The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

The Pythian Games were held in Apollo's honor every four years at Delphi.

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

On the day that the Circus Games occurred, Caligula had a statue made of Agrippina ’ s image to be paraded in a covered carriage at the Games.

Later that year at the Secular Games, at the performance of the Troy Pageant, Messalina attended the event with her son Britannicus.

* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

In 1900 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.

A Rikbaktsa archer competes at Brazil's Indigenous Games

Spanish and international movies such as Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann, Manolete by Menno Meyjes have been shot there.

The higher seed plays at home in Games 1 and 2.

The higher seed plays at home in Games 1 and 2.

Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations.

Bowls is played at the Commonwealth Games ; the last being held in Delhi, India, where Natalie Melmore ( England ) and Robert Weale ( Wales ) won the singles Gold Medals.

* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.

There is a game called Casey at the Bat in the Games of the Boardwalk at the Disneyland Resort's Disney's California Adventure.

In classical Greece, celery leaves were used as garlands for the dead, and the wreaths of the winners at the Isthmian Games were first made of celery before being replaced by crowns made of pine.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

Davis Mwale qualified at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, while Ellis Chibuye qualified at the African Boxing Championships in Botswana, but neither survived the first round in the Olympic Games.

* The Official Price Guide to Classic Video Games ( ISBN 0-375-72038-3 ) by David Ellis

Danny Murtaugh wanted to save his two ace pitchers, Steve Blass and Dock Ellis, for Games 6 and 7 ( if necessary ), so he went with spot starter / reliever Nelson Briles in this game.

As an avid classic arcade game collector, Ellis is also the author of The Official Price Guide to Classic Video Games, an authoritative work covering all the ins and outs of collecting classic arcade games, handheld electronic games and classic video game consoles.

* Domino 60 Traditional Children's Songs, Games, Proverbs, and Culture From the United States Virgin Islands by Karen Ellis © 1990 plus 45 minute Live Sound Field Recording © 1979 Registration Number TXu 822-111

The town is home to the New Hampshire Highland Games and to a portion of Franconia Notch State Park.

The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, including the 3rd / 4th place play-off.

The Arms Park hosted the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, which was used for the athletics events, but this event caused damage to the drainage system, so much so, that other rugby unions ( England, Scotland and Ireland ) complained after the Games about the state of the pitch.

The building is part of the Tucker Park enhancement project, which will include the refurbishment of the Canada Games Stadium, the new Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick facility, and the New Brunswick Community College ’ s Allied Health building.

A second artificial track was constructed near Park City, Utah for the 2002 XIX Winter Olympic Games at Salt Lake City.

* 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum in Park City, Utah

The Luge competition at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games was held at Utah Olympic Park in Park City.

The crowd at the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games Opening Ceremonies in Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.

After his victories at the Olympic Games in Sweden, on September 2, 1912, he returned to Celtic Park, the home of the Irish American Athletic Club, in Queens, New York ( where he had qualified four months earlier for the Olympic Games ), to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's All-Around Championship.

* Dr. Hyde Park, a Gaelic Games ground in Roscommon, Ireland

The Adirondack Park contains thousands of streams, brooks and lakes, most famously Lake Placid, adjacent to the village of Lake Placid, two-time site of the Winter Olympic Games, the Saranac Lakes, favored by the sportsmen who made the Adirondacks famous, and Raquette Lake, site of many of the first Great Camps.

In television, the most notable mockumentaries in the 2000s have been: ABC Australia's The Games ( 1998 – 2000 ), Trailer Park Boys ( 2001-2008 ), the British shows Marion and Geoff ( 2000 ), Twenty Twelve ( 2011-2012 ) ( which follows the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, The Office ( 2001 ) and its many international offshoots, Come Fly with Me ( 2010 ), which follows the activity at a fictional airport and its variety of staff and passengers.

The Olympic Park ( Olympiapark ) is based on Frei Otto's plans and after the Games became a Munich landmark.

Leyton borders the Olympic Park for the 2012 Olympic Games.

* The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will have their main base at the Olympic Park, which will contain a significant number of venues including the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, and London Velopark.

A new university is planned on the Olympic Park following the 2012 Olympic Games.

On March 2, 2006, the Crystal Lake Park District voted to reject the Gay Games ' application to use the lake for their rowing events, after a meeting where over one hundred residents spoke before the board.

The Gay Games indicated they might seek legal action against the city and the Park District, citing a recently-passed Illinois law which prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Games will be played at Apodoca Park from May to August.

Other attractions in the city include the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, which features an Olympic size swimming pool and had been used for the 1990 Goodwill Games, and Celebration Park, with sports fields and wooded trails.

In North America, certain parks ( D-Day Adventure Park, Bigfoot Paintball ) gained worldwide recognition with their Big Games like Oklahoma D-Day, & Mega War Game, with its thousands of players.