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Encyclopedia > Olimpo de Bahía Blanca

Olimpo is an argentine sports club located in the city of Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province. Founded in 1918, its main sporting activities trhough the 20th century were basketball and football. A club (in Greek usually: Mupia, in Latin sodalitas) consists of an association of people not united together by any natural ties of kinship, real or supposed. ... Bah a Blanca is a city in eastern Argentina in Buenos Aires Province and a seaport at the head of the Bah Blanca (White Bay - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). ... Map of Argentina highlighting the province Buenos Aires province (BWAY-nos EYE-res, Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the largest and most populated province of Argentina. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... This article deals with the history and development of the different sports around the world known as football. For links to articles on each of those sports, please see the list in the Football today section of this article. ...


Being from Bahia Blanca, Argentina´s basketball capital, most of Olimpo´s associates and energies were orientated to that sport. However, by the late 1990s, Olimpo football team became increasingly important as it ascended along the national football categories, finally introducing itself in first division. Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Primera División (first division) is the top category of Argentine football (soccer), and its organized by the Argentine Football Association. ...


olimpo had once on its basketball lineup today NBA star Emanuel Ginóbili. The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... Spurs #20: Manu Ginobili Emanuel David Manu Ginobili (born July 28, 1977 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina) is an Argentine basketball player. ...

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