Olympic Games (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)

The Olympic Games are a major international sporting event featuring both summer and winter events, with thousands of competitors taking part. The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games. Since 2008, host cities are contracted to manage both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games, where athletes who have a physical disability compete. The organization is headed by the International Olympic Committee, which was founded in 1890 after the first games held in Athens, Greece to become the governing body of the Olympic movement, originally lead by French philanthropist Pierre de Coubertin.

The Olympic Movement has resulted in bringing the nations of the world closer together through competitive sports, and has become a major televised event around the world. The Olympics, however, have also been in the center of political events, including the cancellation of the games in 1912, 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the world wars, and the 1952, 1956, 1984 and 1988 events being boycotted due to the tensions of the Cold War.

1928: Winnipeg, Assiniboia
In a surprising move, the 1928 Summer games were awarded to the city of Winnipeg,, in 1921. Although the city was one of the largest in North America at the time (and still is), the belief that the games would be failure hung over the planning stages. Overcoming enormous obstacles, setbacks, cost overruns and delays, the games were a major success nevertheless. The games showed off the city of Winnipeg and the nation of Assiniboia to the world, opening it arms for over 7500 competitors from 49 nations, as well as being one of the first to have events publicized on radio and filmed for newsreels. The most well known event was an unknown Assiniboian athlete, Jacques Felin, who surged past the favored competitors in both the 100 and 200 meter events, winning gold in both (and was, however, the nations only two gold medals in the games). The Winnipeg Olympics was also noticeable for the first time that the Olympic flame was lit, though no relay was run. However, the flame was unable to be lit in Greece and then transported to Winnipeg, as was the original plan, so a staged "Greek spectacle" was organized. This was, and remains, the only time that the Olympic flame was not lit in Greece and delivered to the host city.

1932: Warsaw, Poland
Despite the Stock Market Crashes on 1931, the Warsaw Games were to continue on, with bother IOC and the Polish Government agreeing. Having been awarded the games in 1925, Poland had set out to surpass the Winnipeg Games held in 1928, and the Paris Games the Olympiad before that.. Cost overruns, corruption and the Depression all took its toll on the planning and building for the games, and despite grandiose ideas, the games barely managed to pull together in time for the games to begin. And, when one of the Athlete's residences collapsed due to the shoddy construction work, and the front facade of the stadium cracked after a rain storm, the death knell of the games was sounded, and Poland was utterly humiliated by the outcome, and Poland would never again be considered for another game, even seventy years later. France was, as since the Olympic's founding, the overall medal count winner, with 25 Gold, 39 silver and 12 Bronze medals.

2008: Winnipeg, Assiniboia
80 years after it was first held in Winnipeg, the Summer Olympics returned to Assiniboia. However, as much of a repeat as the 1928 games, the choice of Winnipeg was a shock, as the two other contenders, Dublin,, and Baghdad, , were considered the stronger nominees. However, President Stephen Harper promised that the games would "find its place here in Assiniboia", and he was true to his word. The games were a stunner, with a new stadium and faculties, although some of the older venues from the 1928 games were updated to modern standards and used, most notably the rowing facilities on the Red and Assiniboine River's. The games themselves were a success, but not as successful as the 2004 games in Lyons before, and the Winnipeg Games would always have to be shadowed by its predecessor. Many records were set, including that of the "World's Fastest Man," Zauli Budaual of. The most medals went to, With and the US following closely behind. Assiniboia, however, achieved a personal best, winning 10 gold, 13 silver and 5 bronze, a record for the nation in the Summer Games.

List of Winter Olympic Games
The first Winter Olympic Games were held in 1922, when Russia, the winner of the 1924 Summer Games, proposed in 1919 that an international event showcasing winter sports be started. The International Olympic Committee agrees for a "test", but the overwhelming support for the games convinces the IOC to make the Winter Games a separate event, taking place in between the summer games.