adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Olympic champion
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She's a top international athlete and an Olympic champion.
an Olympic record
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He won a gold medal and broke the Olympic record by 44 records.
Olympic Games, the
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the 1976 Olympic Games
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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athlete
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The Olympic athlete with a big heart.
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Scott recruited an Olympic athlete to hurl the hammer and London skinheads as audience extras.
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I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs.
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What was he, she thought bitterly, an Olympic athlete ?
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Or to know more about Olympic athletes past and present.
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He concentrated on training me to become an Olympic athlete .
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But the question still rankles: Can a participating Olympic athlete be openly gay today?
champion
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Though Jackson was the first to congratulate the Olympic champion , the disappointment was written all over his face.
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She wanted to be a true Olympic champion .
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He was a top international athlete, an Olympic champion .
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His system produced Olympic champions Comaneci and Retton.
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By the time the Olympic champion finished in eighth, her emotions were laid bare for the crowd.
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Quincy Watts, the 1992 Olympic champion , faded to eighth and did not qualify for the Olympic team.
committee
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He said last week that chess is on the agenda for the next International Olympic Committee executive board meeting.
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The Olympic Committee finally agreed, and the organizers went to work.
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By a bizarre chance, the International Olympic Committee may now have achieved what Mao failed to.
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A mere 18 months ago members of his International Olympic Committee stood accused of taking bribes.
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The procedure has not gained formal approval by the International Olympic Committee because it does not give conclusive proof of drug use.
event
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Currently a demonstration sport, the 1996 Olympics will see Tae Kwon-Do become a scheduled Olympic event .
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And where shopping for art could be an Olympic event .
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When an Olympic event incorporates brawling with the paparazzi into its most compelling moments, something has gone horribly wrong.
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How about rugby and tug-of-war, both discontinued Olympic events ?
flame
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Now Carter is on the verge of burning brighter than the Olympic flame .
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Everywhere you look, there are zealous keepers of the Olympic flame .
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Bondi is where the beach is burning hotter than the Olympic flame .
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Associated Press Cathy Freeman ignites the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony.
games
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In 1989 Seoul plans to host the Olympic Games ... out of doors?
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Two, the goodwill of the people involved is something that makes for a successful Olympic Games .
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To me it was electric, like the Olympic Games .
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These Olympic games are themselves the product not of a municipal bid, but of private entrepreneurship.
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The Olympic Games may now be post-Cold-War.
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The third task of universities is a sort of Olympic games for intellectuals.
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There are those who hope this international sports extravaganza called the Olympic Games someday waltzes its way through Texas.
gold
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Remember us when you win the slalom Olympic gold .
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Cioroslan and others simply question whether Henry possesses the form and commitment needed to turn that power into Olympic gold .
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The Brit athletics superstar found Olympic gold in the heptathlon after two days of severe punishment.
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They won two Olympic gold medals, at Calgary and Lillehammer.
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She was beaming then, as she accepted the Olympic gold in Barcelona.
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Gunnell gave herself the perfect wedding present when she unwrapped an Olympic gold medal in the 400metres hurdles.
history
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That line is a little faded now, but it still brings back memories of the toughest marathon finish in Olympic history .
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The athletic competition was without question some of the best in Olympic history .
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With a seating capacity of 115, 000, it will be the largest stadium in Olympic history .
marathon
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It was the same stadium that Melpomene, an unofficial woman entrant, stepped into in 1986 in the first Olympic marathon .
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After the 1984 Olympic marathon trials, Joan Benoit Samuelson had knee surgery.
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The reason for this could be that the course for this year's Olympic marathon in Barcelona fails the two main criteria.
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Griffin is hoping to run in the London Marathon and is aiming for the Olympic marathon in Barcelona.
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He graciously agreed to coach me informally as I attempted to qualify for the 1980 Olympic marathon trials.
medal
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The club believes she has real Olympic medal potential.
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She won three Olympic medals and is still considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
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Sixsmith's late strike gave the women's side their first-ever Olympic medal .
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For the first time since 1920, no national records were set. Olympic medal projections based on world rankings are grim.
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Booth had his Test exploits as consolation for missing out on an Olympic medal in hockey.
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As it is, you might be able to hang an Olympic medal around her neck in a few more days.
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At 18, she is one of Britain's best prospects for an Olympic medal in Barcelona this summer.
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Considered by many as the greatest female athlete of all time, Joyner-Kersee has won a total of six Olympic medals .
movement
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Some wondered if the Olympic movement simply has grown too big.
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And none were more vital to an Olympic movement whose integrity and mission had been questioned than Johnson, Lewis and Strug.
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If his priorities drag down the Olympic movement , whose fault is that?
official
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The bombing has forced Olympic officials to step up security measures throughout Olympic venues and surrounding facilities.
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It was such an unlikely double that Olympic officials had to be convinced to change the schedules around to accommodate the quest.
park
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Part of the stage erupted at 1: 26 a. m., and metal shards flew all over Centennial Olympic Park .
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And there are just four X-ray portals at the main entrance to Olympic Park .
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Exhibits set up by corporate sponsors fill most of the space in Centennial Olympic Park downtown.
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The farthest venue from Olympic Park , rowing, is 25 miles away.
record
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Florence Griffith Joyner won the 100 and 200 in Seoul, establishing Olympic records in each.
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Johnson looked like Secretariat at the Preakness, leaving everyone in his dust, breaking the Olympic record .
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Q: How did it feel setting the Olympic record by winning the gold medal in the 200-and 400-meter runs?
ring
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The water forms the shape of the five Olympic rings in the air.
spirit
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For Richard Burnell, the Olympic spirit of 1948 has been tarnished by the passage of time.
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Here, maybe I helped people realize that when things are pretty grim, there still can be an Olympic spirit .
sport
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We suffer because we are not an Olympic sport .
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Starting Saturday, you can still order tickets to 13 Olympic sports by phone if you have a Visa card.
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Much better was the new Olympic sport , curling.
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In a magazine article that compared the training rigors and athleticism in various Olympic sports , the rowers rated highest.
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In 1964, judo became an Olympic sport , and remains the only martial art in the games.
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The thought of rope skipping as an Olympic sport may seem ludicrous until you see the jumpers in action.
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His is one of the less glamorous Olympic sports , weightlifting.
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But now that it is an Olympic sport , people will take it more seriously.
stadium
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Behind the police stood the vast, ninety-thousand-seater Olympic Stadium .
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The jewel in the crown would be a projected £120m 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium next to the village.
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This hurt Payne, who saw the Olympic stadium as a $ 207 million gift to the community.
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In the end, Liverpool were so grateful for the two goals Owen scored in the Olympic Stadium a fortnight ago.
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The site would be the Olympic stadium , which was heavily shelled but still stands.
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The jam around the Olympic Stadium could get particularly ugly.
standard
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Training to Olympic standard takes hours out of the day, years out of a young life.
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Sac, where he met the required Olympic standard of 28: 10 or faster.
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The focal point of the Centre is an Olympic standard 2000 metre water sports course which hosts events.
team
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Arthur is the second butcher to back Britain's Olympic team .
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They are among the national squad scullers competing who are seeking a place in the Olympic team .
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If we lose, people will say we lost to their Olympic team .
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Playing on his fifth Olympic team , he has never finished higher than fifth.
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Rebecca Lobo may be off globetrotting with the Olympic team , but the cupboard down there in Storrs is not exactly bare.
title
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Steve has a track record of not allowing medical adversity to stand in the way of his relentless pursuit of Olympic titles .
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An Olympic title would yield $ 65, 000 in prize money, more than tripling his current annual income.
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Hoping to win his third Olympic title , in Barcelona.
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He has won the last four world championship races and two consecutive Olympic titles , establishing a world record of 43.18sec.
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He then regained the 200m record that Pieter van den Hoogenband had claimed along with the Olympic title five months ago.
torch
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She was held up as a living version of the Olympic torch , burning with the spirit of sportsmanship.
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I could swear the Olympic torch carrier who came running past my street the other day was a dwarf.
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The Olympic torch will be carried into the stadium.
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The 1996 Olympic Torch Relay offers such an opportunity.
trial
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At the Olympic trials later this year, the top six will qualify for the Olympics.
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Robert Peel, 30, a stockbroker, had made his first Olympic trials final.
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The Olympic trials could also offer a hint of things to come.
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Four years ago, Anita Nall was the teenage darling of the Olympic trials .
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In two months, she will attend the Olympic trials in Indianapolis.
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The season before the 1994 Olympic trials was a disaster.
village
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Black September carried out its Olympic Village massacre and 16 people died.
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Some rowers have abandoned the Olympic Village , concerned about being stranded 50 miles from the competition venue.
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Then they moved into the military base, their private Olympic Village .
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I am longing to mix in the Olympic Village with the other competitors from different sports and different countries.
year
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After a comparatively quiet two years my athletics career came alive again in 1984, Olympic year.
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It was in the winter of 1987-88 that I announced I was going to race mostly in Britain in Olympic year .
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I made my second journey to Cosford in 1980, an Olympic year - though I had no aspirations in that direction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Olympic flag
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the German Olympic team
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aboriginal Olympic runner Cathy Freeman has spoken out on the issue.
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He said last week that chess is on the agenda for the next International Olympic Committee executive board meeting.
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It also suggests picking Berlin as an Olympic Games site.
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Reports that golf will not be included in the next Olympic Games were denied at a conference staged during a busy week.
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Sac, where he met the required Olympic standard of 28: 10 or faster.
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She wanted to be a true Olympic champion.
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Then they moved into the military base, their private Olympic Village.