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Olympic can mean:

  • Olympic Games, an international multi-sport event:
  • Olympic (band), a Czech rock band
  • Olympic (MTR) A MTR station in Hong Kong
  • Olympic Airlines, state run airline for Greece and successor to Olympic Airways
  • Olympic Aviation, subsidiary of Greek flag-carrier Olympic Airways
  • Olympic Peninsula (United States), the large arm of land in western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle
  • Olympic Mountains (United States), a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula
  • Olympic National Park (United States), located on the Olympic Peninsula
  • 'Olympic Paints & Stains', a brand belonging to PPG Industries
  • RMS Olympic, sister ship of the RMS Titanic
  • Al-Olympi, Olympic Football Club, Egypt

The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... Ruins of the training grounds at Olympia The Ancient Olympic Games were an athletic and religious celebration held in the Greek town of Olympia from (historically) as early as 776 BC to 393 AD. There were 292 Ancient Olympic Games. ... Photograph of Olympic station Olympic (Traditional Chinese:奧運; Jyutping: ou3 wan6; pinyin: ào yùn) is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Tung Chung Line. ... Olympic Airlines (Ολυμπιακές Αερογραμμές - OA) is the state-run flag carrier of Greece, employing about 1850 people. ... Olympic Aviation was a subsidiary of Olympic Airways, the Greek national flag carrier. ... The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. ... The Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. ... Olympic National Park is located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the far northwestern part of the state known as the Olympic Peninsula. ... PPG Industries NYSE: PPG was founded in 1883, under the name Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. ... Built for the White Star Line Company, RMS Olympic (or SS Olympic) was the first of her class, which included the ill-fated Titanic and Britannic. ...

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