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Olympics English
Meaning Olympics meaning
What does Olympics mean?
Olympics
Synonyms Olympics synonyms
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Topics Olympics topics
What do people use Olympics to talk about?
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Examples Olympics examples
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Simple sentences
Spain is the host country for the Olympics in 1992.
Japan has been sending her athletes to the Olympics since 1912.
Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
World War II ended and the Olympics were revived in 1948 in London, but the losing countries of the war, Germany and Japan, were not invited.
He is one of the British hopefuls for the London Olympics.
Japan has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1912.
Will you watch the Olympics?
Employees are prohibited from watching the Olympics.
He's watching the Olympics.
She's watching the Olympics.
I'm watching the Olympics.
The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, even though it's one of the only places in Russia where there is no snow in winter.
Konstantin Ernst was the creative director of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
The athletes trained hard every day to be at their best for the Summer Olympics.
The most important thing in the Olympics is not to win but to participate.
How many times has Japan hosted the Olympics?
Sixty-five countries boycotted the 1980 summer Olympics.
Norway is leading the Sochi Olympics medal count.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are now over.
Russia won the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics medal count.
Movie subtitles
I've invented a diamond formation that I used at the Olympics, called the diamond formation.
Like an athlete training for the Olympics, she counted every calorie, went to bed every night at nine.
Marie and I was going to the Olympics.
You made better time getting away than they make in the Olympics.
Now, these championships are held every other year with the Olympics taking their place every fourth year.
No, see, we're thinking ahead two years. For the Olympics.
The Olympics.
The Olympics ain't for money.
I would never dream of jeopardizing your amateur standing with the Olympics, Mr Creech.
I want you to win the Olympics using my skis.
I would never dream of jeopardizing your amateur standing, but I want you to win the Olympics using my skis so that I can advertise my gold medal at the Olympics.
Well, it's like you say, they. - Actually, our girls have done. Done better in the Olympics than the men.
You're damn right. We've got two top racers. Either one of them could win the Olympics.
One of us should've counted the steps. Maybe we've qualified for the Olympics.
In sports today, the 10,000-metre record set by Arounayev in the 1968 Olympics was broken by a 19-year-old Swede.
Do you recall the 1936 Olympics in Berlin?
I once showed them in the Olympics in Greece how to do it.
You showed us in the Greek Olympics, huh?
He rowed single sculls in the 1928 Olympics.
Training for the Olympics?
Not at all, in fact, the selector's choice for the next Olympics.
It is obvious they picked the Olympics in order to draw maximum attention to their political grievances over Palestine.
The International Olympics Committee must be informed.
The world cannot stay blind to the tragedy of Palestine here at the Olympics.
This is still the Olympics, gentlemen.
How do you think Strandberg is doing in the Olympics?
The contests in South Africa, in Pretoria. are the most important or prestigious amateur contests in the world. the IFBB Mr. Universe contest. which is amateur, open to amateur athletes. Sort of along the guidelines of the Olympics.
The Olympics should help the economy. but there's no telling if we'll see the benefits in textiles.
I. haven't left this town even once, since the Tokyo Olympics.
Think of the Olympics.
Can you get me a ticket for the Olympics?
We're talking Olympics, Diane.
You should have been at the Olympics in St. Mouritz in 1952.
He died of a heart attack. '76 Olympics.
For the Olympics.
That's about 2 km south of the Olympics construction site in the old city.
You training for the Olympics?
Well, then, ladies and gentlemen, a big A Bit hand for Sally Cooke, captain of the British Winter Olympics synchronised losing team!
News and current affairs
That would explain why the Party has crushed them - and why any decent participant in this summer's Olympics should demand their immediate release.
They sought to stage an Olympics that made manifest their image of themselves, and Speer Jr., looking back to his father's mastery of the architecture of power, delivered the goods.
The history of drugs, and drug control, at the Olympics is discouraging - a farrago of ill-informed rules, outright state-sponsored cheating, and half-hearted and erratic attempts at enforcement.
Look for China to provoke more incidents once the Olympics are over.
In the 1970's, the Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics and attacks by groups like the Red Brigades galvanized world attention at the cost of dozens of lives.
China saw in the Olympics a symbolic opportunity to consolidate and celebrate its new status in the world.
At some level, we all pretend to tune into the Olympics to admire human athleticism.
In fact, in the Olympics, India's record has declined over time.
But even that is a larger population base than a hundred countries that do better than India at the Olympics.
Panicked by deadlines for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the government managed to clear the import of foreign construction workers (though the decision had to make its way through a half-dozen ministries).
STANFORD - Millions of people worldwide watched the athletic achievements at the Sochi Olympics and the opening and closing ceremonies' majestic portrayals of Russian history and culture.
Hosting the Olympics boosts performance before the hosted Games, and has effects that outlast them.
One can treat this claim with a certain degree of skepticism - after all, the 2004 Athens Olympics failed to produce a Greek economic miracle.
Rather than boycott Beijing, the world's leaders should embrace the Olympics and what they represent.
Growing talk - both in Europe and America - about boycotting the Olympics (or the opening ceremony) has proven utterly ineffective in influencing China's behavior in Tibet.
That happens at the Olympics, too, of course.
But the Olympics is a smorgasbord of sports, each with its core of devotees, who often cheer on their favorites at the same time, but separately, in different arenas.
This may help explain why T3 in Beijing is such a success, and why Chinese are now more united than ever before in condemning attempts to hijack or sully the Olympics for ulterior motives.
The catalytic and inspirational possibilities of events like the Olympics thus have a wider role to play, one that might just help prevent us from staggering and collapsing under the weight of our environmental degradation.
Indeed, the domestic crackdown on human-rights activists undercut the soft-power gains of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The wonderful Olympics sites in Beijing were no accident, but rather a result of the system.
This summer's Olympics in Beijing will be no less political, but will it resemble Berlin or Seoul?
As the Beijing Olympics approach, what the Chinese seem to want most - that the Games herald China's return as a leader among nations - appears close to slipping from their grasp.
Chinese leaders must in turn work to prevent China's national narrative from returning to one of victimization, even if problems surrounding the Olympics emerge, as they likely will.
Indeed, it is hard to imagine that the British will care as much, or go to such extremes, for the London Olympics in 2012.
China's leaders view the Olympics not only as a national celebration, but also as the greatest national coming-out party in history.
China blocks it from participating fully in the international arena, whether through the World Trade Organization, the Olympics, or the UN's specialized agencies, including the World Health Organization.
Why such a drive to prove to the world that these had to be the very best Olympics ever?
Many Chinese, however, came to view pro-Tibetan protests in Paris, London, San Francisco, Delhi, and elsewhere as an effort to sabotage the Olympics and keep China down after almost two centuries of perceived national humiliation.
China's rulers see the Olympics as a stage for demonstrating to the world the exceptional vitality of the country they have built over the past three decades.
Totalitarian regimes - the Nazis, the Soviets in 1980, and now the Chinese - desire to host the Olympics as a way to signal to the world their superiority.