For example, the popular bobsleigh team from the island of Jamaica did not qualify for the Olympics four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

At the time, they were getting ready for the Olympics in Nagano so we were able to also tie in some information about the Olympics as well.

当时，他们正在,为长野奥运会做准备,因此，我们也讨论了,有关奥运会的话题。

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and so our organisation is trying to get as many medals as possible for the Olympics, for UK athletes.

所以我们的组织努力地为奥运、为英国运动员争取尽可能多的金牌。

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About five thousand men and women from more than eighty countries will compete for seventeen days at the Vancouver Olympics.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

She's 16. She's auditioned for a national choir that's going to perform during the Olympics.

她16岁了。她来参加国家合唱团的试音，这个合唱团将会在奥运会期间表演。

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American swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, breaking the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Eunice Shriver was best known for creating the Special Olympics, an athletic event for people with mental disabilities.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Charlie White and Meryl Davis are competing for the United States at the Olympics for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

On the twelfth day of the Olympics the United States broke its medal record for competition outside America.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

And it was shown during the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February twelfth.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

In two thousand seven he won the popular television competition show Dancing with the Stars. The Vancouver Winter Olympics have been very good for Bode Miller.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

She started the Special Olympics for athletes with mental disabilities.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Hitler hoped to use the 1936 Olympics as a showcase for Nazism and his assertion of a superior white Aryan race.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

(Speech) Earlier this month, Boit arrived in Washington State to try to qualify for his fourth and,he says,final Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

It's located near the Olympics venue for long track speed skating in Richmond, about a 30-minute drive south from downtown Vancouver.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The result ended a medal drought for Morrison, who had failed to medal in his previous events at these Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

Other dollars needed to support Team USA as it prepares for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

With those results,he tied and then passed long track speed skater Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympics medals won by an American.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Zong says the farm was constructed to help clean up Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

We're fortunate enough to play in the NHL,but the Olympics are a really big thing for us and we're really going there to win the gold.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Terribly dynamic and largely a very young group of players who are going to be competing in the Olympics most of them for the first time,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

He says playing in the Olympics for his country is an honor.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

They became eligible for the Winter Games in 1992, but the NHL has allowed its athletes to go to the Olympics only three previous times: in 1998,2002,and 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Manager Mike Jackson says the Olympics are really good for business.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Smith-Valade told VOA one of the key communications objectives for the Vancouver Olympics was to present Canada's linguistic duality of English and French, which are also the two languages of the IOC.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

For Chad Hedrick, Vancouver was his last Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

The medals for the Olympics and Paralympics are on display on the second floor of the building, where Project Manager Dan Mallett tells tour groups about how the medals were designed and made.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

As for sightseeing, there's little time for that during their studies at the Olympics, but the students are welcome to stay for a bit on their own afterwards - if,of course, they are not worn out.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Proctor and Gamble signed on as a U.S.Olympic Team sponsor last September, but it was only last month that the U.S.-based company announced it would sponsor a P&G Family Home at the Vancouver Olympics for TEAM USA.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

And while he said his booth on B.C.Street was not necessarily an advertisement for tourism, he hopes - like others displaying their regions on B.C.Street at these Olympics it will inspire visitors from around the world to one day visit his community.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23