Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are a series of international sporting events, open to all nations to compete in. Based heavily on the real world Olympic Games, they have become one of the most eagerly anticipated items on the sports roleplaying calendar. Although the number of nations participating in each edition of the Games has been smaller than that competing in the football World Cup, the overall number of individual athletes and events makes the Summer Olympics the largest sporting event in the world. The Winter Olympics are typically considerably smaller. Oh yeah, we probably should have mentioned: there are two Olympic Games per RL calendar year, one in the Summer for people who run and jump and swim and throw and all that stuff, and one in the Winter for people who ski, skate, snowboard, and generally molest frozen water. Plus the luge, but that's just crazy.

Various regions of the NS World have hosted regional Olympics, sometimes opening them up to foreign nations, but none have approached the scale of the NS Olympics, which are conducted on the game's main forums. The first Olympic Games to be successfully completed was the First Winter Olympics in Aeropag, Paripana, a region that has since hosted four more editions of both Summer and Winter Games. Compared to competitions in other sports, such as football and ice hockey, the Olympics were quite late in being adopted by the sports roleplayers, only beginning in 2006. For several years beforehand there had been attempts to organize a multi-sport event patterned after the real-world summer Olympics, such as Kaza '08 which was incompletely scorinated and abandoned. These efforts reflected the significant demands of developing a means to scorinate, and then overseeing the hosting of such a large series of events.

There were some historical antecedents to the first NS Olympics, though. The largest successful multi-sport event to that point had been organized by Casari, in the form of the Tyrellian Ylompic Games, which had a summer sports focus. The NS United Nations had also attempted to pass a resolution to institute an Olympic contest: the proposal was deleted, however, and came to be regarded as an interesting and historic moment in the evolution of the Enodian proposal rules, becoming the inspiration for the revised committee rules in the Hackian Laws. The inspiration for Hersfold's proposal was probably the RL 2004 Summer Olympics, and similarly the First Winter Olympics finally did come about in the wake of the RL 2006 Winter Olympics.

Long before any Olympic Games were organized, an Olympic Council was founded. This prompted great excitement but not a great deal of actual organization, and it took months before they would have any bids to vote on. The Olympic Council subsequently went into decline and was, for several years, totally defunct, in comparison with the relatively resilient World Cup Committee. Several factors contributed to this: the infrequency of the Olympics compared with other sports events; the complexity of hosting the Olympics and the consequent self-selection of hosts; and the inactivity of original members. For example, only four nations from the First Winter Olympics returned for the Fourth Winter Olympics. The Olympic Council has now been revived by the ratification of an Olympic Charter in January 2010, which established a new set of formalised rules for running the Olympics and selecting hosts. This new regime's first formal act was to hold a vote ratifying a host for the Fifth Summer Olympics, and so far it appears to be going swimmingly.

Contents 1 Olympic hosts 2 Participation 3 Sports 3.1 Summer Olympics 3.2 Winter Olympics 4 All-time medal table 5 Notable individual achievements 6 Notes 7 External links

Olympic hosts

Any nation can bid to host the Olympics, and nations from around the world come to compete. Despite this, hosting duties have historically been almost monopolised by Atlantian Oceania, a region with a strong history of involvement in sports roleplaying. Indeed, until the fourth Olympic cycle, no Games had ever been held outside this region: Alavaria, Kelssek, host of the Fourth Winter Olympics, is located in The East Pacific. This statistic is somewhat skewed by the fact that five of the eight Games up to that point were held in Paripana, owing to their proven record of reliable hosting and development of the xkoranate multi-event scorinator. The historic significance of Paripana to the NS Olympics was honoured at the Alavaria Games by the ceremonial firing of a cannon during the opening ceremony.

The method of selecting a host has varied over time. Initially, the Olympic Council controlled the process, setting deadlines for bid submissions, rejecting bids that were technically incompetent (a task assigned to an Olympic Upper Council, selected largely by reputation), and then organizing a vote (with each National Olympic Committee being permitted one vote). Over time, the Olympic Council's influence greatly diminished, and it became increasingly clear that the demands of hosting were so great that very few nations could realistically be expected to perform them. Paripana, Quakmybush, and Kelssek therefore took on hosting duties by default, in the absence of any competing bids and with no objection expected. By the time of the Fourth Summer Olympics, the process regained a degree of formality, although the Olympic Council as such still played no part. The host selection process was overseen by Kelssek, and featured a vote open to NOCs which had participated in at least one of the previous two Olympic Games. This process was repeated to select a host for the Fifth Winter Olympics, but the ratification of the Olympic Charter at the same vote means future votes have followed a more formal process.

As mentioned, hosting can be extremely time consuming, far more so than most other sporting events. Sign-ups typically open weeks in advance to allow sufficient time to register all entrants, and the generation and posting of results can take several hours, and is typically split up into two separate scorinations per day ("afternoon" and "evening", for RP purposes). xkoranate has become the standard means of simulating results for the last few Olympics, subject to periodic updates and occasional additions of new sports. At the same time, Olympic hosts are generally afforded more generous prerogatives than those of, for example, the World Cup: they could, to an extent, decide which events to include and which to drop, and which demonstration events to hold. This has seen the schedule of events fluctuate slightly over the course of the Games. By general convention, however, except for gender-inclusive moves like including women's ski jumping and boxing because we're classy like that, the events contested have been identical to those in the real-life Olympics. Under the Olympic Charter, the Executive Committee now sets standard lists of events, based on events contested in the real-life Olympics, which must be included in any Games.

Olympic Games host cities

Winter		Summer
No.	Host city	No.	Host city
I	Aeropag, Commerce Heights[1]	I	Ashford, Casari
II	Keto, Unified Capitalizt States[1]	II	Querzakhi, Unified Capitalizt States[1]
III[2]	Revena, Quakmybush	III	Columbia, Unified Capitalizt States[1]
IV	Alavaria, Kelssek	IV	Aeropag, Paripana[1]
V	São Jorge, Cafundéu	V	Outineau, Kelssek
VI	Ashton, Krytenia	VI	Lasft, Cafundeu
VII	Neverend, Liventia	VII	Emberton, Krytenia
VIII	City Centre, Liventia	VIII	to be decided

Participation

An estimated 193 National Olympic Committees have sent delegations to at least one Olympic event. Qazox is the only nation to have participated in every Olympics; Qazox, Ariddia (later known as The Ariddian Isles), Capitalizt SLANI (formerly known as Commerce Heights and Maineiacs have all competed at every edition of the Winter Olympics.

Sports

Though the programme of events contested has always been based on the real-life Olympic Games, the list of summer sports has changed subtly over time. The list of Winter Olympic events, on the other hand, has remained highly consistent over four editions. The Summer Olympics also sometimes include several demonstration sports, while only snow-angel making and bandy have been contested as demonstration events at the winter edition. The Winter Olympic programme has always consisted of fifteen official disciplines in seven sports. The only variations in the programme have been the exclusion of a women’s 5000 m speed skating event at the First Winter Olympics, and the inclusion of skicross at the failed Third Winter Olympics.

The complete list of sports is given below. The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at each Games; a bullet (●) indicates demonstration events were contested in a sport.

Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympic events list has changed on two occasions, with the most significant changes being made for the Second Summer Olympics. These changes included opening several events to women, including boxing and cycling events. Other changes included an expansion in the number of events in canoeing and the combat sports, and the elimination of cricket and rugby sevens. Some important alterations are also being made for the upcoming Fourth Summer Olympics, with the exclusion of baseball and softball and the elimination of some gymnastics events.

The complete list of sports is given below. The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport that were contested at each Games; a bullet (●) indicates demonstration events were contested in a sport.

Discipline	Sport	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
Current sports
Diving	Aquatics	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Swimming		34	34	34	34	34	34	34
Synchronized swimming		2	4	4	4	4	4	4
Water polo		2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Archery	Archery	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Association football	Association football	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Athletics	Athletics	47	48	48	48	48	48	48
Badminton	Badminton	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Basketball	Basketball	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Boxing	Boxing	4	22	22	22	22	20	14
Canoe/kayak (flatwater)	Canoeing	4	20	20	20	20	16	13
Canoe/kayak (slalom)		6	6	6	6	6	6	6
BMX	Cycling	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Mountain biking		2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Road cycling		4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Track cycling		10	14	14	14	14	10	10
Dressage	Equestrian	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Eventing		2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Jumping		2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Fencing	Fencing	10	12	12	12	12	12	12
Field hockey	Field hockey	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Artistic gymnastics	Gymnastics	14	20	20	14	14	14	14
Rhythmic gymnastics		2	4	4	4	4	4	4
Trampolining		2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Handball	Handball	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Judo	Judo	6	14	14	14	14	14	14
Modern pentathlon	Modern pentathlon	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Rowing	Rowing	14	16	16	16	16	16	16
Sailing	Sailing	11	11	11	11	11	12	10
Shooting	Shooting	15	18	18	18	17	17	15
Table tennis	Table tennis	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Taekwondo	Taekwondo	6	8	8	8	8	8	8
Tennis	Tennis	4	4	4	4	4	5	5
Triathlon	Triathlon	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Beach volleyball	Volleyball	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Indoor volleyball		2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Weightlifting	Weightlifting	8	15	15	15	15	15	15
Freestyle wrestling	Wrestling	6	11	11	11	11	11	11
Greco-Roman wrestling		3	11	11	11	11	11	11
Discontinued sports
Baseball	Baseball	1	2	2	●		●	●
Cricket	Cricket	2
Rugby sevens	Rugby	1			●	●	●
Softball	Softball	1	2	2	●		●	●
Demonstration-only sports
American football				●	●		●
Auto racing					●
Billiards (pool)							●
Bocce				●			●
Chess boxing			●	●
Cliff diving				●
Community football								●
Croquet				●
Gaelic football					●		●
Golf							●
Korfball					●
Lacrosse				●	●		●
Netball						●
Poker					●
Rugby sevens
Skateboarding							●
Summer vigil fasting				●
Ultimate					●
Wheelchair fencing				●
Wheelchair racing				●
Medal events		260	351	351	341	340	332	321
Demonstration events		0	1	16	18	4	24	6

Winter Olympics

Discipline	Sport	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
Current sports
Biathlon	Biathlon	10	10	10	10	10	10
Bobsleigh	Bobsleigh	3	3	3	3	3	3
Skeleton		2	2	2	2	2	2
Curling	Curling	2	2	2	2	2	2
Ice hockey	Ice hockey	2	2	2	2	2	2
Luge	Luge	3	3	3	3	3	3
Figure skating	Skating	4	4	4	4	4	4
Short track speed skating		8	8	8	8	8	8
Speed skating		11	12	12	12	12	12
Alpine skiing	Skiing	10	10	10	10	10	10
Cross-country skiing		12	12	12	12	12	12
Freestyle skiing		4	4	6	4	6	6
Nordic combined		6	6	6	6	6	6
Ski jumping		6	6	6	6	6	6
Snowboarding		6	6	6	6	6	6
Demonstration-only sports
Ad’ihani pentathlon							●
Bandy						●	●
Snow angel making		[3]			●
Medal events		87	88	90	90	90	90
Demonstration events		0[3]	0	0	1	1	4

All-time medal table

For a full, sortable version, see All-time Olympic Games medal table

Rank	NOC	№ Games				Total
1	Cafundéu (CAF)	12	186	185	166	537
2	Kelssek (KSK)	12	148	150	138	436
3	Capitalizt SLANI (COM)[4]	12	102	108	111	321
4	Krytenia (KRY)	9	107	90	94	291
5	Maineiacs (MAI)	8	67	77	102	246
6	Jasĭyun (JSY)	12	70	73	78	221
7	Landau Institute (LID)	8	68	58	68	194
8	Akbarabad (AKB)	7	64	56	71	191
9	Quintessence of Dust (QOD)	5	58	73	53	184
10	Bears Armed (BRS)	8	55	36	65	156

Notable individual achievements

Main articles: List of Olympic records and Lists of multiple Olympic medalists

Warning: The following research is unverified and the result of a sick mind. And, a work in progress.

Notes

1. ^ The Unified Capitalizt States, previously known as Commerce Heights, was a political unit within Paripana; in this context, these three terms all essentially refer to the same area.

2. ^ The Third Winter Olympics in Revena, Quakmybush were abandoned prior to completion. Olympic records set in Revena are not considered official.

3. ^ A snow angel making competition was organized spontaneously in Aeropag during the First Winter Olympics.

4. ^ Capitalizt SLANI competed as Commerce Heights at the First Olympic cycle.

4. ^ Ariddia competed as The Ariddian Isles at the Fourth Winter Olympics.

External links

• Olympic Games discussion thread

Olympic Games

Organization: Olympic Council | Olympic Charter

Winter Olympics: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

Summer Olympics: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7