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The Olympics will be here before you know it, so make sure you know AP Olympics style. Here are some tips from AP:
- Olympics or Olympic Games: Always capitalized. There are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics, or Summer Games and Winter Games.
- Olympics: Noun. Always capitalized.
- Olympiad: A period of four years beginning on Jan. 1 of the Olympic year. Olympiads are numbered consecutively in Roman numerals from the 1896 Athens Games. The XXX Olympiad that includes the London Games began Jan. 1, 2012.
- Olympian: Any athlete who has been to the Olympics.
- London Games, London Olympics: Capitalized. Also, 2012 Olympics or 2012 Games. London Summer Olympics and London Summer Games.
- Games: Capitalized when attached to the host city or year: the London Games and the 2012 Games. In general use, lowercase.
- IOC, short for the International Olympic Committee, is OK on first reference. But use full title in the story.
- AP uses championship for a single event, like a basketball tournament, plural for multiple events such as track championships.
- It's Horse Guards Parade, no apostrophe.
- London is the first city to host the Summer Olympics for a third time. Previous games were 1908 and 1948.
- Olympic rings have five interlocking rings representing five continents. The colors are blue, yellow, black, green and red.
- The year precedes the host city and Olympics. We're months away from the 2012 Olympics or the 2012 London Games.
