Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.
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In the 1936 Olympics, Adolf Hitler became the first to exploit sports as an arm of nationalism.
The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.
jean drapeauWinning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.
pierre de coubertinThe Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.
jean drapeauWhen London was chosen to host the 2012 Olympics, Gibson said that he regretted that Paris had not been chosen because it would have subjected that city to the threat of terrorism.
john gibsonBelistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals ... at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
pausaniasYour recent meetings with Chinese dissidents at the White House are to be commended. However, your participation at the opening ceremony of the Olympics will send a signal to the Chinese people and the international community that could be misperceived as your approval, and that of the American people, for the draconian policies of the Chinese government. Therefore, it is essential that you unambiguously speak out for human rights and meet with the families of jailed prisoners of conscience while you are in Beijing. (In a letter to President Bush prior to his 2008 trip to Beijing's Summer Olympic Games
nancy pelosiWinning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.
pierre de coubertinIn the 1936 Olympics, Adolf Hitler became the first to exploit sports as an arm of nationalism .
Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals ... at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
The Olympics have become a proving ground for scientists, chemists and unethical doctors.
The Olympics have become a proving ground for scientists, chemists and unethical doctors.