Summer Games
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The Summer Games are close - there were 44.7% female athletes in Paris two years ago - but just 26.1% of the competitors in Milan-Cortina are women.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
The last Olympiad was the 2024 Summer Games in Rome.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026
The outspokenness of the Winter Olympic athletes echoes a dramatic protest by Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos which electrified the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Most famously, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were expelled from the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games for raising their black-gloved fists in protest of racial injustice, though they retained their medals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
One day soon after the 2012 London Summer Games had actually transpired, I was out shopping with my friend Habiba in a department store at the shopping mall.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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