They don’t make them like they used to – Olympic bodies through the ages. Also see which Olympic body type you’re closest to.
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If all of the Olympics were reduced to just this one photo of Oscar Pistorius running with 5-year-old Ellie May Challis, by photographed by Andy Hooper, it would still be a feat of mankind.
A tragedy of priorities: The most appalling infographic you’ll see today compares the cost of the Olympics vs. the cost of landing Curiosity on Mars. And yet, the future of space exploration is more precarious than ever.
Steve Heller on the history of design winners and losers in Olympic pictograms.
London’s dapper 1908 Olympics
The Olympic Park recreated in LEGO by brickmeister Warren Elsmore.
Wars break out because nations misunderstand each other. We shall not have peace until the prejudices which now separate the different races shall have been outlived. To attain this end, what better means than to bring the youth of all countries periodically together for amicable trials of muscular strength and agility? The Olympic games, with the ancients, controlled athletics and promoted peace. It is not visionary to look to them for similar benefactions in the future.
In 1896, French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin reinstated the Ancient Greek Olympic Games as an antidote to war
