Olympic
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In sports:
- Olympic Games The Olympic Games are a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Games are currently held every two years in even-numbered years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal, international multi-sport event held since 1896
- Olympic symbols, symbols used by the International Olympic Committee to promote the Olympic Games
- Cotswold Olimpick Games, sports event held in England since 1612
- Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια - ta Olympia; Modern Greek: Ὀλυμπιακοὶ Ἀγῶνες , Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες (Dimotiki) - Olympiakoi Agones) were a series of athletic competitions held for representatives of various city-states of Ancient Greece held in honor of Zeus. The exact origins of the Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD
- The Olympic sports The Olympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. As of 2012, the Summer Olympics will include 26 sports with 36 disciplines and about 300 events, and the Winter Olympics include 7 sports with 15 disciplines and about 80 events. The number and kinds of events may change slightly from one Olympiad to comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
- Olympic Stadium The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games. Traditionally, the opening and closing ceremonies and the track & field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. Many, though not all, of these venues actually contain the words Olympic Stadium as part of their name. The Winter, name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games
- Olympic-size swimming pool An Olympic-size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games and other "long course" events . The size is commonly used as a casual measure of volume, type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games and other "long course" events
- El-Olympi, Olympic Football Club, Egypt
In transportation:
- Olympic Air Olympic Air is the largest Greek airline by destinations served, formed from the privatization of the former national carrier Olympic Airlines. It commenced limited operations on 29 September 2009, after Olympic Airlines ceased all operations, with the official full-scale opening of the company taking place two days later, on 1 October 2009. The, private greek airline, successor to Olympic Airlines
- Olympic Airlines Olympic Airlines was the flag carrier airline of Greece, based in Athens. It operated services to 37 domestic destinations and to 32 destinations world-wide. Its main base was at Athens International Airport, with hubs at Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia" and Rhodes International Airport, "Diagoras". By December 20, state run airline of Greece in the process of ceasing all operations and successor to Olympic Airways
- Olympic Aviation Olympic Aviation was a subsidiary of Olympic Airways, the Greek national flag carrier, subsidiary of Greek flag-carrier Olympic Airways
- Olympic class ocean liner, trio of ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line
- Olympic (unfinished ship), unfinished sister ship of RMS Oceanic
- RMS Olympic RMS Olympic was the lead ship of the Olympic class ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included Titanic and Britannic. Unlike her sisters, Olympic served a long and illustrious career , including service as a troopship during World War I, earning the nickname "Old Reliable.", sister ship of the RMS Titanic
- Olympic Station Olympic Station is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue, MTR station in Hong Kong
- Naval and military
- USS Olympic (SP-260), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
In geography:
- Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state of the USA, that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Puget Sound. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape Flattery, the north-, large arm of land in western Washington state, United States, that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle
- Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains is a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. The mountains are not especially high - Mount Olympus is the highest at 7,962 ft - but the western slopes of the Olympics rise directly out of the Pacific Ocean and are the wettest place in the 48 contiguous states. The Hoh Ranger Station, mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula
- Olympic National Park Olympic National Park is located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula. The park can be divided into three basic regions: the Pacific coastline, the Olympic Mountains, and the temperate rainforest. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt originally created Olympic National Monument in 1909 and after Congress voted to authorize a, located on the Olympic Peninsula
In business:
- Olympic Paints & Stains, brand belonging to PPG Industries PPG Industries is a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, specialty materials, chemicals, glass and fiber glass. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, PPG operates in more than 60 countries around the globe. Sales in 2009 were $12.2 billion. PPG is also the world's third largest producer of chlorine and caustic soda (used in a wide
- Olympic Airlines Privatization, the ongoing privatization of the Greek airline
In the arts:
- The Olympics (band), a U.S. doo-wop band from the 1950s
- Olympic Games (film), a 1927 Our Gang Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a silent short subject series. Roach changed short
See also
- Operation Olympic, a component of Operation Downfall, a World War II military operation
- Olympia (disambiguation)
- Olympus (disambiguation)
- Olympiad An Olympiad is a period of four years, associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. In the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, Olympiads were used as calendar epoch. In this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC. By extrapolation, the 2nd year of the 697th Olympiad begins in summer 2010
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