the Olympics

noun

: a series of international athletic contests held in a different country once every four years

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One proposal for adapting the Winter Games to a warmer world is to merge the Olympics and Paralympics, although this could make the event unwieldy. —

Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026 This marked Leerdam’s first-ever gold medal at the Olympics and her second overall medal after winning silver in Beijing in 2022. —

Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026 Not since perhaps Hermann Maier's cartwheeling crash at the 1998 Nagano Games had there been such a high-profile and spectacular fall in Alpine skiing at the Olympics. —

Andrew Dampf, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026 Top-level athletes like Armbruster have plenty of sponsors, but still miss out on opportunities without the promise of the Olympics. —

Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Olympics