Let's get this out of the way first. This is not a sign-up thread. If you wish to participate in the Olympic Games please wait for when they're actually taking place; watching this thread would help give you clues to when that will be. There is no point in filling this thread with "(nation) joins the Olympic Council" type posts. To give you an idea of what it's all about, particularly if sports RP is something you're new to, check out the RP thread and the results from the 4th Summer Olympics.
Also, please do not bid to host unless you know what you are doing. Hosting the Olympics is a tremendously big and time-consuming undertaking, and is much more than posting photos of stadiums and coming up with a spiel about one of your cities. When I did it I spent literally weeks processing the signups and loading them into the scorinator, in addition to at least 2 hours per day to generate the results. And that's for the Winter Olympics, which has less than a third of the events that the Summer Olympics does. In any case, it is very doubtful you would be accepted as the host if the participants didn't have confidence you could actually carry through with it.
Now, with that cautionary note out of the way, let's get on with it. This thread is intended for the discussion of stuff pertaining to the Nationstates Olympic Games. Let us proceed.
Olympic Games article on NSSWiki
OLYMPIC COUNCIL
Announcements thread (has links to all previous Olympics threads)
Olympic Charter
PAST GAMES
For links to the threads of past Games, please see the Olympic Council thread.
The last completed Games were the 15th Summer Olympics in August 2021.
SPORT FILES
As real-life scoring systems and rules evolve with time, in many cases the default xkoranate files have become inaccurate. Updated files used in the Olympics and related events will appear here.
Draw shot challenge (curling tiebreaker) - by Kelssek, used in 14th Winter Olympics
Snowboarding - women's parallel slalom qualification - by Kelssek, used in 14th Winter Olympics
Snowboarding - men's parallel slalom qualification - by Kelssek, used in 14th Winter Olympics
Multiple sports - by Liventia used in 16th Winter Olympics.