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(Encyclopedia) Olympus, Mount: see Cyprus; Olympic Mts., Wash.; Olympus, Greece. ...

(Encyclopedia) Blatter, Sepp (Joseph S. Blatter), 1936–, Swiss sports executive, grad. Univ. of Lausanne, 1959. He served as general secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation and director of sports timing and p...

(Encyclopedia) Ithaca, Greece: see Itháki.

(Encyclopedia) Hydra, Greece: see Ídhra.

(Encyclopedia) Achelous: see Akhelóos, river, Greece. ...

(Encyclopedia) Síros, city, Greece: see Ermoupolis. ...

(Encyclopedia) Scherbo, Vitaly, 1972–, Belarussian gymnast. Often considered to be the best male gymnast of all time, he had won at least one world title on each apparatus by the time he retired in 1997. He won hi...

(Encyclopedia) boxing, sport of fighting with fists, also called pugilism and prizefighting. Amateur boxing, while not free from debate, has in recent decades taken steps to ensure safety and objective judging. Th...

(Encyclopedia) Aegina or Aíyina āˈyēnä [key], island, 32 sq mi (83 sq km), off SE Greece, in the Saronic Gulf (or Gulf of Aegina), near Athens. Sponge fishing and farming (fi...

(Encyclopedia)  Sites of the Modern Olympic Games Summer Games Winter Games ...