Leap year - and Olympic Games.... Always the same year.
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iviehoff
Leap year - and Olympic Games.... Always the same year.
Summer Games, you refer, but not always then. There was an Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, which was not a leap year. The Games in Athens in 1906 were considered Olympic Games at the time, though in hindsight they aren't any more as there have been no further summer Games off the 4-year pattern, and they are now called the Intercalated Games. I expect there will be Olympic Games in 2100, which will not be a leap year.
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battybilly
Yeah - yeah, I'm talking about The Olympic Games - and now, not over 100 years ago/or in 100 years time.
The skiing/skating etc. ones, I thought were called The Winter Olympics - and not also The Olympic Games.
And just to re-phrase it further for the perfectionists amongst us.... Olympic Games held in either every leap/common year.
Is that better?
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