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- Andrew Jennings: The Great
Olympic Swindle - Investigative journalism work on Olympic corruption.
Evidence of cheating, doping and bribes related to the International
Olympic Committee by Andrew Jennings.
- Around the Rings Online
- News and photos about the business and politics of the Olympic movement
worldwide. Edited by Ed Hula, a radio correspondent for Radio 2UE in
Australia and KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City.
- AskMen.com:
The Other Side of the Olympic Games - Article exposing the scandalous
side of the games.
- Auction for Olympic Games Collectors'
at Coubertin.com - Olympic Games memorabilia and collectibles auction.
Includes Olympic medals, posters, tickets, programmes, mascots and pins.
- Austrian
Olympic History - Historical results of Austrian athletes competing
at Summer and Winter Olympics. Includes medal count tables of all countries.
An unofficial site.
- Britannica.com:
Olympic Games - History, organizations, ceremonies, Winter Games,
bibliography, images, links.
- Cansport - Year-round daily
coverage of Canadian Olympic athletes competing at home and abroad.
Commentary from Canadian journalists, athletes, and sport insiders.
Links to amateur sport sites.
- CNNSI.com
- 2002 Winter Olympics - Latest news, athlete biographies, and features
by CNN/SI columnists.
- Cultural Olympiad
- The International Foundation for the Cultural Olympiad plans many
events in the 2000-2004 years. The site presents the basic idea, examples,
themes, plan.
- Fanzam.com: Olympics
- Easy to use olympics information guide. Includes list of popular olympics
sites, and news.
- GamesBids.com - A comprehensive
review of the Olympic bid business. Contains news, information, glossary
and an active forum.
- History
of Our Olympic Games - Some information and a brief history of modern
and ancient games.
- International Centre for Olympic
Studies - Established at The University of Western Ontario in 1989.
It has as its primary mission the generation of academic scholarship
focused specifically upon the socio-cultural study of the Modern Olympic
Games and the Olympic Movement.
- International Olympic Committee
- [Official site] A variety of information involving the candidate and
host cities, events, IOC policies, international sports federations,
national Olympic committees, and Olympic museum. [Site in French and
English]
- International
Olympic Numismatic Federation - Official site featuring the collection
and study of coins, bank notes, medals and tokens. Contains event information,
collector resources and a photo gallery.
- Kodak
- Olympic History - Photo galleries of the games through history.
- No Doping in Sport - IOC
- In accordance with the fundamental principles of the Olympic Charter,
the IOC is striving to eradicate the practice of doping and ensure equitable
and healthy treatment of all athletes taking part in the Olympic Games.
[Site in French and English.]
- Olympic Aid - Every child
has the right to play. Olympic Aid raises funds for disadvantaged children
within Australia and refugee children around the world. List of athletes,
auction, donation, and photos.
- Olympic Almanac
- Information on all things Olympic, including logos, mascots, venues,and
bid candidates.
- Olympic Games
- Britannica.com - Narrative history of the games, links to other
Britannica articles and to related web sites.
- Olympic Games Medallists
- Complete list of medallists in all sports at both Summer and Winter
Olympic Games.
- Olympic
History from Buffalo and Western New York - Highlights of olympic
history with stories about Olympic medal winners and their accomplishments.
- Olympic Museum - A virtual
visit of the permanent exhibits, a virtual gallery with Nagano ceremonies,
a philatelic and numismatic exhibition, concerts and conferences, a
research centre.
- Olympic Studies Centre
- Includes a searchable Olympic Studies Directory of institutions and
researchers, a list of Olympic web links, and a collection of Sydney
2000 links.
- Olympic Studies International
Directory - Directory compiling information on the institutions
and researchers carrying out research, activities or with a documentary
collection on the Olympic Games.
- Olympic Television Archive Bureau
- OTAB is a sporting film and television library, offering films and
videos that chronicles the Olympic Games history. The new acquisitions,
the archive, olympic programming, information about services, and FAQs.
- Olympic Truce - Describes
the history of the concept of world peace through sports, description
of the foundation and news items.
- Olympics Through Time
- Historical profile from prehistory through revival. Contains glossary,
links and a comprehensive bibliography.
- Salt Lake City
2002 Winter Olympic Games - Information, event schedule, venues,
maps, ticket information, and a city guide.
- Salt Lake
Olympics 2002 Venues - Detailed information on venues and schedules
for events.
- Science and the
Olympics - Science and technology played a small role in the original
Olympics, which prompted a brief truce in any wars the Greeks happened
to be fighting. These days, science and technology play a dominant role
in the quadrennial Games.
- US Anti-Doping Agency -
USADA, the independent agency, is responsible for managing the testing
for U.S. Olympic, Pan Am, and Paralympic athletes, and for preserving
the integrity of sport through research initiatives and educational
programs.
- World of Sport: Olympic
Medals - Overview of all medal winners in modern Olympics and medal
counts on sports and countries.
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