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Olympic English

Meaning Olympic meaning

What does Olympic mean?

Olympic

of or relating to the Olympic Games Olympic winners (= Olympian) of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants Olympian plain

Synonyms Olympic synonyms

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How do I use Olympic in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The Olympic Games are held every four years.
It's an olympic record.
That's an Olympic record.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.
The Olympic Games take place at intervals of four years.
Preparations are already under way for the Olympic Games.
In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.
He took part in the Olympic Games.
They want to take part in the Olympic Games.
They want to participate in the Olympic Games.
What color is the far right ring on the Olympic flag?
Dwarf tossing is not an olympic sport.
The Olympic Games take place every four years.
In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.
The important thing about the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part in them.
A lot of countries participated in the Olympic Games.
Where did the Olympic Games originate?
He was an Olympic champion in weightlifting.
Indeed, dwarf tossing is an Olympic sport!

Movie subtitles

Where are you? -Olympic parkway.
Olympic parkway?
Well, I am an Olympic gold medal-winning coach.
I was Olympic champion, one of the best followers of last year.
I was out last year, these three Olympic guys and me.
That's the Olympic team.
The Olympic team, for me?
The entire Olympic team has to be in bed by 9:00.
You're one of the Olympic athletes.
Olympic says the Mount Temple's nearer.
The Olympic asked if we were steaming south to meet her.
You know, I don't suppose there's any honor that would give a man greater satisfaction, than to represent his country at the Olympic games.
I can imagine no greater honor than for a man to represent Ruxton Towers at the Olympic games.
You could carry it from Greece to Mexico to open the next Olympic Games.
It's quite a distance from the Olympic. So, if it was wet, the chances are, you were coming from the Great Northern.
I'm not running in the Olympic Games, you know.
I'll catch the bus at Olympic.
She went through a merciless series of treatments. Like an athlete training for the Olympic Games, she counted every calorie.
That's the Olympic team. They're sailing on this ship.
Yes. You're one of the Olympic athletes.
Olympic bronze medallist.
Oh, yes, good agricultural stuff, but hardly worthy of my place on the Olympic team.
Are you an Olympic boxer, too?
Olympic Airways, Rome. You leave in an hour.
Yes, and with you being an Olympic pistol champion.
She's the Olympic pistol champion.
Fooling with an Olympic pistol champion and a duelist?
You think the Olympic Mutual Insurance Company would go out Of business if I didn't walk through that door exactly 9:00 Every morning?
Well, it sounds a lot better than glamorous Olympic Mutual Insurance Company, Inc.
I'm John Forbes, Olympic Mutual Insurance Company.
Your Olympic Mutual what's its name doesn't advertise, Does it?
OPERATOR (ON PHONE): Olympic Mutual Insurance Company.
I'm from the Olympic Mutual Insurance Company.
Take a roll on Olympic.
Figaro and Olympic.
Could make the Olympic team.
You'll never be an Olympic champion!
Want to be an Olympic champion?

News and current affairs

From ping-pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
Ever since their reinvention by Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic Games have always been politicized.
The Olympic Games are being designed to promote this alternative model.
Its aim is to gain as much prestige as possible from the Olympic games in 2008 and the six-month World Expo in Shanghai during the spring and summer of 2010.
The realization of Speer Jr.'s Olympic vision, and that of his patrons, marks the end of a welcome interlude.
When the Olympic Games return to Greece this summer, the results at the drug testing laboratory may get as much attention as what happens at the Olympic stadium.
The US Anti-Doping Agency, for example, played a central role in uncovering a new synthetic steroid known as THG linked to a California firm catering to Olympic and professional athletes.
If we prohibit drugs in the Olympic Games, we owe it to the athletes to deter, detect, and punish those who cheat.
When we watch a sprinter set a new Olympic record in the hundred meter dash, it's not the shoes he or she wears that command our admiration. Nor is it the coaching received or the energy bar consumed just before the event.
And if Indians can be better than white and black sportsmen on the cricket field, why can't they beat them in an Olympic stadium?
And their logic was sound, if a little arrogant; only two other countries - Mexico and Germany - can count a back-to-back World Cup and Olympic Games among their achievements.
The announcement that Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic Games has also boosted public confidence.
Following the disturbances in Tibet and the troubles affecting the Olympic torch's progress around the world, some voices abroad are showing a greater inclination to dismiss, vilify, humiliate, or even split China.
Then came the riots in Tibet, which caught the government off guard, followed by embarrassing protests over China's Olympic torch relay in several Western and Asian countries.
On the government's part, the more open media in Sichuan may be mere posturing to appease critics after the Tibet upheaval and the scuffle over the Olympic torch.
And air quality was also an issue for subsequent Olympic Games in Barcelona, Atlanta, Seoul, and Athens.
Indeed, real and, one hopes, long-lasting achievements have been made by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, the city as a whole, the government, and the six provinces concerned.
One got a sense of this when China's reputation and the Games' status came under attack during the Tibetan demonstrations and protests against the Olympic torch as it made its tortured progress around the world.
This made a successful Olympic Games, when all the world would be watching, an urgent matter.
Out of the welter of dust, noise, welders' sparks, flotillas of cement mixers and construction cranes, the setting for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games is taking shape.
But to drive past the Olympic Green in Beijing will help make many Chinese believe that perhaps the center will hold in this unprecedented and unusual experiment of nation building.
True, the French had neither the Olympic Games nor a royal celebration this year; but, when it comes to the state of their economies, the two countries are largely in the same boat.
There was no mistaking the power and symbolism of the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8.
MOSCOW - When the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games begins in a few days, viewers will be presented with a minutely choreographed spectacle swathed in nationalist kitsch.
Speer Jr.'s commission was to lay out a master plan for the access to the Olympic complex in Beijing.

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