Locations
This is the school that Jesse Owens attended for college.
What is The Ohio State University?
Sport was pursued in this location and time period with the ideology of "Sound Mind, Sound Body".
What is Ancient Greece?
This organizing committee decided that good old fashioned "southern hospitality" would be the best way to secure the Games.
What is Atlanta (GA)?
This has been the overall trend of sustainability impacts on the Games since Agenda 21 was enacted.
What is decrease/less successful/diminishing?
This was the name of the group that took the Israeli hostages during the 1972 Games.
Who are Black September?
This was the host city the first time the Olympics were held in a Spanish-speaking country.
What is Mexico City?
Sport was pursued in this location and time period under the ideology of "Survival of the Fittest"?
What is Ancient Sparta?
When all was said and done, this host city bankrupted itself in order to put on the Summer Games.
What is Montreal (QC, Canada)?
This is the name of the policy that resulted in South Africa not being allowed to participate in many of the Olympic Games.
What is apartheid?
This is the group that sets the rules and regulates Olympic athlete eligibility.
What is the Amateur Athletic Union?
This location hosted the Winter Games in 1932 and in 1980.
What is Lake Placid, NY?
This athlete was nicknamed the "Mayor of the Olympic Village during the 1960 Games.
Who is Cassius Clay?
This organizing committee decided that a little thieving and sabotage would be the best way to secure the Games.
What is Denver (CO)?
This Soviet-controlled country had a state-sponsored doping program that resulted in increased medal count for its athletes.
What is East Germany?
This was the group that asked Jesse Owens to not compete in Berlin.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This campus was nicknamed Speed City USA.
What is San Jose State University?
This ancient Greek word meant excellence.
What is arete?
This was the amount of profit made during the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games.
What is $215 million?
It was this treaty that prompted how Germany felt about the world after The Great War and impacted their ideas for hosting the Games in 1936.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This was the name of the group of athletes who considered a boycott of the 1968 Summer Games.
What is the Olympic Project for Human Rights?
By the year 2030, these three cities will have hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times each.
What are Los Angeles, London, and Paris?
This is the name of the program targeting elite corporate sponsors for the IOC.
What is the Olympic Partner Programme?
This was the year that the IOC amended their charter and began to include sustainability requirements into the bid package for those bidding to host the Games.
What is 1996?
This was the off-site location where the resolution to the 1972 Munich hostage crisis came to its horrible end.
What is Furstenfeldbruck Airfield?
This is the name of the small subset of IOC members that manages the overall mission, charter, and functions of the IOC.
What is the Executive Board?