Sentence examples for this olympiad from inspiring English sources

Fekete's hopes for his team at this Olympiad echoed those stated by his captain, Leighton, ahead of this outing.

Since you are, most likely, watching this Olympiad from home, rather than competing, you should at least take a moment to exercise your mind with this week's quiz.

Aside from the torpedo-shaped bulldog that is Adam Peaty they have been the two most memorable swimmers at this Olympiad so far.

This Olympiad likely would have been the only one in which Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray, the host-island favorite, could have competed against each other at peak form.

When Brazil was selected as the host of this Olympiad, seven years ago, it seemed fitting that the great South American nation — much admired for many things, including its people's renowned charisma — should have the honor of hosting the 2016 Games.

Indeed, although this Olympiad's mascots were inspired (so the official Olympics Web site informs you) by an ancient Greek doll, the tradition they really belong to is the fairly recent one of infantile Olympic mascots: Misha the Russian Bear (Moscow, 1980), Sam the Eagle (Los Angeles, 1984), Hodori the Tiger (Seoul, 1988).

Double Olympic champion Reed, 31, told BBC Sport: "There's lots of options, lots of enthusiasm and lots of potential to switch seats at this stage of the Olympiad.

"I'm disappointed that the chance for me to defend my Olympic title has been taken away, especially at this late stage in the Olympiad only two years before Olympic qualification," said Romero.

As a former classics scholar, Johnson is certainly aware that this political subtext to the Games of the Olympiad is as old as the event itself – which of course predates the ancient Roman form of electioneering satirised by Juvenal as "panem et circenses".

This is an Olympiad Russian-style! Nadia ended up in the hospital.

The brief history of the Cultural Olympiad is this.