Olympics Background & History
Sites
The Olympic Games- Overview and history of the modern and ancient Olympics. From the World Book Encyclopedia
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - Beijing 2008
- The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 8-24, 2008. The XXIX Olympiad.
- Olympic Games @ Encyclopædia Britannica
- Full article covers the history of the ancient and modern games.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - BBC Olympics 2004
- Melbourne 1956 Olympics
- From Victorian Public Records Office
- New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Visit the pages of the NZ Olympic Committee and learn about Kiwi athletes and past medal winners.
- New Zealand Olympic History
- Kiwis have been competing in the Olympics for over 100 years! Learn about it here.
- Olympic Flag Colouring
- Print and colour your own set of Olympic Rings.
- Olympic Games Locations
- A list from Wikipedia of all the places the Modern Olympic Games have been held.
- Olympic Information Center
- From the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. Includes Olympic Primer.
- Olympic medal winner database
- Discover the results of all the medallists since 1896.
- Olympic Sports
- Which sports are in the Olympics and how did they get there?
- Olympic Studies Centre (OSC)
- The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC), situated in the Olympic Museum, was created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in order to preserve and disseminate the collective memory of the Olympic Movement and to coordinate and promote research, teaching and publications about Olympism.
- The Olympics
- New Zealand's Olympians - almost 1000 of them - have produced plenty of memorable moments over the years, but the Games have also been marred by boycotts, controversy and tragedy. From nzhistory.net
- Printable Olympic Torch
- Print and colour your own Olympic torch
- Winter Olympic History
- From CBC.CA
- Winter Olympics Through The Years
- Wintergamesarchive.com
- Search Newspaper Articles about Winter Games in more than 50,000 Historical Newspaper Pages. From NewspaperARCHIVE.com
