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Sites of the Modern Olympic Games

Summer Games
Year	Site

1896	Athens, Greece
1900	Paris, France
1904	St. Louis, Mo.
1908	London, England
1912	Stockholm, Sweden
1920	Antwerp, Belgium
1924	Paris, France
1928	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1932	Los Angeles, Calif.
1936	Berlin, Germany
1948	London, England
1952	Helsinki, Finland
1956	Melbourne, Australia
1960	Rome, Italy
1964	Tokyo, Japan
1968	Mexico City, Mexico
1972	Munich, West Germany
1976	Montreal, Canada
1980	Moscow, USSR
1984	Los Angeles, Calif.
1988	Seoul, South Korea
1992	Barcelona, Spain
1996	Atlanta, Ga.
2000	Sydney, Australia
2004	Athens, Greece
2008	Beijing, China
2012	London, England

Winter Games
Year	Site

1924	Chamonix, France
1928	St. Moritz, Switzerland
1932	Lake Placid, N.Y.
1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1948	St. Moritz, Switzerland
1952	Oslo, Norway
1956	Cortina, Italy
1960	Squaw Valley, Calif.
1964	Innsbruck, Austria
1968	Grenoble, France
1972	Sapporo, Japan
1976	Innsbruck, Austria
1980	Lake Placid, N.Y.
1984	Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1988	Calgary, Canada
1992	Albertville, France
1994	Lillehammer, Norway
1998	Nagano, Japan
2002	Salt Lake City, Utah
2006	Turin, Italy
2010	Vancouver, Canada
2014	Sochi, Russia

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Olympic Games

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Olympic Games an ancient Greek festival with athletic, literary, and musical competitions held at Olympia every four years, traditionally from 776 bc until abolished by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in ad 393.

In modern times, the phrase designates a sports festival held every four years in different venues, instigated by the Frenchman Baron de Coubertin (1863–1937) in 1896. Athletes representing nearly 150 countries now compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals in more than twenty sports.
Olympic village the place where the competitors in the modern Olympic games are housed for the duration of the event.

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Olympia a plain in Greece, in the western Peloponnese. In ancient Greece it was the site of the chief sanctuary of the god Zeus, the place where the original Olympic Games were held. An Olympiad was a period of four years between Olympic Games, used by the ancient Greeks in dating events.

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