Sentence examples for first olympiad from inspiring English sources

Next weekend sees the opening of Russia's first Olympiad since the summer games in Moscow in 1980.

The London Games were also the first Olympiad wherein each participating country had at least one female athlete competing.

In the first Olympiad, in 1896, the American Sumner Paine used a Colt revolver to win one gold and one silver in the pistol competition.

The first Olympiad of modern times was celebrated in 1896, and subsequent Olympiads are numbered consecutively, even when no Games take place (as was the case in 1916, 1940, and 1944).

In that first Olympiad, for example, the marathon was won by a Greek runner, Spyros Louis, in 2 58.50; he was the only entrant to run the race in under three hours.

Some had a memorable trip when they came to watch Lancashire lose in the World League Twenty20 play-off final two years ago; a dozen or so others were here only three months ago, to watch the 2020 Olympic Games, the first Olympiad to be staged on the subcontinent.

It is built into the organism, and always was, from the first Olympiads, when cheating was an art form.

Plutarch tells us of another special episode, at the seventy-sixth Olympiad (476 B.C).

Plutarch tells us of another special episode, at the seventy-sixth Olympiad (476 B.C).

The Roman Emperor Nero, for example, was allowed to enter and win some contests in the two-hundred-and-eleventh Olympiad.

The first week of the twenty-ninth Olympiad of the modern era, and the first to be held in China, was always going to be sprinkled with diplomatic tensions.