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The Summer Olympic Games
Further reading
The next Summer Olympic Games will be held in London in July and August 2012. They will be followed by the Paralympics in August and September.
The official website has details of venues, news and latest projects for the games.
TVNZ Coverage
TVNZ had a dedicated Olympics section of its website with news of individual athletes and sports, with video, as well as a history of New Zealand’s Olympic teams.
Search our catalogue
- Olympics — general search
- Olympic Games — for a specific year’s games
Websites
- The New Zealand Olympics Team
- The official New Zealand Olympic guide from the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- The Olympics
- See our internet gateway pages for more Olympics sites
Organisations
100 years of New Zealand Olympians
2008 marked 100 years of New Zealand participation in the Olympic Games. In 1908 (London) and 1912 (Stockholm) New Zealand teams competed with Australian teams under an Australasian banner. In 1912 Malcolm Champion became New Zealand’s first gold medallist as part of a world record swim in the 4 x 200-metre freestyle relay. Christchurch’s Anthony Wilding won a bronze medal at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
History
- The Ancient Olympic Games
- By the Perseus Project at Tufts University
- Ancient Olympics: The Real Story
- Online exhibit from the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- The Olympic Museum
- Online gallery
- Olympics at Infoplease
- Olympics through Time
- From the organisation The Foundation of the Hellenic World
