AP Summer and Winter Olympic Metadata
About AP Olympic Content
The AP’s comprehensive coverage of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games starts with Olympic trials and includes feature stories, athlete profiles, updates and observations from the streets and Olympic venues of the hosting country, running coverage of tournaments and competitions and a variety of sports agate such as event results and medal counts.
The AP has a collection of Olympics-related metadata tags that are applied to Olympics-related content in all media types, including text, photos, graphics, video, audio and interactives. These tags can help you find, organize and publish content pertaining to the Winter or Summer Olympics for a specific year.
The tags include:
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An event term for content about a specific Olympic games year
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Generic Olympic event terms that are applied to content on all Olympics, not just one particular year’s Olympics
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Winter Olympic sports terms for content about those sports
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Summer Olympic sports terms for content about those sports
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Organization tag for content about the International Olympic Committee
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High-profile participating athletes
The following sections provide a list of these Olympic metadata terms and the corresponding IDs. For information about using metadata to search for Olympic content in AP Media API, see Searching for Olympic Content.
Specific Year Olympics Event Terms
The tags include terms for all past and upcoming Olympic games, for example:
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Value
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ID (GUID)
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2024 Paris Olympic Games
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eee029bfb7b94f50856e612c88469fa8
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2022 Beijing Olympic Games
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d365e2d8988f4a8ba3a35185c2004a00
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2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
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3ee3daef5f474988b2c1332a1096165f
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Generic Olympic Event Terms
These terms apply to content about all Olympics, not just this year’s Olympics:
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Value
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ID (GUID)
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Olympic Games
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8bb462c0743643d28db2d412ab50d503
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Winter Olympic Games
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ca4e9a2d1ca343d9b4c6360ccf5f9c0b
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Summer Olympic Games
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c9e6ad116afa4737a6da28effd338db3
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Paralympic Games
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90daa51c5353476a9953e197ab29f017
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Summer Paralympic Games
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ac0d61ddc54d4abf8412fc7f04467824
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Winter Paralympic Games
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a793618c076b441bac0662e59e09d918
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Winter Olympic Sports
These terms apply to all content about these sports, not just Winter Games content. To find content that is limited to the Olympics, you can combine the sport term with one of the specific Olympic event terms in your search. For more information, see Searching for Olympic Content.
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Value
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ID (GUID)
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Alpine skiing
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20ded9d87e4e1004890ad0913b2d075c
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Biathlon
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20d82ae87e4e100488a1d0913b2d075c
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Bobsledding
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20d82ae87e4e100488a3d0913b2d075c
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Cross country skiing
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20ded9d87e4e1004890bd0913b2d075c
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Curling
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20d9d4b07e4e100488a9d0913b2d075c
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Figure skating
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20de9b587e4e10048908d0913b2d075c
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Freestyle skiing
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20ded9d87e4e1004890cd0913b2d075c
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Hockey
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20da8c487e4e100488b4d0913b2d075c
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Luge
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20dacac87e4e100488b9d0913b2d075c
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Nordic combined
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20ded9d87e4e1004890dd0913b2d075c
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Short track speed skating
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20ded9d87e4e10048908d0913b2d075c
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Skeleton
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20dd6aa87e4e100488e9d0913b2d075c
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Ski jumping
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20ded9d87e4e1004890ed0913b2d075c
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Snowboarding
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20ded9d87e4e1004890fd0913b2d075c
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Speed skating
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20ded9d87e4e10048909d0913b2d075c
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Summer Olympic Sports
These terms apply to all content about these sports, not just Summer Games content. To find content that is limited to the Olympics, you can combine the sport term with one of the specific Olympic event terms in your search. For more information, see Searching for Olympic Content.
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Value
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ID (GUID)
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Archery
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20d738b87e4e1004889dd0913b2d075c
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Artistic swimming
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20dcf1907e4e100488dcd0913b2d075c
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Badminton
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20d7ec687e4e100488a0d0913b2d075c
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Basketball
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1dc78fe87f15100488fbdf092526b43e
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3x3 basketball
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dbd513bc13d0479aa552d164e2fefdce
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Beach volleyball
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20df14707e4e10048911d0913b2d075c
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Breakdancing
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6abf84fd55914dd9a2e3d8a439d1b833
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Boxing
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20d82ae87e4e100488a5d0913b2d075c
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Canoeing and kayaking
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20d869687e4e100488a6d0913b2d075c
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Cycling
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20d9d4b07e4e100488aad0913b2d075c
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Diving
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20dcf1907e4e100488dad0913b2d075c
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Equestrian
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20da13307e4e100488add0913b2d075c
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Fencing
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20da13307e4e100488afd0913b2d075c
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Field hockey
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20da51b07e4e100488afd0913b2d075c
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Golf
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20da51b07e4e100488b1d0913b2d075c
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Gymnastics
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20da8c487e4e100488b1d0913b2d075c
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Rhythmic gymnastics
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20de22407e4e100488f8d0913b2d075c
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Trampoline
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20de22407e4e100488f9d0913b2d075c
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Handball
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20da8c487e4e100488b2d0913b2d075c
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Judo
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20da8c487e4e100488b6d0913b2d075c
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Modern pentathlon
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20db09487e4e100488bed0913b2d075c
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Rowing
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20db82607e4e100488c3d0913b2d075c
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Rugby
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20db82607e4e100488c4d0913b2d075c
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Sailing
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20db82607e4e100488c5d0913b2d075c
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Shooting sports
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20db82607e4e100488c6d0913b2d075c
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Skateboarding
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efa1aa571f4b41e8bc8b731a858566ad
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Sport climbing
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099f6ae81ed64c4cb53c6da38c2d61c2
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Surfing
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229073b4e22747cfa6b369fe9035820c
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Swimming
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20dcf1907e4e100488dbd0913b2d075c
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Table tennis
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20db43e07e4e100488bfd0913b2d075c
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Taekwondo
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20dc39f87e4e100488d3d0913b2d075c
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Tennis
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20dc74907e4e100488d4d0913b2d075c
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Track and field
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20dc74907e4e100488d5d0913b2d075c
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Triathlon
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20dc74907e4e100488d6d0913b2d075c
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Volleyball
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04e1bd588c871004813ba07ca041d23e
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Water polo
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20dcf1907e4e100488ddd0913b2d075c
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Weightlifting
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20dcb3107e4e100488d8d0913b2d075c
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Wrestling
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20dcb3107e4e100488dad0913b2d075c
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Olympic Athletes
The AP provides tags for top Olympic athletes. The tags are applied based on at least one mention of the athlete’s full name.
Whenever athletes are identified in the content, the AP includes some additional information, which lets you identify and group them as sports figures: the Person Types of SPORTS_FIGURE and PROFESSIONAL_ATHLETE. For more information, see Person Type.
Governing Body
Sports governing organization terms such as International Olympic Committee are part of AP Organization metadata.
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Value
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ID (GUID)
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International Olympic Committee
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08b3c3c08df1100485edfbb89cd06803
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