Olympic Games

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Bonjour le monde!
http://www.bonjourlemonde.ca/

A portal for all Francophones and Francophiles who wish to help make a success of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Canadian Olympians 
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/olympiens/index-f.html

The Canadian Olympians site provides a searchable images database of Canadian athletes at the Olympics, from the early 1900s through 2004. The database currently holds more than 10 000 images.

Canadian Olympic Committee
http://www.olympic.ca/FR/index.shtml

The Canadian Olympic Committee is a national, private, not-for-profit organization committed to sport excellence. It is responsible for all aspects of Canada's involvement in the Olympic movement, including Canada's participation in the Olympic and Pan American Games and a wide variety of programs that promote the Olympic Movement in Canada through cultural and educational means.

La Chine Olympique : la médaille et son revers
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2007/08/31/006-chine-accueil.shtml

Feature on the Web site of Radio-Canada.

Dicolympic
http://www.dicolympic.com/

Olympic Games dictionary with more than 2000 entries.

Learn Foreign Languages with Fuwa
http://en.beijing2008.cn/languagecorner/

This feature on the official Web site of the Beijing 2008 Olympics is a tool for users of the official website to acquire basic conversation skills in Putonghua, English, and French.

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
http://fr.beijing2008.cn/index.shtml

The Official website of the Olympic Movement 
http://www.olympic.org/fr/index_fr.asp

This Web site offers various features on the Olympic movement, its history in antiquity and in modern times, on each of the Olympic disciplines, on athletes. Various educational kits and fact sheets are also available for download.

Olympic and Paralympic Summer Sport Glossary
http://www.lexique-jo.org/beijin/

Trilingual glossary of expressions related to each sport event in the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (French-English-Chinese).

Olympic and Paralympic Winter Sports Official Lexicon
http://www.lexique-jo.org/turin/

Trilingual lexicon of terms related to each sport event in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games (French-English-Italian).

Pékin 2008
http://www.radio-canada.ca/sports/Jeux-Olympiques/

Radio-Canada’s Sport web page containing up-to-date information regarding the 2008 Peking Olympic Games.

Programme scolaire olympique canadien
http://www.olympicschool.ca/Default.aspx?PageID=1000&LangID=fr

The Canadian Olympic School Program presented by RBC has engaged students in the Olympic Movement since 1988. Be inspired through Olympian stories, activities, projects, interviews, videos and contests.

Vancouver 2010

Official Web site of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.