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The Olympics Portal

The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games. Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century. The Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year starting in 1896, except in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to the First and Second World Wars. A special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were originally held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but from 1994 on the Winter Games and the Summer Games have been held two years apart.

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Olympics featured content

Featured content represents the best of what Wikipedia has to offer. The following Olympics-related articles and lists have been designated as Featured () by the community, as a result of many collaborative efforts of users and readers just like you.

Featured articles:

• 1896 Summer Olympics
• 2012 Summer Olympics bids
• Australia at the Winter Olympics
• Ian Thorpe
• Jim Thorpe

Featured lists:

• Australian Olympic medalists in swimming

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Wikiprojects

WikiProject Olympics

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Culture	Biographies: sports
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Categories

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How you can help

On Wikipedia, anyone can edit. So if you're interested in the Olympics and its related subjects and articles, feel free to edit current content or start a new article. After all, the Wikipedia community encourages all readers and users to be bold in updating pages. So if you're unsure on where to start, you may want to start with any of these open tasks, courtesy of the Olympics WikiProject:

• Label project-untagged pages by adding the {{OlympicsWikiProject}} template banner to their talk page. Tagged pages are automatically listed under a namespace-specific category (Cat:WikiProject Olympics articles and Cat:WikiProject Olympics templates).
• Help assessing tagged pages by defining the quality parameters, on the template banner, such as the class (completeness status) and interest to the project.
• Find an article in any one of these categories and improve it:
  • Cat:Olympics, Cat:Summer Olympic Games, Cat:Winter Olympic Games
  • Cat:Olympic sports
  • Cat:Nations at the Olympics
  • Cat:Olympic competitors, Cat:Olympic medalists
• Find Olympic stub articles and expand them: Olympic stubs, Winter Olympic stubs, Olympic medalist stubs, Winter Olympic medalist stubs.
• Join the Olympics WikiProject!
• add more tasks...

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