The 2012 Summer Olympic Games may end in four days, but that doesn't mean the celebrations have to.
Brazil is hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016.
In 1996, Ali brought millions of fans to tears at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Czechoslovakia was a Cold War Olympic powerhouse, winning 143 medals over 40 years of summer Olympic Games.
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games' opening ceremony will take place on July 27.
The carrier was heavily criticized for its taping of London Summer Olympic events so it could broadcast them in prime time.
Nearly nine years after the Athens Summer Olympic Games, American shot putter Adam Nelson has been declared a winner at those games.
Further ahead: the 2016 summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.
Take swimming, that most telegenic and Golden of all summer Olympic sports.
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In addition, she reported on the crash of the Concorde on location in France, the 2000 presidential election and the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
His first customer was Sina.com--the popular portal site was struggling to handle the stream of visitors crashing its servers during the Sydney Summer Olympic Games.
The Swatch Group brand, Omega, is the official timekeeper for the Olympics, which meant that the company had major marketing expenses during the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games.
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Two events qualified based partly on where they are happening: The Summer Olympic Games are always a huge event, but they promise to be even more memorable with Beijing, China, as host.
As Beijing prepares to host the summer Olympic Games in less than three months, officials were quick to report that the city's dozens of Olympic venues were built to withstand earthquakes and that none had suffered damage.
The controversy unfolds at a delicate time for Spain: Madrid is among the finalist to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, and Spanish athletes and fans have been criticized and sanctioned for actions deemed racially insensitive.
On Friday, the three-time heavyweight champion, whose name became synonymous with the phrases "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and "I am the Greatest, " made another memorable appearance late Friday during a spectacular opening ceremony ushering in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
And as mayor, he will be the host of the Olympic Summer Games in 2016.
Yahoo wants to double its presence this summer during the Olympic Games in London, reports AP.
Any in the path of the summer's Olympic Torch relay will know the fickle nature of a transitory event.
The task now for London is ensuring the efficient transport network during the 2012 Games is not "just an exceptional, one-off achievement only beneficial over the Olympic summer", Ms Pidgeon said.
The case has brought increased scrutiny to the X Games, the combination of quirky, hair-raising events that were once pushed to the distant margins of televised sports but have in recent years been added to both Summer and Winter Olympic slates.
"Personally, I think that having some threshold would give some more uniformity to the test, but pragmatically we don't want to limit the sensitivity of tests, " said Prof David Cowan from King's College London, who is in charge of anti-doping at next summer's London Olympic Games.
Those looking for the Olympic spirit this summer could well avoid the crowds descending on London and get over to a small field in Shropshire.
Downes had spent the summer at a pre-Olympic training camp in Australia, where he scored two goals in a trial match against Chile.
Businesses based at Redhill aerodrome in Surrey fear they will suffer heavily as a result of security surrounding the Olympic Games this summer.
The contracts follow a major initiative last summer during the London 2012 Olympic Games to try to win contracts for UK firms around the 2016 Olympic Games and 2018 football World Cup in Russia.
Room bookings held up last summer, while others suffered an Olympic effect of the usual, largely English, clientele staying away.
He is forgoing Ironman races to focus on short course racing again in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (an Olympic distance triathlon is about one-quarter the distance of an Ironman).
G4S was heavily criticised for its handling of the Olympic Games security contract last summer.
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