the Olympics

noun

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

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Making the Olympics would put her on the same stage as Colorado’s two most famous female swimmers in Franklin Johnson (five-time gold medalist) and Cherry Creek alum Amy Van Dyken-Rouen (six-time gold medalist). —

Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, the Olympics will be held in Los Angeles in 2028, during the last summer of Trump's second term in office. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025 Lillard is the reigning All-Star MVP, and Brown, going back to the international discussion, was left off Team USA for the Olympics last summer and remains displeased about it. —

Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025 And so were four coaches who spent long hours on the ice teaching jumps and spins, twizzles and loops, double and triple axels to talented skaters, some on the path to the Olympics. —

Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for the Olympics