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OLYMPIC GAMES HISTORY

  • 1956 Melbourne Olympics - online exhibit from the State Library of Victoria.
  • AAF Olympic Games Primer
  • Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum - includes background history, descriptions of original events, and interviews with history professors. Presented by Dartmouth College.
  • Ancient Olympics: The Real Story - online exhibit from the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
  • Bud Greenspan's Olympic Visions
  • Canada Olympic Park - site of the 1988 Olympic Games. Today it is a year-round sport and recreation facility with an Olympic Hall of Fame.
  • Hellenic Ministry of Culture: The Olympic Games - includes information on the ancient Olympic games and their modern revival.
  • HickokSports.com: History: The Ancient Olympics - This document is a history of the ancient Olympics. It is a page in the History section of HickokSports.com, an online collection of sports information.
  • High Hurdles and White Gloves - an athlete from the first modern Olympic games in 1896 remembers the event. First published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1956.
  • History of the Ancient Olympics - Article on the ancient Olympics.
  • Hungarians in the Olympics
  • Izzy - the Olympics are over, but the mascot lives on.
  • Kodak: Olympics 2000: Olympic History - includes an animated timeline of the modern games with images and factual detail, from 1896 to the present.
  • Michigan in the Olympics - online exhibit of University of Michigan athletes and coaches who have participated in Olympic games 1900-1996.
  • Olympic Games in the Ancient Hellenic World - The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum with a plethora of information about the games that are the forefathers of our modern Olympics.
  • Olympic Museum (Musee Olympique) - offers a history of the games, virtual galleries, and information about the Olympic Studies Centre (OSC).
  • Olympic Park Montréal - with a list of events at the stadium, history, tourist information and more.
  • Olympic Results - results and rankings.
  • Olympic Winter Games: History
  • Olympics Through Time - thorough exploration of the Olympics' prehistory, antiquity and revival. From the Foundation of the Hellenic World.
  • Perseus Project: The Ancient Olympics - compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour Olympia as it looks today, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times.
  • The Ancient Olympics - Includes a comparison of ancient and modern Olympics, essays about the history of the Olympics, and stories of ancient Olympic athletes.
  • The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 - images and information about Nazi Germany leading up to the Olympics, from an exhibition created at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  • The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal?
  • Winter Games Net - unofficial chronicle, featuring a searchable database of all 20,000+ Winter Olympians.

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