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#snsinstitution #snsdesignthinking #snsdesignthinkers The modern Olympic Games (OG; or Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques, JO)[a][1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition, with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. By default, the Games generally substitute for any world championships during the year in which they take place (however, each class usually maintains its own records).[2] The Olympic Games are held every four years. Since 1994, they have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year Olympiad.[3][4] Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, held in Olympia, Greece from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, which encompasses all entities and individuals involved in the Olympic Games. The Olympic Charter defines their structure and authority.

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris officially get underway (competition actually started on Wednesday) today with the most ambitious Opening Ceremonies ever conducted. What most people won’t be thinking about (and brands interested in marketing around the Olympics need to be) is that today not only marks the start of the Summer Olympics, but it also comes just 561 days before the start of the 2026 Winter Games in Italy. The short turnaround between Summer and Winter Olympics is a stark contrast to the 902 days that passed between the opening of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and the start of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. That means brands who want to join in on the Olympic movement have 341 fewer days to sign deals, build strategies and execute. So, as you enjoy the amazing competition that will unfold in Paris (full schedule below), let’s start to have that discussion about how to capture the momentum of partnering with a national governing body as it builds towards sending America’s best to Italy in 2026. 👉 Olympic Schedule: https://lnkd.in/dknDA74i #thetimeisnow #planahead #gousa

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Tomorrow marks the official beginning to the Paris Summer Olympics. I've compiled the following statistics which will allow you to sound like an Olympic expert when talking to anyone about the summer games. Paris Olympic Games by the numbers. 1: For the first time, Breaking, also known as break dancing, and kayak cross will make their Olympic debuts. 3: Paris has now hosted the Olympics three times, in 1900, 1924, and 2024, making it one of only three cities to do so, along with London and Los Angeles. 6: France has hosted the Olympic games six times in total, including the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. 20: Mixed gender team events. 35: The number of venues that will be used. 45: The number of different sports at the Olympics. 152: Total number of events for women. 157: Total number of events for men. 206: The number of countries expected to participate in this summer’s games. 329: The number of medal events. 1,900: The 1900 Paris Olympic games were the first time women were allowed to compete 10,500: Approximate number of athletes who will compete in Paris. 20,000: Accredited journalists 45,000: volunteers who signed on. 

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The modern Olympic Games have changed a lot since they began more than 120 years ago. For example, tug-of-war has come and gone as an Olympic sport. We don't shoot at live pigeons anymore. At the first modern Games in Athens, Greece (1896), even the prizes were different. There was no gold medal. First-place winners received a silver medal and an olive branch. Second place was awarded a bronze medal and a laurel branch. Third place got a pat on the back and a wish for better luck next time. The current three-medal system arrived at the next Olympic Games, held in Paris in 1900. First place received a gilt silver medal (silver coated in a thin layer of gold), followed by a simple silver medal for second place and bronze for third. First-place winners at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games got solid gold medals for the first time. Today, original Olympic first-place medals are pretty rare — there were only 43 events at the first modern Games, and many medals have been lost to time, though a few have come up for auction in the last couple of decades. One silver medal that was never awarded at the event sold in 2012 for around $32,000. It was intended for a boat race that was canceled due to high winds. Two more were sold in July 2021 and January 2024 for $180,000 and $112,000, respectively. Even now, Olympic "gold medals" are still mostly silver. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) mandates they be composed of at least 92.5% silver. Of course, host countries mint their own medals, and often put personalized touches inside. Japan, used metal from obsolete electronics. For the 2024 Paris Games, France incorporated pieces of the Eiffel Tower into the medals. #ClaimsKrewe

I Bet You Didn’t Know: The Olympics - I Bet You Didn’t Know winners in the ancient Olympics received free meals, free pass to the Colosseum and Wreath Bouquets. -I Bet You Didn’t Know in 393, AD Roman Emperor Theodosius banned the Olympics because he felt it encouraged paganism. - I Bet You Didn’t Know for the 1924 games Paris created the first Olympic Village. Prior to this participants stayed in hotels, schools and private homes. - I Bet You Didn’t Know from 1912-1948 Art & Music was a competitive event. This ended in 1954 when the IOC felt it was dominated by professionals. - I Bet You Didn’t Know 1904 was the first time Gold, Silver and Bronze were awarded. - I Bet You Didn’t Know for this year’s Basketball event features 76 current/ former NBA Players on 11 teams. - I Bet You Didn’t know in 1996 Archer Poala Fantao was the first athlete to participate in the Olympics and Paralympics during the same year! - I Bet You Didn’t Know the 2000 opening ceremony North and South Korea marched together under a unified Korea Flag. - I Bet You Didn’t know the Paralympics were formed in 1948 by UK soldiers that used sports to help them recover from WW2 injuries. Today, Paralympics is the World’s 3rd largest sports event behind the Olympics and World Cup! - I Bet You Didn’t Know there’s five types of private mortgage insurance. For details contact [email protected] #Olympics #Olympic #athletics #Paris #France #history #education #Paralympics #Paralympics #Paris2024 #mortageinsurance #privatemortageinsutence #mortagebroker #commericalmortagebroker #trivia #knowledge

Excitement is building for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, set to begin on July 26. According to a recent Leger survey for the Association for Canadian Studies, conducted from July 12-15, 2024, Canadians have high expectations for their athletes, anticipating a medal count surpassing the 24 medals won in Tokyo 2020, where Canada finished 11th overall. Remarkably, 75% of those medals were won by women. The survey, which involved 1,784 respondents, highlights that most Canadians view the country as a top-ten contender in international sports and expect a top-ten finish in Paris. Additionally, Canadians are divided on their preference between the Summer and Winter Olympics but agree that performance is more important than winning. For more details, you can read the full study here: https://lnkd.in/e98Ac23Y

The International Olympic Committee – IOC has its fair share of controversies but there is one which particularly bugs me every 4 years. They go through a very elaborate protocol for sequencing countries for the Parade of Nations (Greece is traditionally first, the host nation last. The majority of the others show up alphabetically – as in the language of the host). Nice, but then after that detail they cop out. They don’t officially rank countries by medals. And their unofficial list is sequenced by amount of Gold Medals each country wins. Only in a tie in Golds, do the Silvers and Bronzes count. So, at each Games, on most days you have the US ranked 2nd,  3rd or 5th, even when they easily have the most total medals. Look at the Le Monde medal tracker by date in the linked article, and you can see by the 3rd day at the Paris games, the US already had the most medals and its lead kept growing. Now it has 30 more medals than the 2nd ranked China. However, there is still a chance China could close it out, ranked 1st because they may end up with most Golds. Why even bother to award Silver and Bronze medals in that case? How insulting to those athletes, when the margin of difference between these elite athletes is so tiny.