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at a special congress in Paris in 1906, and the first official programme was presented during the 1912 Games in Stockholm. These competitions were also named the "Pentathlon of the Muses", as their purpose was to bring artists to present their work and compete for "art" medals across five categories:
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is a concept protected by the International Olympic Committee and may be used only within the limits defined by an Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. From one Games to the next, the scale of the Cultural Olympiad varies considerably, sometimes involving activity over the entire Olympiad and
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th Winter Olympiad", perhaps believing it to be the correct formal name for the Winter Games by analogy with that of the Summer Games. Indeed, at least one IOC-published article has applied this nomenclature as well. This analogy is sometimes extended further by media references to "Summer
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Nonetheless, the count of the Olympiads continued: The 1936 Games were those of the XI Olympiad, while the next Summer Games were those of 1948, which were the Games of the XIV Olympiad. The current Olympiad is the XXXIII of the modern era, which began on 1 January 2024.
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about 432 BC, the start of the games was determined slightly differently. Within each olympiad, time was reckoned by referring to its 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year. Ancient writers sometimes describe their Olympiads as lasting five years but do so by
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This means that the count of the Olympiads continues, even if Olympic Games are cancelled: For instance, the regular intervals would have meant (summer) Olympic Games should have occurred in 1940 and 1944, but both were cancelled due to
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However, the IOC does not seem to make an official distinction between Olympiads for the summer and winter games, and such usage, particularly for the Winter Olympics, is inconsistent with the numbering discussed above.
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The English term is still often used popularly to indicate the games themselves, a usage that is uncommon in ancient Greek (as an Olympiad is most often the time period
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The modern Olympiad is a period of four years: the first Olympiad started on 1 January 1896, and an Olympiad starts on 1 January of the years evenly divisible by four.
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specifically. In Book 1 chapter 75 Dionysius states: "...Romulus, the first ruler of the city, began his reign in the first year of the seventh Olympiad, when
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outlawed the games at Olympia as pagan. Though it would have been possible to continue the reckoning by just counting four-year periods, by the middle of the
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is used to indicate a regular event of international competition for top achieving participants; it does not necessarily indicate a four-year period.
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in the Proleptic Julian calendar, and to treat it as Year 1 of Olympiad 1. Olympiad 2 began with the next games in the summer of 772 
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Nowadays, while there are no competitions as such, cultural and artistic practice is displayed via the Cultural Olympiad. The
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allowed Greek historians to use the Olympiads as a way of reckoning time that did not depend on the various calendars of the
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Early historians sometimes used the names of Olympic victors as a method of dating events to a specific year. For instance,
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but disagreed on how many; the convention was established to place Coroebus's victory at a time equivalent to the summer of
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and ended four years later. By extrapolation, the 4th year of the 700th Olympiad begins roughly around 2 August 2024.
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In reference to the modern Olympics, their Olympiads are four year periods beginning on January 1 of the year of the
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Though the games were held without interruption, on more than one occasion they were held by others than the
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other times emphasizing specific periods within it. Baron Pierre de Coubertin established the principle of
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had been generally accepted. The panhellenic nature of the games, their regular schedule, and the improved
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and including sets of games). It is also used to indicate international competitions other than physical
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Each olympiad started with the holding of the games, which originally began on the first or second
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This article is about the Olympic Games. For the American thoroughbred racehorse, see
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and ended four years later. For N greater than or equal to 195, Olympiad N began in
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with the London 2012 Festival in the host city, and events elsewhere including the
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Thus, for N less than 195, Olympiad N is reckoned as having started in the year
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consuls, and the Eleians celebrated the Seventy-fifth Olympiad, that in which
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Some media people have from time to time referred to a particular (e.g., the
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was the first writer to compile a comprehensive list of the Olympic victors (
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Period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks
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says in his account of the year 428 BC: "It was the Olympiad in which the
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The Origin of the Olympics: Ancient Calendars and the Race Against Time
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are more correctly referred to as the Games of the Olympiad. The first
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to year 3 of Olympiad 194, the 42nd year of the reign of the emperor
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The XXI Winter Olympiad was to be the first 'social media Games'.
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does not count Olympiads, it counts only the Games themselves.
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at Athens was in the first year of his ten-year term as archon."
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to the first year of the seventh Olympiad, 752 & 751 
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and their associated national qualifying tests (e.g., the
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to announce the games using this term was the one for the
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architecture, music, literature, sculpture and painting.
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summarized the events of each Olympiad in a book called
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that the first recorded Olympic contest was used as a
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Although the ancient Olympics were established during
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that a consistent list was established and not until
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promising "secret" and "spontaneous" events such as
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Index

Cultural Olympiad
Olympiad (horse)

Olympia
Greek
ancient
modern Olympic Games
Greece's Archaic Era
Hippias
Ephorus
Hellenistic period
calendar epoch
Coroebus
776 BC
Summer Games
Julian
Gregorian calendars
full moon
summer solstice
Metonic cycle
counting inclusively
sophist
Hippias
Eratosthenes
Coroebus
victor list
city-states
Attic calendar
Athenians
Timaeus

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