Olympics

After the 2008 Games in Beijing, baseball and softball were dropped and will no longer be competed at the Summer Olympics.

Some of the other sports that have been dropped from the Olympics include golf, polo, rugby, and tug-of-war.

The location of the last four Olympic Games include Sochi, Russia, and London England. In addition, it includes Vancouver, Canada, and Beijing, China.

Greace becauuse they made the Olympics so it was only fair

August 8th.

Steve Prefontaine won the 1972 5k Olympics!

54

Squaw Valley, California, United States.

The declaration that opens the Games is made by the host country's head of state or their representative.

After the cauldron is lit, doves are released, as a symbol of peace. This was first done in the 1896 Olympics, and then in the 1920 Olympics. Since 1920, this has been an official part of the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Games. They are generally not released during the Winter Games, because it's too cold for the birds, but symbolic substitutions are sometimes used. In the 1994 Winter Games, for example, white balloons were released. The order-first lighting the cauldron, then releasing the doves-is important. In the 1988 Seoul Games, they tried it the other way around. Unfortunately, many of the doves were in the area of the cauldron just before it burst into flames, leading to their unexpected demise. Eliminating the live white doves from the Olympic ceremonies was an overreaction to the animal rights activitsts concerns and legal threats. In the original Olympics held in Greece, they released trained homing pigeons at the conclusion of the games to announce the winners to the villages, not at the beginning ceremonies when they light up the cauldron as has been changed in the modern era. This is one of those traditions where the ancient Greek way was better. Based on my review of the 1988 Olympics video foootage, about 12 doves perched on the rim of the cauldron before the torch bearers lit the cauldron. I also saw a dove flying very low and mingling with the crowd! It is not clear from the video footage, how many doves, if any were consumed by the fire. There is also no evidence that the cauldron contained water or liquid fuel to attract the birds to drink from it. It does appear that the torch bearers saw the doves before they lit the cauldron. One account indicates that two doves with charred feathers were assisted by bystanders. Therefore it is safe to conclude that most of those doves perched on the cauldron escaped without harm when they felt the heat and gas expanding after the cauldron was lit. The doves escaping from the cauldron rim can be seen on the video footage. Trained white homing pigeons do not linger for one minute after they are released. As soon as they are released they fly up high in the sky and start looking for their home. As soon as they find their bearings, usually within five minutes, they head home. If the territory is familiar, they head home in less than 1 minute. Based on my review of the 1988 video footage it is apparent to me that they did not use trained white homing pigeons. They either used white ringneck doves, untrained young homing pigeons, or white squab purchased in the last minute. Furthermore, there was no coordinator on site to watch for the birds and prevent the lighting of the cauldron with the doves on the rim of the cauldron. The Olympic Committee needs to reconsider. They must make sure that future dove releases are coordinated by an experienced white dove release professional to ensure that white ringneck doves, untrained young white homing pigeons, or young pigeons without a homing instinct are not used for the Olympic dove releases. Neither squab nor white ring neck doves have a homing instinct and are poor fliers. After they are released outdoors, white ringneck doves, untrained young white homers, and squab cannot fend for themselves and will fly into cars and windows or fall fall pray to cats, hawks, owls, or dogs. They should only use trained white homing pigeons, whch are four times as big as ringneck doves and are superb flyers and navigators, reaching speeds of 50 miles per hour. Some exceptional trained homing pigeons can find their home from 1000 miles away! We should learn from Walt Disney, who only released trained white homing pigeons, a tradition that continues in Disneyland since opening in 1955. He coordinated the release of 2,000 white homing pigeions at the 1960 Winter Onlympics in Squaw Valley, California, setting a trend in the Winter Olympics that continues to this day. For proper dove releases, white homing pigeons should be trained and established in or near the city of the dove releases site one to two years prior to the date of the dove release. Purchasing ringneck doves, white squab, or untrained white homers in the last minute is cheaper and cuts corners but is not good for the birds or the audience, who deserve much better. The white dove releases should only be handled by trained professionals to make sure that only healthy and trained white homing pigeons are released in the proper setting and at the right time. The American White Dove Release Association (AWDRA: www.awdra.com) is a great resource for the humane treatment of white ringneck doves and white homing pigeons and an advocate of white dove releases with trained white homing pigeons. AWDRA provides clear dove release standards and guidelines that ensure the protection of white homing pigeons and white ringneck doves.

Finals were on August 10 2012 after the heats on August 9 2012

You must wait until the olympics 2018 end.(I think you know in 2019)

the first winter Olympics were held on 1924

the first winter Olympics were in 1924 in chamonix,France

The Olympic games were important politically because they allowed leaders time to speak without the pressure of a political event. They also brought together a variety of cultures in a non-threatening setting.

As long as it took your nan to find her cliterus

1956 Summer Games in Melbourne where Ethiopia sent 12 athletes to compete in athletics and cycling.

The "X GAMES" are located in the United States. The winter games are located in Aspen, Colorado. The summer games are located in Los Angeles for 2009. I hope that answers your question! :D -Little Pelican!

Chris Hoy was 24 years old when he won his first Olympic medal, a silver in team sprint, at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. He was 23 years old when he won his first medal at the World Championships, a silver in team sprint, at the 1999 World Championships in Berlin.

According to reports on the Internet, the contents of an Olympic Silver Medal are the same as with an Olympic Gold Medal, 92.5 percent pure silver. The Gold Medal is covered by at least 6 grams of gold, according to the Olympic Charter. Some Olympic hosts make the medals larger or smaller according to their respective preferences...but the content must still follow the Charter.

The next Olympic games - those of winter 2014 - will be held in Sochi, Russia.

The following Olympic games - those of summer 2016 - will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The amended results of the 2002 Olympic Figure Skating Pairs competition was that both Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia and Jamie Sale and David Pelletier of Canada were awarded gold medals.

In the US, NBC.

each color means something diffrent

If you mean jumping events in the olympics a few examples are

Long jump

Standing long jump

Triple jump

There are quite a lot of gymnastic events that involve jumping but I dont know the names, if you type in

Jumping olympic events

into google your probably get a list, hope this helps

The next summer Olympics are going to be held in August, 2008, in Beijing, China.