In 1908 the London Olympics began, starting in April and lasting six months. The longest games ever ... The first ever winter sports. Dan Snow’s History of the Winter Olympics, BBC 2014
The winter Olympics would always be a stage for great power rivalries to play out. ibid.
Jean-Claude Killy – winner of three gold medals in the 1968 Olympic Games. ibid.
Lake Placid Winter Olympics, Ice Hockey: USA 4 v Soviet Union 3 – ‘the Miracle on Ice’. ibid.
It’s awfully fun to watch ... and always spectacular. ibid.
Atlanta 1996: a cauldron of heat and expectation. The biggest draw of all was Michael Johnson. The Olympic Series: The Games Through a Lens I
1992: In the Velodrome 21-year-old Chris Boardman stunned the cycling world by winning gold in the four-kilometre pursuit. ibid.
For the first time in Olympic history the 4,000 metre pursuit final was ended by a capture. ibid.
The full-on agony of the cross-country skier ... Lillehammer: Norway v Italy 4x10 km. ibid.
Bob Beamon’s long jump in Mexico City in 1968 is quite possibly the greatest Olympic record of them all. It shattered the previous record by nearly two feet. The Olympic Series: The Games Through a Lens II
The 1968 Games captured the exuberance of the ’60s. ibid.
Atlanta 1996 65 kg men: Udo Quellmalz v Yukimasa Nakamura. ibid.
Synonymous with the Olympics no event is more enduring that athletics’ 100 meters. The Olympic Series: The Olympic Spirit
One of the most celebrated examples of this occurred at the Mexico City games of 1968 when America’s Jim Hines became the first man to break the ten second barrier with a run of 9.95. The record stood for fifteen years. ibid.
At 2012 Bolt will be 25 years old. ibid.
Vitaly Scherbo ... 1992 Barcelona Olympics where he won six gold medals – the biggest haul of any gymnast at any single games. ibid.
Television would make gymnasts global superstars. ibid.
Korbut won four Olympic gold medals. ibid.
In Montreal in 1976 Nadia Comaneci provided spell-binding perfection in the same discipline. ibid.
The 200m sprint is one of the purest of Olympic sports. A lung-busting explosion of effort lasting less than 20 seconds. The Olympic Series: Olympic Peaks
For the vast majority, the door to Olympic posterity is closed at birth. And much of it comes down to the genes we were born with. ibid.
The strain that shows on every marathon runner’s face in the latter stages of the race is testament to the fact that after nearly two hours of supreme physical effort the body literally begins to break down. ibid.
The 1968 Mexico Olympics was where Fosbury finally unveiled this evolution ... The Fosbury Flop. ibid.
Sometimes, small adaptations to technique can pay big dividends. ibid.
The 1988 Seoul Olympics was Bubka’s only appearance in the Olympic pole vault finals. ibid.
Mexico 1968: at 3.46 p.m. on October 18th competitor 254 Bob Beamon of the USA was called forward to take his first try in the long jump ... An astonishing 8.9 metres. ibid.
Peak performances have improved in leaps and bounds through the appliance of sports science. But science can only take you so far. Special things happen at the Olympics because the Olympics are special. ibid.
£400,000 spent on something that my five-year-old son could have done for about a fraction of the price. But there is way more to this than meets the eye. Seb Coe said that despite the objections to this logo we will stay with it because it represents a goal that we believe in: z i o n. This is the British Israelis – those who believe that the UK is the lost tribe of Ephraim and that the new Jerusalem, the New World Order, will be established. And my conjecture is ... there will be an event at the London Olympics. They’re starting with a blank sheet of paper; they’ve got the opportunity to build in whatever pyrotechnics or whatever it is that they need to create a massive, massive event ... The bottom line is, they fooled us once. Ian R Crane, lecture Glastonbury July 2007, ‘Fool Me Once’
Olympic Games London 2012 FLOODLIGHTS are illuminati pyramids. This is the ultimate form of illuminati symbolism since the symbols ILLUMINATE the stadium as illuminated pyramids.
They are not just illuminated pyramids. They are illuminated pyramid capstones. Helpfreetheearth online news article
The fastest man who has ever lived ... Triple world record holder. Can Anyone Beat Bolt? BBC 2012
Usain Bolt is a phenomenon. He runs faster than scientists thought possible. And made winning the world’s greatest race easy. ibid.
He’s a wonder of the world. At six foot five he can reach speeds of nearly thirty miles an hour. ibid.
Winning gold in the Olympic games is every athlete’s greatest dream. Usain Bolt has already achieved that dream three times. This year at the 2012 Olympics he has the chance to go one step further – Bolt could be the first sprinter in history to win gold in the 100, 200 and 100-metre relay in two consecutive games. Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Alive, BBC 2012
On 11th April 2004 Bolt shattered the 200m junior world record: 19.93. ibid.
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China, August 16th Bolt smashed the world record. ibid.
2008 Beijing 200m: 19.30 Bolt breaks another world record. ibid.
2009 World Championships Berlin Germany August 16th 9.58. ibid.
200m: He breaks the world record again: 19.19. ibid.
I became the lightning bolt of the world.mmUsain Bolt
I’m coming as the president of a friend, and I’m coming as a sportsman. George W Bush, on trip to Olympics China 2008
Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the ’72 Olympics. Bill Toomey
It was under Hitler’s regime that the Olympic legacy was changed for ever … creating a blueprint for all subsequent Games that followed. The Nazi Olympics, More4 2016
‘Student demonstration, May 68, quickly repressed the Mexican way. Two hundred dead, and the game opened in a pacified capital.’ Grin Without a Cat aka The Base of the Air is Red, 1977, commentator
Olympic Stadium, Seoul, South Korea, 24th September 1988: ‘What a race; this is the race of this century.’ 9.79, Da Silver in lane one, ESPN 2012
The world record is gone again. ibid. David Coleman
He [Johnson] just didn’t have the core talent. ibid. Lewis
It was a dilemma that every runner in the Seoul race would have to confront at some point in their career. ibid. tester
Some of our results were lost. Some number of cases never saw the light of day. ibid.
Not only had results gone missing, but there was now a new substance on the scene that was not detectable at all to the testers. ibid. commentary
1984: The Growth Hormone Games. ibid.
The main supplier in North America was Robert Kerr, a doctor based in Los Angeles. ibid.
Avoiding a positive required nothing more than looking at a calendar. ibid.
Lewis had tested positive at the US Olympic trials for three illegal stimulants. ibid.
Unbelievable! 7.79! ibid. race commentary
No-one can take it away from me. ibid. Ben’s after-race interview
I said, Well they finally got me. ibid. Ben
The biggest drugs story in Olympics history. ibid. news
A morning like any other in Munich, a city where tradition and modernity exist side by side. One Day in September, 1999
I was given a gun; for the first time in my life I felt inspired. ibid. Palestinian revolutionary
For Andre and the rest of the Israeli team the Olympics held particular significance for they were held in Munich, Germany. ibid.
Security was kept deliberately lax. ibid.
I do not believe it! The Russians have got the gold.’ ibid. UK basketball commentary
Now they headed straight for the Israeli men’s quarters. ibid.
‘The one thing the Germans didn’t want them to be – the Olympics of Terror.’ ibid. ABC news