All of the games would be International Olympic Games ; the difference was that half of them would follow Coubertin's idea of organisati international, while the other half would follow the Greeks ' idea of a permanent home with the Greek NOC as experienced organizers.

The organizers decided the bobsled events did not warrant the cost to build a venue, so for the first and only time bobsled was not on the Winter Olympic program.

However, despite the long and established history of using " paralympic " terminology, in the United States the US Olympic Committee prohibited the Games organizers from using the term.

Several racers had complained that the downhill course was too easy, and Olympic organizers had made several changes to it.

The SJA represents the British sports media on the British Olympic Association's press advisory committee and acts as a consultant to organizers of major events who need guidance on media requirements as well as seeking to represent its members ' interests in a range of activities.

In the 2004 Athens Olympic marathon, Tergat missed his water point and drank water supplied by organizers.

This first act of the Opening Ceremony was called " Calling to the Ancient Olympic Spirits " by the organizers: the comet symbolizes the fire of the ancients giving life to the modern Olympic movement, thus bridging the past and the present together.

Soldier Hollow's location within the state park did not carry a name until Olympic organizers coined it Soldier Hollow.

The AAU decided to withdraw Thorpe's amateur status retroactively and asked the International Olympic Commission ( IOC ) to do the same.

It is considered to be a great honor to be asked to light the Olympic flame.

Dion's status on the world stage was further solidified when she was asked to perform " The Power of the Dream " at the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

Fearing the possibility of Speedo-clad race winners being stripped of medals due to challenges, the Australian Olympic Committee ( AOC ) asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to examine the legality of the FINA-sanctioned suits.

Early in 1932, he wrote to General Eoin O ' Duffy, then the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland, and asked to be considered for the Irish Olympic Team in the 400 metres hurdles and he also confessed that he had not previously run in the event.

It was Steinbrenner who asked for a lifetime ban as he was tired of baseball and wanted to help run the US Olympic effort.

Steinbrenner knew he could not run the Olympic effort if he was suspended, so he asked for a lifetime ban, which he received.

In 1999, Done was asked to create a series of works for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies programs of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

They asked him to present an address on Sport as a Teacher at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin ’ s Olympic stadium.

Clarke was apparently a former Olympic champion, but ducked the question whenever asked about which event.

He followed that up with a first in the Olympic Trials, then went to Berlin and won the Olympic gold medal in the 400 m. When asked about the infamous incident in which Adolf Hitler reportedly refused to shake the hand of black fellow gold medalist Jesse Owens, Williams replied, “ Hitler wouldn't shake my hand either .”

The National Olympic Committee for Great Britain and Ireland asked the Football Association to send an English national amateur team.

Martinez, having some Greek ancestry, was approached by the Greek Olympic team manager Rob Derksen and asked to play for the host nation.

While Sinclair was often controversial, he caused an uproar in 1969 when he asked Canadian Olympic swimmer Elaine Tanner if menstruation interfered with her training.

When the International Olympic Committee questioned Greece's commitment to the games and its ability to complete all preparations prior to the opening ceremony, Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was asked to return and was named president of the Olympic Organizing Committee.

The woman from RTÉ asked him, " Realistically, should you have come to the Olympic Games?

However, it wasn't until she became a student at the Inter-American University that she was asked by the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee to represent Puerto Rico in international sports events.

In 1974 Lee asked his coach Al McGuire to allow him to play for the United States Olympic basketball team.

Media and China-based sources reported that municipal authorities in Beijing closed some house churches or asked them to stop meeting during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

For the London Olympic Games, Price was asked to create a theme song as the keystone of what director Danny Boyle called the " sonic branding " of the games.

The Munich massacre is a common reference name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September.

The West German Olympic Organizing Committee had encouraged an open and friendly atmosphere in the Olympic Village, to help erase memories of the militaristic image of wartime Germany and, specifically, of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which had been exploited by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for propaganda purposes.

Many of the 80, 000 people who filled the Olympic Stadium for West Germany's football match with Hungary carried noisemakers and waved flags, but when several spectators unfurled a banner reading “ 17 dead, already forgotten ?” security officers removed the sign and expelled those responsible from the grounds.

* September 18 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman

She was also the president or patron of numerous organisations, such as the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre, and the London Lighthouse ( an AIDS charity that has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust ).

* Julien Fountain ( Joined West Indies Cricket Team in 1998, a former Cricketer & British Olympic Baseball Player )

The OPLC announced on 11 February 2011 that West Ham had been selected as the preferred bidder for the Olympic Stadium, subject to final governmental ratification.

On September 5, 1972, the Palestinian terrorist movement Black September infiltrated the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, to kidnap 11 Israeli athletes, killing two in the Olympic Village in the initial assault on the athletes ' rooms.

It is on the line from Richmond in the West to Stratford Station on the Olympic site in the East.

* Al Oerter-Prior to Mexico City Olympics in 1968, this Olympic discus thrower lived in West Islip, and would frequently work out at the High School field.

During the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, West Valley City was the official venue for men's and women's ice hockey.

Rainfest, a celebration of the arts sponsored by the West Olympic Council for the Arts, occurs in April and usually has a combination of arts and craft related events.

In August as a 15-year-old ( and youngest entrant ) representing West Germany, she won the tennis demonstration event at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

* Olympic Games ( Men's Competition ) in Munich, West Germany

* XX Olympic Games, held in Munich, West Germany ( 28 August – September 4 )

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12 to February 28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands, and in the resort town of Whistler.

) The vote was conducted by the International Olympic Committee in Baden-Baden, West Germany, at the 84th IOC Session and 11th Olympic Congress.

Following bids from both Stuttgart, West Germany and Helsinki, Finland, the IAAF Council awarded the inaugural competition to Helsinki, to take place in 1983 and be held in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium ( where the 1952 Summer Olympics were held ).

Born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Clark is the only person to have won both the Olympic high jump and long jump.

Abu Daoud, who planned the 1972 Munich massacre, the hostage-taking of members of the Israeli team at the Munich Olympic Games which ended with the murder of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German policeman, wrote that funds for the operation were provided by Abbas, though without knowing what the money would be used for.

Furthermore, the international achievement of Cambridge's rowers far exceeded that of Oxford's: the World Champion stern pair of Germans Thorsten Engelmann – the heaviest ever boat race oarsman at – and Sebastian Schulte ; Olympic Gold medallist Kieran West MBE and GB medal winner Tom James.