General Resources

Olympic Games II

ESL Quiz - Olympics - Multiple choice questions.

CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Contains: News stories; "capsules" on individual U.S. athletes; Precious medals, a video (available in RealAudio or Window Media formats) explaining how Olympic medals are made?; Athlete's diaries...

CBC Olympics - This Web site contains news article on Olympic Games events, articles on the history and the essentials of each of the Olympic Games disciplines as well as a glossary for each. Also available is a history of the Summer Games from 1896 to 2004.

Dicolympic - Olympic Games dictionary with more than 2000 entries.

Learn Foreign Languages with Fuwa -  This section on the official Web site of the Beijing 2008 Olympics provides the text and audio file for a simple sentence every day in English, Putonghua and French.

Olympic and Paralympic Summer Sport Glossary - Trilingual glossary expressions related to each sport event in the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (French-English-Chinese).

Olympic and Paralympic Winter Sports Official Lexicon - Trilingual lexicon of terms related to each sport event in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games (French-English-Italian).

Triumph and Tragedy - A concise illustrated history of the modern Olympic Games.

Olympic Clip Art and Resources - Olympic clip art titles and headers, plus other clip art and Olympic Winter Games information and resource sites.

Canadian Olympic Committee - Information on the Olympics and athletes.

Canadian Olympians - A searchable images database of Canadian athletes at the Olympics, from the mid-1900s through 2000.

• Web sites on Olympians, medal winners, statistics:
• Great Olympians: from 1896 up to and including 2000.
• Olympic Games Medallists - Athletics (Men)
• Olympic Games Medallists - Athletics (Women)
• Olympic Games 1896 - 2000

Olympic Statistics - Medal Count - "the ranking by country for each Olympic event  and for each sport and Olympic.”