Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

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At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

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The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

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There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

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At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

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My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

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In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

quote by Peggy Fleming
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

quote by Will Rogers
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

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I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

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The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.

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The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

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Ringing The Bell: The Olypics

You still have fire.
I also have my fire.

we can take both, one's
own, or one unique fire and go
to race in the Olympics;

or we can leave some fire for the next winter
Olympics;

so we can both
sprint run,
wrestle,
do all the gym acrobats,
sand volleyball,
free four hundreds swimming, and
ski under the heavy blue sky.

So, do you have
enough

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poem by Atef Ayadi
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If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

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Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

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The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

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He shot at the sun
Hot liquid fell on his head
An Olympic torch

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Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

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