Olympic Links Contents:
Virtual Library for the Olympics
The Virtual Library for the Olympics, created by the University of South Australia Library.
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/vl/olympic/olymwelc.htm
Olympic Oath, Rings & Torch The Olympic Primer
, presented by the Amateur Athletics Association of Los Angeles, provides short, clear descriptions of the symbols of the Games, including brief historic facts.
http://www.aafla.com/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicPrimer/OlympicPrimer_.htm#V_FPATAO
Torch Relay site contains information on the route the torch relay will take of its journey from Greece to Salt Lake City Utah, USA.
http://www.saltlake2002.com/sloc/beyond_sport/torch_relay/torch_wrapper.html
Global Olympic Sites The Olympic Information Center
is part of the Amateur Athletic Foundation which houses one of the world's largest collections of materials pertaining to the Olympic Games. The site provides
access to Official Reports (in adobe acrobat); early Winter games photographs; details on books
about the Olympics; information on art and sport; an Olympic Primer; facts about future Olympic
cities and a page of games for children (and adults) testing Olympic knowledge. http://www.aafla.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicInformationCenter.htm
The official site of the Olympic Movement appears in both French and English. Pages on the
Olympic family (the International Olympic Committee, IOC; National Olympic Committees, NOC;
International Sports Federations, IF and the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games,
OCOG); the past games (since 1924); an Olympic Museum; future games (2000 - 2004); a
retrospective (on Nagano and Atlanta) and Olympic partners (official sponsors) are included. The
site has a searchable index and site map to aid navigation, but requires Java to be enabled on your browser. It can also be slow to download, but is worth the wait.
http://www.olympic.org/ The Olympic Studies Centre manages the International Chair in Olympism which was created
in 1995 by agreement between Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the International
Olympic Committee. The website reflects the objectives of the chair, which are "to promote
research, education and the dissemination of the Olympic Movement's ideals at university level". A
directory of international research, the proceedings of the 1998 Olympia Internet Seminar and
access to a wealth of information on topics including: Olympic education; forums on Olympism and sport; and adapted sport and paralympics are accessible via the home page.
http://blues.uab.es/olympic.studies/
Olympic Committees, by Country The International Olympic Committee website contains information on National Olympic Committees
from around the world, which can be selected from a searchable graphic of the globe. Many National Olympic Committee pages include details about the country's Olympic team; the
structure and organization of that Olympic Committee; contact details and information about
Olympic officials, and other information about the Olympics in relation to that country.
http://www.olympic.org/ioc/e/org/noc/noc_list_e.html
Another online searchable directory, which includes National Olympic Committees, is available from the Center of Olympic Studies, Barcelona.
http://olympicstudies.uab.es/
Local Olympic News Sites
Salt Lake Tribune Olympic Archive
http://www.sltrib.com/specials/olympics2002/index.htm
Deseret News Olympic Web Site
http://deseretnews.com/dn/oly/0,1633,,00.html?
International Olympic News Sites NBC Olympic Web Site
http://nbcolympics.com
Around the Rings Online is an online companion to the print publication Around the Rings. This
site provides access to some of the content of the current and past issues of the newsletter itself, and
is constantly updated with Olympic and world sporting news, links, and dates.
http://www.aroundtherings.com/
CNN with Sports Illustrated Olympics NewsSite provides access to a wide range of media related to the Olympics, both past and upcoming.
http://cgi.cnnsi.com/olympics/
Olympic Studies Center
The International Centre for Olympic Studies includes details on conference information, lecture
series, publications and related sites. The site, which is part of the University of Ontario, is housed in Canada, but is reasonably fast to download.
http://www.uwo.ca/olympic/
Bibliographies
The Library of Congress in the USA has compiled this annotated bibliography of Olympic related publications, primarily drawing from items held in its collection.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/main/olympics/bibliogr.html |
