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"was in 1776 AD,"
is a broken link and surely this date is wrong? I have not edited it because I don't know the original value.
I am changing the sentence "A special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, were established in 1924." to "A special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was established in 1924." This is a small change, to correct a gramatical error, hopefully this will not create any problems. -- Ironchef8000 18:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Could someone explain the medal counting method the IOC uses vs. what's used by the U.S. (and perhaps other country's) media? Or is this / does this belong somewhere else? 128.230.233.30 02:39, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
The Amateur Athletic Foundation has recently (February 2006) published an online newsletter mentioning several factual errors in this and other Olympics-related articles. See Amateur Athletic Foundation's Sports Letter Vo. 17 No. 1. Crunch 17:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
The 3rd point of the sportsletter is exactly what I asked about in my response here to User:Aliter at 02:31, on 21 Feb 2005 (it is in Archive now). I asked for sources: What "most historians" you are speaking about, sources, please?. A year have passed, but nothing was changed - nobody provided sources for it and the following excerpt is still present in the article with no sources cited: "...is further complicated since the IOC no longer recognises the Intercalated Games which it originally organised and which most historians do count among the Olympic games".
Yes, I could edit the article, but I didn't want to do this unilaterally, I waited until thinking people will support me, because citing sources is one of the stated basic principles of Wikipedia. No one did for a year. Now AAFLA pointed out to you, that this principle is violated, and your question, folks "why don't they edit the article themselves?" sounds silly to me. Think of it, please. Cmapm 22:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Hmm. The 6th their point reveal, that the article, which I created USSR at the Summer Olympics was much closer to the truth, than this one. I'll adjust my article to be more precise in the nearest future. Cmapm 19:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Cmapm, Please DO NOT EVER edit, let alone ALTOGETHER REMOVE, another editor's post on a Talk page as you did to my post here in the Revision at 14:00 on 20 February 2006. What possibly was your reason? Crunch 20:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Photographs of Olympic medals would be a nice addition to this article.
Just a thought.
Given that this is an FA, I am quite shocked that there is currently not at least a paragraph on here giving information about what happens at an Olympics Closing Ceremony, including the "Antwerp Ceremony". Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:12, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
see Talk:Olympic User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 01:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I can understand why someone would want to make the recent edit to the introduction that added the statement " finally female participants could take part", but to just toss it in as an unreferenced sentence fragment is pretty bad. I scanned through a couple of articles looking for mention of when women first participated in any of the games and I didn't find mention of this. I do agree it's an important thing to include, but could someone flesh the addition out? For instance, the first participation in various events is mentioned in Winter Olympic Games but not the first participation of women in any Winter Olympic Games. It should be mentioned here, in this article, and on each of the Winter and Summer Olympic Games articles. There is mention in Ancient Olympic Games of the first participation of women, but no such mention for the modern games. Thanks for expanding on this some. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 16:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
The table here is horrible! Being a featured article, I suggest that this be split into two tables; one for the winter and summer games. This would make them both appealing, and readible (as the skipping of lines here and there throws me off, myself). If someone wants to do this, be bold and go ahead. Let me know if you can't and I'll do it myself. Thanks! -- J @ red [T]/ [+] 22:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I've split the tables and added some flags - hope that was sort of what you were thinking. Would be good to get it looking better though.-- Nunners 23:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
See my rationale behind this change here. → J @ red 14:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I've taken a crack at rewriting/reorganizing the end of the section entitled "Olympic Champions and Medalists." The paragraph first came to my attention because it addressed the reader with a rhetorical question, but then I decided it probably needed to be improved all around in tone, organization, etc. So I added a new header, changed the link a bit, and rewrote the paragraph. Let me know what you think, and feel free to tweak it as you wish. E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Was it or is planned any olympics in an islamic country?-- Nixer 11:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there an article or section somewhere that details the bid processes of the IOC? It would be interesting to have this somewhere for the people who would like to know how the host cities get chosen. → J @ red 20:09, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
The information in this paragraph is important and should be stated, but at the moment it reeks of POV:
May 2006 - With two-and-a-half years to go until the start of the 2008 Olympics to be held in Beijing China, the Chinese government recently placed a $1 billion rush order for endangered rainforest timbers from Indonesia's Papua province to be used in construction for the games. A proposed timber processing factory would industrially harvest 800,000 cubic meters of the famous and threatened merbau (intsia spp) rainforest timbers, to be exported to China for the construction of sports facilities. Indonesia's Papua province on the island of New Guinea has some of the world's last remaining large intact rainforests. These rainforests are millions of years old, contain untold biodiversity and evolutionary history, and provide critical regional and global ecosystem processes including climate regulation through their storage of massive amounts of carbon. These priceless ancient rainforests have come under severe pressure from the rampant illegal logging of merbau and granting of massive logging concessions. China already consumes almost all of the estimated 300,000 cubic meters of merbau smuggled out of Papua every month.It is surely against the Olympic ideals of bringing "people together in peace to respect universal moral principles" when the events are housed in facilities constructed with ancient rainforest timbers of questionable legality and morality. [1] 06:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Please provide a source for this analysis if you want to add it. -- Jonel | Speak 14:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
There has been an idea brought up to change pages such as Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics to Canoeing/Kayaking at the 2004 Summer Olympics or something of the like. Please see this page for more on the proposal. → J @ red 19:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
The Arcticle under the 'doping' section said "For example, the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Games, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his coach, even during the race." If you read the arcticle on strychnine, you will find that is in fact a very deadly substance... ( Andyops 11:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC))
I went to the offical Olympic website and found that the term "Yachting" was used up to the 1996 Atlanta Games. Afterwards it was changed to "Sailing". [ This is my reference]. I have gone back and made some changes until I stumbled across Sailing at the Summer Olympics. Since I am a relative neophyte in wikipedia, I have no idea how to make the necessary changes. I think it would be appropriate that in each page devoted to Yachting and then Sailing in each edition of the Olympic games, a note should be made telling the reader of such a name change.
I have removed the paragraph
"In 1968 (Montreal), alot of African nations boycotted the Games because New Zealand were continuing to play cricket with South Africa, who still had apartheid. The boycott was in opposition to any kind of sporting interaction with the country with apartheid."
This needs work. Montreal never held the Olympics in 1968. Mexico City did. Or was the writter in fact refering to the Montreal Olympics, but didn't get the year right? How much is "alot of African countries"? Any exact figures?
I personally assume the reason 5-8th is necessary is in case of doping and other problems. If two are disqualified, then there will be no bronze without 5 (depending on how many are disqualified of course). To be fair, the necessary of 7 and 8 seems low but I guess it's just more convinient. It is also useful for countries (esp less successful ones) etc to have classifications I guess Nil Einne 15:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
This is my opinion, but this point of view is missing from all articles about Steve Prefontaine, Bill Bowerman, Avery Brundage, Nike, the AAU and the Olympic Games.
Like it or not, Steve's winning case against the AAU set a precedent for the Olympics that inevitably led to several things, among which: The inclusion of professional basketball players as US team members, The fierce competition for titles as a means to make large sums of money, The sponsorship of players by corporations (notably Nike), The attack on Nancy Kerrigan by Tanya Harding, spurred on by lust for fame and money
The last item is admittedly a controversial statement. I believe Harding wouldn't have gotten as far if there were no financial rewards at the end of the journey.
The sad part is, Americans under the Avery Brundage rules were 'pure athletes', and we constantly complained about having to compete against athletes from nations that sponsored their athletes in a manner we weren't allowed to. In spite of that, we had a lot of winners.
The other sad part about it is Brundage's stand for amateurism was tainted by his support of the Nazi regime before WWII, and for his lack of recognition of the felled Israeli athletes in Munich. In this way Brundage's taint and Prefontaine's court case against the AAU destroyed the spirit of the Olympics.
I would appreciate someone with knowledge adding this footnote to the above articles.
Unfortunately, the German national flag in 1936 was the Nazi flag, as you can see in the article Flag of the Nazi Germany. I have edited the image.
For Beijing 2008, why do we only put Hongkong as the co-host city? There are other co-host cites too, such as Qingdao and Shanghai. http://en.beijing2008.com/21/65/column212006521.shtml
is repeated. -- Howard the Duck 09:11, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
There is a title in the uppermost region of the article which is called "==somethingsomething==", thus with the quotes not displayed as a full headline. I can't seem to be able to edit this - might someone else remove the quotes? 213.161.190.228 08:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
What about people who have access to better nutrients, or access to better training equipment, or cleaner environment, or stable homes, etc. That would also tip the scale to that persons favour. You can't 'even' everyone one out. It's an impossibility. Drugs should be no different then a person in one country who get's to eat more vitamins than a poor athlete who get's none.
-G
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.117.157.66 ( talk • contribs) 05:15, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
The opening paragraph to the article states that Australia and Greece are the only counntries to have participated in all Summer Olympics. However, searching through the individual pages for each games suggests that France and Great Britain have also been ever-present. Does anyone have an objection to including this information? Parslad
shouldnt there be any mention of the Alaskan olympics, (the PROBABLY now defunct) Martial Arts Olympics, and the Special Olympics the one for Handicap people, as well as many other official alternate olympics? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.76.96.12 ( talk) 06:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC).