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What are the Olympics?

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The Olympic Games, or Olympics for short, is an international athletic and sports competition held every 4 years in Summer in a different country, with the Winter Olympic Games held every 4 years too, but right in-between the Summer Olympic Games calendar, so both events alternate every 2 years.

It follows the tradition of the ancient Olympian Games which were held in Greece.

the Olympics is a sporting event that people come from all over the world to play or just to watch.

It is played in a different country every time its played

(e.g Japan 1987) (Brazil 2001)

The winner of the sport gets a gold medal, second gets a silver medal, third gets a bronze medal.

Summer Olympics:

Come every 4 years meaning that they always come on an 'even numbered' year. They do summer sports and all year round sports but not winter ('snowy and icy') sports. Here are the years and venues of recent Olympics and Olympics in the near future (Please fill these in):

1976- Montreal, Canada, North America

1980- Moscow, Russia, Asia

1984- Los Angeles, USA, North America

1988- Seoul, Korea, Asia

1992- Barcelona, Spain, Europe

1996- Atlanta, USA, Northe America

2000- Sydney, Australia, Oceania

2004- Athens, Greece, Europe

2008- Beijing, China, Asia

2012- London, England, UK, Europe

2016- ?

2020- ?

Winter Olympics:

Come every 4 years like the Summer ones. These do have the 'snowy and icy' sports and come exactly between the summer ones so for example, the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics were two years before the Beijing ones and two years after the Athens Olympics. There is always a 2 year gap between the two different types of Olympics.

Summer Olympics

2 years

Winter Olympics

2 years

Summer Olympics

2 years

Winter Olympics

etc...

A list of the Winter Olympics that are either recent or in the near future:

1994- Lillehammer, Norway, Europe

1998- Nagano, Japan, Asia

2002- Salt Lake, USA, North America

2006- Turin, Italy, Europe,

2010- Vancouver, Canada, North America

2014- Sochi, Russia, Asia

2018- ?

2022- ?

NB: Please fill in the above spaces when the countries have been chosen

Check out countries bids on sites like Wikipedia if you want to see the possible venues for the next Olympics. Please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_bid
The Olympics are a time every four years for either summer or winter for each country that participates to come in one city and try to compette in games to win bronze, sliver, or gold1
you mean what are the Olympics. They are still happening. The Olympics are a competition of all the countries in the world.

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