Olympic Games

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Learning Resources
teacherplanet.com/resource/summerolympics.php

A collection of learning resources for teachers. The collection includes lessons and units, clipart and images, colouring pages and worksheets.

Beijing Bound - CBC.ca
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/beijingbound/

Features on the CBC Web site with background information on Beijing, preparations for the Summer Olympics and Canadian athletes.

Canadian Olympians  
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/olympians/index-e.html

The Canadian Olympians site provides a searchable images database of Canadian athletes at the Olympics, from the early 1900s through 2004. The database currently holds more than 10 000 images.

Canadian Olympic Committee  
http://www.olympic.ca/EN/index.shtml

The Canadian Olympic Committee is a national, private, not-for-profit organization committed to sport excellence. It is responsible for all aspects of Canada's involvement in the Olympic movement, including Canada's participation in the Olympic and Pan American Games and a wide variety of programs that promote the Olympic Movement in Canada through cultural and educational means.

CBC Olympics
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/

This Web site contains news article on Olympic Games events, articles on the history and the essentials of each of the Olympic Games disciplines as well as a glossary for each. Also available is a history of the Summer Games from 1896 to 2004.

Dicolympic  
http://www.dicolympic.com/?s=dico&l=en

Olympic Games dictionary with more than 2000 entries.

Learn Foreign Languages with Fuwa  
http://en.beijing2008.cn/languagecorner/

This section on the official Web site of the Beijing 2008 Olympics provides the text and audio file for a simple sentence every day in English, Putonghua and French.

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games  
http://en.beijing2008.cn/

Olympic and Paralympic Summer Sport Glossary  
http://www.lexique-jo.org/beijin/

Trilingual glossary expressions related to each sport event in the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (French-English-Chinese).

Olympic and Paralympic Winter Sports Official Lexicon  
http://www.lexique-jo.org/turin/

Trilingual lexicon of terms related to each sport event in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games (French-English-Italian).

Triumph and Tragedy
http://med.stanford.edu/personal/boydhouse/kbsamples2/olyhist/

A concise illustrated history of the modern Olympic Games.

Vancouver 2010  

Official Web site of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.