Talk:Olympic Games

Looking forIndividual teams data starting from 1960

For every years data that exists on wikipedia's olympic games page, there is a total count of sports men and women. I was interested in gathering individual data of each and every country. Where can I find this data? where does wikipedia get this data ?

Cotswold Olimpicks (again!)

I'm sorry, but I still maintain that the Cotswold Olimpicks should be listed in the precursors to the modern Games. With the 2012 Games in London next year, and the British Olympic bid directly referncing the Games as the first stirrings of the Modern Games, I feel it is somewhat harsh to diminish probably one of the first attempts in modern times to revive the Olympic ideal. The fact that so many notable figures referenced the Greek Olympic games in their dedications to Robert Dover in the 1636 publication of Annalia Dubrensia, shows that the intention was definitely to revive something which had hitherto been dormant.

To quote one such, Michael Drayton: "Douer, to doe thee Right, who will not striue,

   That dost in these dull yron Times reuiue
   The golden Ages glories; which poore Wee
   Had not so much as dream't on but for Thee?
   As those braue Grecians in their happy dayes,
   On Mount Olympus to their Hercules
   Ordain'd their games Olimpick, and so nam'd
   Of that great Mountaine; for those pastimes fam'd:
   Where then their able Youth, Leapt, Wrestled, Ran,
   Threw the arm'd Dart; and honour'd was the Man
   That was the Victor; In the Circute there
   The nimble Rider, and skill'd Chariotere
   Stroue for the Garland; In those noble Times
   There to their Harpes the Poets sang their Rimes;
   That whilst Greece flourisht, and was onely then
   Nurse of all Arts, and of all famous men:
   Numbring their yeers, still their accounts they made,
   Either from this or that Olimpiade.
   So Douer, from these Games, by thee begun,
   Wee'l reckon Ours, as time away doth run.
   Wee'l haue thy Statue in some Rocke cut out,
   With braue Inscriptions garnished about;
   And vnder written, Loe, this was the man,
   DOVER, that first these noble Sports began.
   Ladds of the Hills, and Lasses of the Vale,
   In many a song, and many a merry Tale
   Shall mention Thee; and hauing leaue to play,
   Vnto thy name shall make a Holy day.
   The Cosswold Shepheards as their flockes they keepe,
   To put off lazie drowsinesse and sleepe,
   Shall sit to tell, and heare thy Story tould,
   That night shall come ere they their flocks can fould." 

In fact the Olympic heritage of the Dovers Games is repeated in this BBC programme by Professor Mark Horton, who also mentions the heritage of the Cotswold Olimpicks referenced by the BOA.

Giuliettista (talk) 12:02, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Change in nationality

A new editor User:Rachelbarth added a large section about citizenship. I think it is a reasonable subject for this article, but this section is too large and will give an undue weight to the subject on the main article. I think it should be summarized for the main article and the rest of the subject broken off to a new full article. The section seems to center around the United States and contemporary athletes. I think we will find this trend has existed further back in time than their research shows and it occurs in other countries as well. In my own edits I have mentioned other athletes making changes in domicile for competitive reasons, most of them away from the United States team (because it is so hard to make the United States team). Other athletes have emigrated toward other countries because their home team is so hard to make in their events. We have articles that show such changes. Bahrain and Qatar have fielded teams that have virtually no native athletes. Trackinfo (talk) 16:49, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Inclusion of gamesbids.com as an external link

Why does this website keep on being removed from the external links? Some Olympic related articles such as Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics use the website for information. Moreover the website is very similar to the AroundTheRings.com and Insidethegames.biz which are listed as external links on this website. Intoronto1125TalkContributions 03:07, 27 February 2012 (UTC)