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• Olympic-sized swimming pool —     ... and in fitting movie star fashion, the grounds include an Olympic sized swimming pool (Mail on Sunday). An official Olympics swimming pool is fifty meters long. Virtually no private person, even in Hollywood, owns a pool that large. The… …   Dictionary of troublesome word

• Olympic-size swimming pool — Olympic swimming pool and starting blocks used for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia An Olympic size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is 50 meters in length. This is… …   Wikipedia

• An Olympic-Sized Scandal — ▪ 2000       In 1999 it appeared that the Olympic Games might take the gold for the century s widest reaching and most notorious sports scandal. Years in advance of each Olympic Games, members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elect a… …   Universalium

• Olympic-size — /euh lim pik suyz , oh lim /, adj. 1. of the dimensions or length prescribed for the Olympic Games and other major athletic competitions: an Olympic size speed skating oval. 2. (of a swimming pool) having a length of 55 yds. (50 m) and a width of …   Universalium

• Olympic-size — /euh lim pik suyz , oh lim /, adj. 1. of the dimensions or length prescribed for the Olympic Games and other major athletic competitions: an Olympic size speed skating oval. 2. (of a swimming pool) having a length of 55 yds. (50 m) and a width of …   Useful english dictionary

• Olympic Park Stadium — Olympic Park, The Graveyard Location Olympic Bvd, Melbourne, Victoria …   Wikipedia

• Olympic Oval — Location 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta Broke ground 1985 Opened September, 1987 …   Wikipedia

• List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the United Kingdom — Locations of Olympic standard pools in the UK List of Olympic size swimming pools in the United Kingdom is an annotated list of swimming pools in the United Kingdom which conform to the Olympic standard. Additionally, it lists other long course… …   Wikipedia

• Father David Bauer Olympic Arena — The Father David Bauer Olympic Arena is an ice hockey arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It seats about 1,750 for hockey with a standing room capacity of over 2,000. It is named after Father David Bauer, a Hockey Hall of Famer and hockey pioneer …   Wikipedia

• Richmond Olympic Oval — The Richmond Olympic Oval, or the Richmond Oval is a facility currently under construction in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It will be the venue of the speed skating events of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The cost of the project is currently… …   Wikipedia