Articles in the ‘Summer Olympic Sports’ Category

The government of Russia, as well as the Russian people themselves, made no secret about their disappointment in the Russian Olympic team at the 2010 Vancouver games. The country was hoping that their athletes could turn in an impressive performance to help shift the world’s focus from Vancouver to Sochi, [...]

Remember when the Rorschach test-like logo for the 2012 London Olympics was released, and everyone said that it looked either vaguely dirty or like a distorted swastika? That minor controversy was nothing compared to the firestorm that has attended the release of the 2012 Olympic mascots. Named Wenlock and Mandeville, the [...]

The 2012 Olympics are set to take place in London for the first time since 1948, and the preparations are heating up. The city is constructing six new venues for the games, plus an Olympic Village that will hold 17,000 athletes. The logo and mascots have long been out of the [...]

The Summer Olympics are a big, expensive event requiring years of preparation on the part of the host country—and it just gets bigger and bigger with time. The 2008 Beijing Olympics were the most expensive of all time, and it’s widely believed that the Chinese government lost [...]