The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Olympic Games:
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques,) 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, with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. By default, the Games generally substitute for any world championships during the year in which they take place (however, each class usually maintains its own records). The Olympics are staged every four years. Since 1994, they have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year Olympiad.
Below is a structured list of topics related to the Olympic Games:
What type of thing are the Olympic Games?
editThe Olympic Games can be described as all of the following:
History of the Olympic Games
edit- Ancient Olympic Games
- History of the modern Olympic Games
- History of the Summer Olympic Games
- 1896 Summer Olympics
- 1900 Summer Olympics
- 1904 Summer Olympics
- 1908 Summer Olympics
- 1912 Summer Olympics
- 1916 Summer Olympics
- 1920 Summer Olympics
- 1924 Summer Olympics
- 1928 Summer Olympics
- 1932 Summer Olympics
- 1936 Summer Olympics
- 1940 Summer Olympics
- 1944 Summer Olympics
- 1948 Summer Olympics
- 1952 Summer Olympics
- 1956 Summer Olympics
- 1960 Summer Olympics
- 1964 Summer Olympics
- 1968 Summer Olympics
- 1972 Summer Olympics
- 1976 Summer Olympics
- 1980 Summer Olympics
- 1984 Summer Olympics
- 1988 Summer Olympics
- 1992 Summer Olympics
- 1996 Summer Olympics
- 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2008 Summer Olympics
- 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2016 Summer Olympics
- 2020 Summer Olympics
- 2024 Summer Olympics
- 2028 Summer Olympics
- History of the Winter Olympic Games
- 1924 Winter Olympics
- 1928 Winter Olympics
- 1932 Winter Olympics
- 1936 Winter Olympics
- 1940 Winter Olympics
- 1944 Winter Olympics
- 1948 Winter Olympics
- 1952 Winter Olympics
- 1956 Winter Olympics
- 1960 Winter Olympics
- 1964 Winter Olympics
- 1968 Winter Olympics
- 1972 Winter Olympics
- 1976 Winter Olympics
- 1980 Winter Olympics
- 1984 Winter Olympics
- 1988 Winter Olympics
- 1992 Winter Olympics
- 1994 Winter Olympics
- 1998 Winter Olympics
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- 2014 Winter Olympics
- 2018 Winter Olympics
- 2022 Winter Olympics
- 2026 Winter Olympics
- History of the Summer Olympic Games
Branches of the Olympic Games
editOlympic institutions
editOlympic symbols
editOlympic competitors
editGeneral concepts of the Olympic Games
editPublications about the Olympic Games
editPersons influential in the Olympic Games
editSee also
edit- Outline of sports
- All-time Olympic Games medal table
- List of American universities with Olympic medals
- List of bids for the Summer Olympics
- List of bids for the Winter Olympics
- List of bids for the Youth Olympics
- Doping at the Olympic Games
- List of drugs banned by WADA
- List of Olympic Games host cities
- List of IOC country codes
- List of IOC meetings
- List of Olympic mascots
- List of members of the International Olympic Committee
- List of people who have lit the Olympic cauldron
- List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
- List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games
- List of people who have kept the Olympic flag
- List of people who have opened the Olympic Games
- List of results of the United States men's basketball team at the Olympics
- List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies
- Major achievements in Olympic team ball sports by nation
- List of Olympic teams by medals won
- List of Olympic torch relays
- List of Olympic venues
References
editExternal links
edit- Official website
- Olympic, an external wiki
- New York Times Interactive of all the medals in the Modern Olympics
- All the daily program and the results of the Olympics (personal website)
- insidethegames – the latest and most up to date news and interviews from the world of Olympic, Commonwealth and Paralympic Games
- ATR – Around the Rings – the Business Surrounding the Olympics
- GamesBids.com – An Authoritative Review of Olympic Bid Business (home of the BidIndex™)
- Database Olympics
- History of Olympics to the Present Day
- Dicolympic – Dictionary about the Games from Olympia to Sochi 2014
- Reference book about all Olympic Medalists of all times
- Goddess Nike and the Olympic Games: Excellence, Glory and Strife