The Olympics are an interesting set of international athletic competitions which used to occur once every four years, with both the winter events and the summer events being held in the same year. More recently, the powers that be have rearranged this traditional schedule with a modern schedule which has the winter Olympics in the winter of 2002 and the summer Olympics in the summer of 2004.
Origin of the Olympic games
The ancient Greeks started their "Olympic" athletic contests near the base of Mt. Olympus in Greece more than two thousand years ago.
Modern Olympics:
Our modern Olympics have seen ultra-nationalism, racism, terrorism and cheating by illicit performance-enhancing steroid drug use besides some good competitions.
Two measures of American national Olympic medal productivity when measured on a level playing field on a per million population basis:
The USA ranked only 21th in the 2006 Winter Olympics medals production on a per million population basis. Winter Olympics 2006
The USA ranked only 16th in the 2002 Winter Olympics medals production on a per million population basis: Winter Olympics
A listing of the national rankings of medals won in the 2004 Summer Olympics per million population: USA ranked in fortieth place (40th) out of 73 nations: Olympic national rankings
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