They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics were held at the same site.

Sixty five countries boycotted the 1980 summer Olympics.

The Games were the first to be held in a different year from the Summer Olympics, the first and only one to be held two years after the previous winter games, and the most recent to be held in a small town.

ZaneIrani writes that President Ahmadinejad has announced that Iran will not participate in the next Summer Olympics.

The United States has hosted eight Olympic Games, four Summer and four Winter, more than any other nation.

Timor Leste competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004.

With the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, Japan and Tokyo, respectively, will hold these statuses.

However, at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, NBC drew the lowest ratings for any Summer or Winter Olympics since 1968.

Seven months later she would earn a silver in track cycling at the Summer Games in Seoul, to become the only athlete to win medals in both a Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year.

He scored one of the goals in the game, which would eventually be one of many.

It sends delegates to international competitions such as the Olympic Games and Asian Games, and played host to the equestrian events during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

For the 1960 Olympic Games, in Rome, Guttmann brought 400 athletes to compete in the Parallel Olympics , which became known as the first Paralympics.

He's watching the Olympics.

She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami.

Maybe one of them will make it to the Olympics.

Arabs really love shopping, they spend hours after hours in malls, and that's why they wanted to show their shopping skills at this year's Summer Olympics.

It's like the Olympics of food products.

Are you coming to Rio for the Olympics?

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Chairman of the London organising committee, Sebastian Coe, said about the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, thatThe 2014 Winter Paralympic Games is the first such Paralympics hosted by Russia.

Clay won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves titles, an Amateur Athletic Union National Title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

And let the next Olympics save some lives.

He is one of the British hopefuls for the London Olympics.

Are you going to come to Rio de Janeiro in August during the Olympics?

It was the first Winter Olympics to be held outside Europe and North America, and only the third game (summer or winter) held outside those regions over all, after Melbourne (1956 Summer Olympics) and Tokyo (1964 Summer Olympics).

We do it for fun, or as Olympians, or as professionals.

Japan has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1912.

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

This post is part of our special coverage London 2012 Olympics.

The threat of terrorism has marred the lead up to the Winter Olympics.

Some of the 2016 Olympic events will be held in a neighborhood called Deodoro.

The streets of Turin were covered with red posters announcing the slogan of the Olympics.

Daisuke Nakata, a trampolinist who has competed in the Olympics in the past, is from Ishikawa.

Kon Ichikawa captured the watershed 1964 Olympics in his three hour documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965).

He won the Olympics along with his brothers Bertil and Knut Nordahl.

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And we also ask the next Olympics to be involved in saving lives.

The area is also earmarked for preparations for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

This marked the beginning of a rise in both the popularity and the size of the Olympics.

Romário is also the last player to have won the Golden Ball and the World Cup in the same tournament.

Millie, an echidna, was a mascot for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

And then we were asked to do something really big for the Olympics.

And two or three Olympics after that, they are going to be unbeatable.

The currency of Singapore is the Singapore dollar, issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Lacrosse was a demonstration sport in the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 1948 Summer Olympics.