Her vision expanded over the years, and in July 1968 the first International Special Olympics Games were held in Chicago.
Salt Lake's ratings are an anomaly, since the audiences for Olympics games have been shrinking for years thanks to increased competition from a growing array of competing channels.
The product, which has yet to be approved in the U.S., is already available and being used in India, Pakistan, and China, where the product was deployed during the Olympics games in Beijing.
Just like Eduardo Paes wants to capitalize with the Olympics games to leave a legacy and revolutionize Rio de Janeiro, I believe the Pacified Rio Cup has the potential to leave long lasting improvements in the communities.
During the Olympics Games (27 July to 12 August), sports fans in these 64 territories across Asia and Africa will be able to enjoy live coverage of the events as well as highlight clips on this digital platform - free-of-charge.
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Companies from Coca-Cola to Nike and Sprint to State Farm have hosted events ranging from Special Olympics basketball games to celebrity meet-and-greets for fans throughout the week.
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The Olympics and Paralympic Games get underway on July 27 and August 29 respectively.
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Gareth Cowin, 25, died in PyeongChang whilst representing the island at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
The Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea have been renamed in honour of Manx Olympian Gareth Cowin.
And it appears to me that even with all the money pouring into the Olympics, the games have managed to keep the values and ideals of the movement from being overwhelmed by commercialism.
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That's the benchmark figure from which a group of economists are starting, when they try to figure out the value of the happiness that can be generated by the Olympics and Paralympic Games this summer.
Lord Coe led the successful bid to host the Olympics and oversaw the Games as chairman of organisers Locog.
Like other Olympics kitsch, the games may have a short shelf life.
The men's 50km event has been staged in either freestyle or classical at all 20 editions of the Winter Olympics since the inaugural Games of 1924, and this was the first time the Scandinavians failed to make the podium.
Earlier, Judy Murray, the tennis coach and mother of US Open grand slam winner Andy Murray, called for facilities to be accessible and affordable saying there was an "enormous opportunity" on the back of the Olympics and the Commonwealth games coming up to "capture the imagination of the Scottish public".
Marion Jones became the first woman to ever win five medals at a single Olympics at the 2000 Sydney Games.
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Academic Prawat Nagvajara was a cross-country skier for Thailand at both the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2006 Turin Games.
It's the second time a game manufacturer has created mobile games for the Olympics--a venture that requires a pricey license from the International Olympic Committee.
As it turned out, it was another contest in Athens (in 1906, but without the status of a fully fledged Olympics) that reconfirmed the games as a Greek-inspired, but peripatetic, sports event.
The 8-Bit computer, which launched in 1982 (the same year TRON hit theaters), may have been great for BASIC programming, but I used it mostly for playing games like Summer Olympics, Ghostbusters, Castle Wolfenstein, and Pitstop II.
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She was the team's only medallist at the 2006 Winter Olympics but at the Vancouver Games the British are being tipped for possibly their best medal haul, if they can beat the four medals won in 1924.
The men scored only one goal in three games in the 2008 Olympics, when they had home-field advantage.
Only cable subscribers and online viewers could experience one of the most exciting games of the entire Olympics.
But I'd be lying if I said the X-Games and the Winter Olympics weren't an ambition of mine.
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The search has begun for 500 volunteers to help the Special Olympics GB's ninth national games run smoothly.
In men's BMX cycling, Latvia's Maris Strombergs won the gold, defending his Olympics title won at the Beijing Games.
More athletes were disqualified from the 2004 Olympics in Athens than from any games since drug-testing was introduced in 1968.
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In 1948, London hosted the Summer Olympics, or the "Austerity Games, " as they were called for their postwar frugality and prudence.
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Fifa had initially ruled that the two crucial Group C games for the Athens Olympics be played at the same time.
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With the new deal done, the U.S. will consider whether to bid for the 2022 Winter Games or 2024 Summer Olympics.
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