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The Games are heavily controlled by Abstergo influence. In attempts to undermine Russian credibility, multiple Russian athletes have been falsely accused of doping, including tennis player Maria Sharapova, and swimmer Yulia Efimova. While the steroid usage of many American athletes have been covered up, including swimmers Michael Phelps and Lilly King, and tennis players Serena and Venus Williams.

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  • The Games are heavily controlled by Abstergo influence. In attempts to undermine Russian credibility, multiple Russian athletes have been falsely accused of doping, including tennis player Maria Sharapova, and swimmer Yulia Efimova. While the steroid usage of many American athletes have been covered up, including swimmers Michael Phelps and Lilly King, and tennis players Serena and Venus Williams.
  • The Olympics are a sporting and athletic event, originating in Greece on ancient Earth. After a lull on Earth following World War III, the event was reborn in the late 21st century. By the 22nd century, the Olympic location would alternate every two years between a Terran city and a major colony. It became a Federation-wide event in the early 2160s.
  • Animal was the mascot of the U.S. Snowboarding Team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. This was the first year that snowboarding was recognized by the Olympics, and the team adopted Animal as their mascot. The drummer also made a television appearance in Nagano with CBS reporter Kennedy, who stapled his feet to a snowboard.
  • The Tenth Doctor claimed to have visited the very first Olympics and watched naked men throwing a discus before a giant crowd. (TV: Fear Her) The First Doctor and his companions Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visited Babylon and met Alexander the Great in the Year of the 114th Olympiad, which equated to 323 BC in the Anno Domini Gregorian calendar. (AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon) The 1948 Olympics were held in London. The Doctor enjoyed it so much, he attended them twice. John Mark lit the torch. (TV: Fear Her) Read more: 2012 Olympics
  • The Olympic Games were a quadrennial interplanetary athletics competition founded by the Human civilization. The games originated in ancient Greece on the planet Earth, and were revived in the 19th century as an international competition, eventually expanding to include other worlds throughout the Federation. The 2224 Olympic Games were held on Aldebaran colony. (DS9 - The Lives of Dax short story: "Old Souls") Emony Dax was an Olympic gymnast. (DS9 episode: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", DS9 - The Lives of Dax short story: "Old Souls")
  • Even though most people are too busy playing Video Shames, there is the occasional person who actually tries a sport. These people become "Olympic Athletes", people who can actually lift their own body weight and don't reside in their parent's basement. These Olympic Athletes are famous for their ability to move when fat people and nerds can not.
  • The modern Olympic Games (French: ="fr" xml:lang="fr" >les Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting event featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered to be the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating, meaning they each occur every four years but two years apart. Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, wit
  • The Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated by a two year gap. {{main|Ancient Olymp
  • In the men's tournament, Canada was the most successful team of the first three decades, winning six of seven gold medals. Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the United States were also competitive during this period and won multiple medals. Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also counted as the Ice Hockey World Championship for that year. The Soviet Union first participated in 1956 and overtook Canada as the dominant international team, winning seven of the nine tournaments in which they participated. The United States won gold medals in 1960 and in 1980, which included their "Miracle on Ice" upset of the Soviet Union. Canada went 50 years without a gold medal, before winning one in 2002, and following it with back-to-back wins in 2010 and 2014. Other nations to win gold inc
  • The Olympics is a major multi sport event which is held every four years in a different city. It's split into summer and winter varieties which are held two years apart. The original Olympics games were held on a regular basis for around 1000 years in ancient Greece; the original Games were held in Olympia (a valley in Greece). In these ancient games only the winners were heroes, anybody who did not win would be shamed, which means most people who took part would end up shamed, no matter how close they were to winning.
  • The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. The Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated by a two year gap.
  • Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was transferred permanently to the Winter Olympic Games programme in 1924. The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics. The Olympic Games were originally intended for amateur athletes until 1988, and the National Hockey League (NHL) did not allow its players to compete until 1998. From 1924 to 1988, the tournament started with a round-robin series of games and ended with the medal round. Medals were awarded based on points accumulated during that round. The games of the tournament follow the rules of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), which differ slightly from the rules used in the NHL. The tournament follows the Wo
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