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Monday, December 7, 2015

Olympic Games

Olympic Games


Olympic Games are a major international event and one of the greatest sport events featuring summer and winter sports in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered to be the world’s foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Games are currently held biennially, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, meaning they each occur every four years. Over 13,000 athletes compete at the Summer and Winter Olympics in 33 different sports and nearly 400 events. The first, second, and third place finishers in each event receive Olympic medals: gold, silver, and bronze, respectively. The Olympic Games over the past 50 years the most costly Games have been London 2012 (USD14.8 billion), Barcelona 1992 (USD11.4 billion), and Montreal 1976 (USD6 billion). Through the first weekend, NBC averaged a 19.2 rating and 35.8 million viewers. That’s the most viewers since the Olympics started being shown on television in 1960, when the Games were played in Rome. During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 30.6 million people witnessed the events of the first two days.

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