Ten events were contested at the Utah Olympic Oval.

The Olympic Oval interior

The Olympic Oval exterior and basketball courts

The Olympic Oval ice arena was site of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, the fastest ice in the world.

Some of its venues are the Jack Simpson Gymnasium ( basketball, volleyball ), McMahon Stadium ( football, soccer ), Olympic Oval ( speed skating ), Hawkings Field ( field hockey ), University of Calgary Aquatic Centre ( swimming, often shortened to Aquatic Centre ) and a 200m Running Track ( cross-country and track & field practice ).

The men's hockey team plays at Father David Bauer Olympic Arena, while the women's hockey team's schedule is split between the Olympic Oval and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena.

Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, the Olympic Ski Jumps, the Cascade Cross Country Ski Center, and the Lake Placid High School Speed Skating Oval.

Richmond is the location of Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island, and the Richmond Olympic Oval was the site for speed-skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Some of its venues are the Jack Simpson Gymnasium ( basketball m / w, volleyball m / w ), McMahon Stadium ( football, soccer m / w ), Olympic Oval ( speed skating ), Hawkings Field ( field hockey ), University of Calgary Aquatic Centre ( swimming, often shortened to Aquatic Centre ) and a 200m Running Track ( cross-country and track & field practice ).

The men's hockey team plays at Father David Bauer Olympic Arena, while the women's hockey team's schedule is split between the Olympic Oval and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena.

* Calgary Olympic Oval, Canadian ice rink

The Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a covered speed skating oval built for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

In 2012, the Olympic Oval will kick off its 25th year of public service with a number of exciting activities and celebrations.

The Olympic Oval was designed as the first covered speed skating oval in North America, and as the first to be used at Winter Olympics.

Construction of The Oval began in 1985, nearly four years after Calgary had been designated host of the XV Olympic Winter Games.

Olympic Oval

It was during the speed skating events of the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 that The Oval became known as " the fastest ice on Earth ", as world records times were set in seven distance events ( Men's 500 m, Men's 1500 m, Men's 10000 m, Women's 500 m, Women's 1000 m, Women's 3000 m and Women's 5000 m ), and new Olympic records were set in the other three events ( Men's 1500 m, Men's 5000 m and Women's 1500 m ).

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Since 1992, badminton has been an Olympic sport with five events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, in which each pair consists of a man and a woman.

Amateur boxing is an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and is a common fixture in most of the major international games-it also has its own World Championships.

He has been prime-time host of a record 9 Olympic games.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

Curling has been an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Dartmouth has also produced a number of Olympic competitors.

The men's competition has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the first Olympiad in 1896.

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

It has a membership of around 120 and has a large selection of dinghies and a small fleet of keelboats, including Solings, which are former Olympic boats.

Since 2000, individual trampoline has been included in the Olympic Games.

FIG has a policy of only using four of the five pieces of apparatus and changes them for different Olympic cycles.

The site has also played a key role in communications events such as the Muhammad Ali fights, the Olympic Games, the 1969 moon landings and 1985's Live Aid concert.

Granville has an Olympic size pool and a football ( soccer ) facility.

It has been contested since the Olympic Games of ancient Greece.

Men's field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 ( except 1912 and 1924 ), while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.

All 12 Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women's Championships medals have gone to one of these seven countries, and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either Canada or the United States.

* 1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.

This event has been an Olympic medal event since the first modern Olympics in 1896 ( a medal event for women since 1948 ) and has a history in the Ancient Olympic Games.

* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

It became an official Summer Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for individual players.

Two early figures stand out: Hippias of Elis, who produced the lists of winners in the Olympic Games that provided the basic chronological framework as long as the pagan classical tradition lasted, and Hellanicus of Lesbos, who compiled more than two dozen histories from civic records, all of them now lost.

In 2002, Indianapolis hosted the FIBA World Championship ( now known as the FIBA Basketball World Cup ), an event that takes place on even years opposite the Olympic Games.

Lugh instituted an event similar to the Olympic games called the Assembly of Talti which finished on Lughnasadh ( 1 August ) in memory of his foster-mother, Tailtiu, at the town that bears her name ( now Teltown, County Meath ).

Despite now standing as a single unbroken stand, the individual sections retain the names of Ponsford, Olympic and Members Stands.

The Olympic Stand ( now demolished ) is visible at the bottom left of the photo

The MCG in the early 2000s, showing ( left to right ) the Ponsford Stand, the Members Stand, and the Olympic Stand, all now demolished and replaced by newer structures

Polo is now an active sport in 77 countries, and although its tenure as an Olympic sport was limited to 1900 – 1939, in 1998 the International Olympic Committee recognised it as a sport with a bona fide international governing body, the Federation of International Polo.

At the 2000 Olympic Games, however, the duet competition was restored and is now featured alongside the team competition.

Sport taekwondo is in turn subdivided into two main styles ; one is practiced by WTF Taekwondo practitioners, and derives from Kukkiwon, the source of the sparring system sihap gyeorugi which is now an event at the summer Olympic Games and which is governed by the World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ).

Furthermore, Plutarch reports that at the next Olympic Games: " Themistocles entered the stadium, the audience neglected the contestants all day long to gaze on him, and pointed him out with admiring applause to visiting strangers, so that he too was delighted, and confessed to his friends that he was now reaping in full measure the harvest of his toils in behalf of Hellas.

All events were held at the Delta Center ( now EnergySolutions Arena ), although for purposes of the International Olympic Committee's No Commercialisation Policy on venues, it was known as the " Salt Lake Ice Center ".

Squash is now vying for a spot the 2020 Olympic Games.

Olympic venues are now used for local, national, and international sporting events and Olympic athlete training.

Macedon and the regions adjoining it having now been securely consolidated, Philip celebrated his Olympic Games at Dium.

* Cameron Wurf ( born 1983 ) ex Australian Olympic rower and now professional cyclist for Cannondale Liquigas

Malta, Panama, and Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) competed at the Olympic Games for the first time.

Well, there's been pretty clear evidence now that there was a unit that was called the Brigada Olympica, or the Olympic Brigade, that was made up of special forces of the presidential guard, who opened fire from the buildings that surrounded the square, and that that was the thing that provoked the massacre.

There were two pools at the country club ( one for family and one for adults only ) including an Olympic size pool, replaced now by a volleyball court.

* the White Swan Hotel, an 18th Century Coaching Inn that now houses the First Class Lounge and other fittings from the Titanics near identical sister ship RMS Olympic.

Olympic Junior College ( now Olympic College ), a two-year institution, opened its doors to 575 students in the Fall of 1946.