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Olympic Games

A community portal about Olympic Games with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Olympic Games or Olympics is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games.

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If Nissan had its way, the London 2012 Olympics would have been teaming with electric vehicles. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) had chosen BMW to supply more than 4,000 vehicles for the games, only a small fraction of which will be electric. Nissan criticizes the London 2012 organizing committee [...] Read Full Story
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Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has today announced that BMW has become the Automotive Partner of London 2012. Read Full Story
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Picabo Street, Olympic Gold Medalist In part one of my Winter Olympics blog, I profiled Mike Eruzione , the captain of the 1980 U.S. “Miracle On Ice” Hockey Team. In this blog you’ll learn about Picabo Street , one of the greatest American skiers of all-time. The next blog will feature figure skater Dorothy Hamill . A three-time Olympian, Street joined the U.S. Ski Team in 1989 and earned a silver medal at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in ­the downhill. She made her mark at Olympic history at Negano in 1998 by taking gold in the super G by a mere hundredth of ... Read Full Story
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The Olympics Games are a major international sports and cultural festival to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The 2016 Olympics Announcement of Which city host 2016 Summer Olympics. The host city of the Games will be announced at the 121st IOC Session to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Today, October 2, 2009. The 2016 Summer olympics will be held in the same city and organized by the same committee. The host bidding Four major cities are Chicago, Tokyo, Ro and Madrid. Today Just before noon the decision of 2016 Olympics Announcement, ... Read Full Story
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Michael Phelps' poor run of form continued Sunday as he came second in the 200m individual medley at the shortcourse World Cup while his arch-rival Paul Biedermann broke the 200m freestyle world record. South Africa's Darian Townsend beat the star of the Beijing Olympics with a new world record in the 200m individual medley final of 1 mins 51.55secs, compared to Phelps' time of 1:53.70, to break Ryan Lochte's previous record. The defeat came just hours after Phelps failed to qualify for the 200m freestyle final and missed his chance for revenge against new world-record holder Biedermann. Phelps, 24, suffered the first defeat in ... Read Full Story
DANA POINT - Olympians Dawn Harper and Torri Edwards will join more than 11,000 people for the Dana Point Turkey Trot, according to a news release. Harper was a U.S. gold medalist in 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Edwards has...  
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BMW has been given a fairly impressive international branding opportunity: the company was just announced as the automotive partner of London 2012, which includes the upcoming Olympic games and Paralympic games. As part of the arrangement, BMW will provide roughly 4,000 vehicles to move athletes, officials, and others around the city during ..  
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Coworker #1: Rio de Janeiro just won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games.Coworker #2: Is that like a perfume?Charles City, Iowa Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2009-11-19  
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HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An impressive list of world-class athletes, including a number of Beijing Olympic gold medallists, will compete in the 2009 East Asian Games (EAG) in Hong Kong from December 5-13. Heading the list are 2008 synchronised three-metre springboard Olympic gold medallists Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia, current Olympic badminton men’s singles champion Lin Dan, and 2004 Olympic 110-metres hurdles champion Liu Xiang from China...  
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LONDON (AP) -- Fifteen months after the Beijing Olympics, Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified because of doping at the games.  
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Davide Rebellin – who tested positive for the banned blood booster CERA – may lose his Olympic medal after all. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) is finally making moves to strip Rebellin of the silver medal he scored in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Officials said Tuesday that CONI is acting on the recommendation of the International Olympic Committee and will officially open a disciplinary inquiry against the veteran classics...  
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(AP) — Patrick G. Ryan will continue his efforts to expand Olympic sports in Chicago, even after the city lost its bid for the 2016 Games. Ryan was named chairman of the board Thursday of World Sport Chicago, the bid's legacy organization. The group is dedicated to increasing participation in ...  
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2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro: Will the City Be Safe? (TIME): "Just two weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said between delirious sobs in Copenhagen that the International Olympic Committee's decision to award the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro was a vindication of Brazil's social and economic advances." Last Saturday, "at least 14 people were killed and eight more were injured after violent shootouts between...  
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Colorado Springs, CO - U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, is encouraging students with physical disabilities who promote physical fitness in their daily lives to apply for the 2010 Paralympic Experience in Vancouver.  
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Less than a month after Rio de Janeiro's election as the host of the 2016 Olympic Games, a delegation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has paid the new host city a visit (30-31 October), as it continues to lay the groundwork for successful Games.  
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