunday Times
He won a silver at the last Olympics.
Tax breaks for being old, disabled, having a green* car or, I don't know, training for the Olympics or something all seem fair enough but financial incentive to get hitched or stay hitched is just so wide of the mark. Love and Marriage
If that weren't true, I may have squeamishly helped out at Special Olympics once or twice.
Her battling performance in the omnium was a boost for Britain ahead of London 2012, although in the Olympics the event will be held over the course of the track programme rather than a single day, and incorporate a sixth 'elimination' discipline. BBC - Ouch
Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.
In Sydney last September she became the first female track and field athlete to win five medals in a single Olympics.
Eastman Kodak is a major sponsor of the Olympics.
I will not open my big gob and make a snap decision in the overheated atmosphere of the Olympics.
He won a bronze medal for Britain in the 1952 Olympics.
It is the first year that Britain has entered a rhythmic gymnastics team for qualification for an Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
We were fighting with untried, young horses that weren't ready to go to the Olympics.

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