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Creative Designs of the New Winter Olympics 2014 Pictograms. Articles, News November 5, 2012 The 2014 Winter Olympics or the 22nd Winter Olympics will be celebrated on February 7-23 in Sochi, Russia.

Creative Designs of the New Winter Olympics 2014 Pictograms

A total of 98 events in 15 winter sports will be held. The Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC) will organize both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Some few updates about the most anticipated event in sports history are the game venues, mascots, and the calendar of events. Another addition to the long list of progress for the grand event is the new set of pictograms for the Games. The set of pictograms is inspired by the 1980 Olympics in Moscow game icons but with a creative twist.

Freestyle Skiing, Aerials Figure Skating Biathlon Snowboard, Parallel Events Freestyle Skiing – Halfpipe Alpine Skiing Luge Bobsleigh Ice Hockey Nordic Combined Speed Skating Freestyle Skiing – Ski Cross Ski Jumping Skeleton Short Track Speed Skating Check out all the pictograms in this Flickr set. Origami Olympic Rings Craft for Kids. Have some fun with this clever origami Olympic rings craft for kids - with help even the youngest children will be able to do it!

Origami Olympic Rings Craft for Kids

Our completed Olympic rings! You will need: 6 inch square origami paper (or cut your own squares from standard paper) in red, green, black, blue and yellowGlue stick Instructions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Repeat steps 1-4 with the green paper. Make an Olive Leaf Crown. List of Summer and Winter Olympic Sports and Events. The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games. These days you don't have to look far to see the connection between salesmanship and sports--some would even say that the line between sales pitching and fast pitches has become completely blurred.

The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

At Olympic competitions, athletes' uniforms and equipment bear the discreet but readily identifiable trademarks of their manufacturers. After the Games, we are presented with images of Olympians endorsing products and appearing on cereal boxes. Later, some Olympic celebrities become commodities themselves, as TV shows and record labels cash in on their fame. Sculptures of Athletes...Commercial Appearances? Olympic Motto and Olympic Creed. The Olympic Motto - Citius, Altius, Fortius A friend of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Father Henri Martin Didon of the Dominican order, was principal of Arcueil College, near Paris.

Olympic Motto and Olympic Creed

An energetic teacher, he used the discipline of sport as a powerful educational tool. One day, following an interschool athletics meeting, Didon ended his speech quoting three Latin words: Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger). Struck by the succinctness of this phrase, Baron Pierre de Coubertin made it the Olympic motto, pointing out that "Athletes need 'freedom of excess.' That is why we gave them this motto...a motto for people who dare to try to break records. " Athletes Oath. Sochi 2014. Mascot. Rebus Puzzles (Pictogram Puzzles)

Rebus_playinthesnow_bw. The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games. The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses.

The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

The festival and the games were held in Olympia (see 'Did you know' in the glossary), a rural sanctuary site (model shown here, courtesy of the British Museum) in the western Peloponnesos. The Greeks that came to the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia shared the same religious beliefs and spoke the same language. The Ancient Olympics. Ancient and Modern Olympic SportsA Tour of Ancient OlympiaThe Context of the Games and the Olympic SpiritAthletes' Stories Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Olympics Offical website of the Olympic Movement Further Reading This exhibit is a subset of materials from the Perseus database and is copyrighted.

The Ancient Olympics

Winter Olympics Printables. The winter olympics only happen once every 4 years.

Winter Olympics Printables

Why not celebrate them with your kid(s) by giving them some fun printable activity pages. Cold winter days are the perfect time to work on fun winter olympics printables. Ancient Olympic Games, First Olympics in Olympia. According to historical records, the first ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 BC.

Ancient Olympic Games, First Olympics in Olympia

They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were staged on the ancient plains of Olympia. They continued for nearly 12 centuries, until Emperor Theodosius decreed in 393 A.D. that all such "pagan cults" be banned. Olympia. Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Sochi 2014 Olympics - Olympic Tickets, Sports & Schedule. Action everywhere, from the Black Sea coast to the Krasnaya Polyana mountains.

Sochi 2014 Olympics - Olympic Tickets, Sports & Schedule

Superb competition venues for spectacular events, historic performances and numerous records – the XXII Olympic Winter Games kept all their promises. Here are the most memorable athlete exploits that took place in Sochi between 6 and 23 February 2014: At 10.55 p.m. on Friday 7 February 2014, Russian three-time Olympic champions Irina Rodnina (pairs figure skating) and Vladislav Tretiak (ice hockey) lit the Olympic cauldron. News - Science of the Olympic Winter Games. Science of the Olympic Winter Games 2010 NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding.

News - Science of the Olympic Winter Games

This groundbreaking project between the NSF and NBC Learn uses the global spotlight of the Olympics to make science more accessible and more interesting to students by showing how science helps athletes fulfill the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius--Swifter, Higher, Stronger. Read more about the "Science of the Olympic Winter Games. " Each video is complemented with lesson plans which include fun classroom activities. The lesson plans were written by teachers at Academic Business Consultants for grades 6-9 and are aligned with California State Standards. View video (4:00 min.) Learning Zone Class Clips - The ancient Olympic Games (pt 1/3) their importance - Classical Studies Video. History - Ancient History in depth: Ancient Greek Olympics Gallery. Primary History - Ancient Greeks - The Olympic Games.