The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Olympic Games:

Olympic Games – major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate. ^[1] The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games.

What type of thing are the Olympic Games?

The Olympic Games can be described as all of the following:

• Sports competition

History of the Olympic Games

• Ancient Olympic Games
• History of the modern Olympic Games
  • History of the Summer Olympic Games
    • 1896 Summer Olympics
    • 1900 Summer Olympics
    • 1904 Summer Olympics
    • 1908 Summer Olympics
    • 1912 Summer Olympics
    • 1916 Summer Olympics
    • 1920 Summer Olympics
    • 1924 Summer Olympics
    • 1928 Summer Olympics
    • 1932 Summer Olympics
    • 1936 Summer Olympics
    • 1940 Summer Olympics
    • 1944 Summer Olympics
    • 1948 Summer Olympics
    • 1952 Summer Olympics
    • 1956 Summer Olympics
    • 1960 Summer Olympics
    • 1964 Summer Olympics
    • 1968 Summer Olympics
    • 1972 Summer Olympics
    • 1976 Summer Olympics
    • 1980 Summer Olympics
    • 1984 Summer Olympics
    • 1988 Summer Olympics
    • 1992 Summer Olympics
    • 1996 Summer Olympics
    • 2000 Summer Olympics
    • 2004 Summer Olympics
    • 2008 Summer Olympics
    • 2012 Summer Olympics
    • 2016 Summer Olympics
    • 2020 Summer Olympics
    • 2024 Summer Olympics
    • 2028 Summer Olympics
  • History of the Winter Olympic Games
    • 1924 Winter Olympics
    • 1928 Winter Olympics
    • 1932 Winter Olympics
    • 1936 Winter Olympics
    • 1940 Winter Olympics
    • 1944 Winter Olympics
    • 1948 Winter Olympics
    • 1952 Winter Olympics
    • 1956 Winter Olympics
    • 1960 Winter Olympics
    • 1964 Winter Olympics
    • 1968 Winter Olympics
    • 1972 Winter Olympics
    • 1976 Winter Olympics
    • 1980 Winter Olympics
    • 1984 Winter Olympics
    • 1988 Winter Olympics
    • 1992 Winter Olympics
    • 1994 Winter Olympics
    • 1998 Winter Olympics
    • 2002 Winter Olympics
    • 2006 Winter Olympics
    • 2010 Winter Olympics
    • 2014 Winter Olympics
    • 2018 Winter Olympics
    • 2022 Winter Olympics
    • 2026 Winter Olympics

General Olympic Games concepts

• Institutions
  • Olympic Charter
  • International Olympic Committee
  • National Olympic Committee
  • Olympic Museum
• Olympic symbols
  • Olympic medal
  • Olympic diploma
  • Pierre de Coubertin medal
  • Olympic Games ceremony
• Games
  • Ancient Olympic Games
  • Summer Olympic Games
  • Winter Olympic Games
  • Intercalated Games
  • Paralympic Games
  • Youth Olympic Games
  • List of Olympic Games host cities
  • List of Olympic torch relays
  • List of Olympic venues
• Competitors
  • List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
  • List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games
  • All-time Olympic Games medal table
• Other articles
  • Olympic sports
  • Women at the Olympics
  • Olympic Games scandals and controversies
  • Colonialism and the Olympic Games
  • Doping at the Olympic Games

Publications about the Olympic Games

Persons influential in the Olympic Games

See also

• Outline of sports
• All-time Olympic Games medal table
• List of American universities with Olympic medals
• List of bids for the Summer Olympics
• List of bids for the Winter Olympics
• List of bids for the Youth Olympics
• Doping at the Olympic Games
• List of drugs banned by WADA
• List of Olympic Games host cities
• List of IOC country codes
• List of IOC meetings
• List of Olympic mascots
• List of members of the International Olympic Committee
• List of people who have lit the Olympic cauldron
• List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
• List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games
• List of people who have kept the Olympic flag
• List of people who have opened the Olympic Games
• List of results of the United States men's basketball team at the Olympics
• List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies
• Major achievements in Olympic team ball sports by nation
• List of Olympic teams by medals won
• List of Olympic torch relays
• List of Olympic venues

References

External links

• Official website
• Olympic, an external wiki
• New York Times Interactive of all the medals in the Modern Olympics
• All the daily program and the results of the Olympics (personal website)
• insidethegames – the latest and most up to date news and interviews from the world of Olympic, Commonwealth and Paralympic Games
• ATR – Around the Rings – the Business Surrounding the Olympics
• GamesBids.com – An Authoritative Review of Olympic Bid Business (home of the BidIndex™)
• Database Olympics
• History of Olympics to the Present Day
• Dicolympic – Dictionary about the Games from Olympia to Sochi 2014
• Reference book about all Olympic Medalists of all times
• Goddess Nike and the Olympic Games: Excellence, Glory and Strife