# The Olympics

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Category: Sports
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:27.145Z
Tags: sports, olympics

## Summary

The Olympics are the only event in human civic life that brings together every nation on the planet on a fixed schedule for two weeks. The 2024 Paris Games included athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees plus the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. No United Nations summit, no World Bank meeting, no global cultural festival approaches that scope. Key sections include: The Olym pic s.; Opening The four-year theatre.; Chapter I Olympia, 776 BCE.; Chapter II The first modern games.; Chapter III The chaotic second.; Chapter IV The post-war reset.; Chapter V Jesse Owens.; Chapter VI The London austerity games.; Chapter VII The Soviet entry.; Chapter VIII The Black Power salute..

## Slide Outline

1. The Olym pic s.
2. Opening The four-year theatre.
3. Chapter I Olympia, 776 BCE.
4. Chapter II The first modern games.
5. Chapter III The chaotic second.
6. Chapter IV The post-war reset.
7. Chapter V Jesse Owens.
8. Chapter VI The London austerity games.
9. Chapter VII The Soviet entry.
10. Chapter VIII The Black Power salute.
11. Chapter IX The massacre.
12. Chapter X The financial cautionary tale.
13. Chapter XI 1980 Moscow, 1984 LA.
14. Chapter XII Ben Johnson and the doping era.
15. Chapter XIII Dream Team and the post-Cold War games.
16. Chapter XIV The centennial.
17. Chapter XV The best-organised modern Games.
18. Chapter XVI The home-coming Games.
19. Chapter XVII The state-power demonstration.
20. Chapter XVIII The legacy games.
21. Chapter XIX Russian doping, exposed.
22. Chapter XX The South American debut.
23. Chapter XXI The pandemic Games.
24. Chapter XXII The Seine opening.
25. Chapter XXIII The next host.
26. Chapter XXIV The smaller Olympics.
27. Chapter XXV The parallel movement.
28. Chapter XXVI The chemical history.
29. Chapter XXVII The host-city trap.
30. Chapter XXVIII Twenty-five works.
31. Chapter XXIX Watch & read.
32. The end of the deck.

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