AP Summer and Winter Olympic Metadata

 

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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.

AP Olympic Metadata Tags

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:

  • An event term for content about a specific Olympic games year

  • Generic Olympic event terms that are applied to content on all Olympics, not just one particular year’s Olympics

  • Winter Olympic sports terms for content about those sports

  • Summer Olympic sports terms for content about those sports 

  • Organization tag for content about the International Olympic Committee

  • 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:

 

Value

ID (GUID)

2024 Paris Olympic Games

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2022 Beijing Olympic Games

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2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

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Generic Olympic Event Terms

These terms apply to content about all Olympics, not just this year’s Olympics:

 

Value

ID (GUID)

Olympic Games

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Winter Olympic Games

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Summer Olympic Games

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Paralympic Games

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Summer Paralympic Games

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Winter Paralympic Games

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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.

 

Value

ID (GUID)

Alpine skiing

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Biathlon

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Bobsledding

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Cross country skiing

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Curling

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Figure skating

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Freestyle skiing

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Hockey

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Luge

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Nordic combined

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Short track speed skating

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Skeleton

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Ski jumping

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Snowboarding

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Speed skating

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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.

 

Value

ID (GUID)

Archery

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Artistic swimming

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Badminton

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Basketball

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   3x3 basketball

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Beach volleyball

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Breakdancing

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Boxing

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Canoeing and kayaking

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Cycling

20d9d4b07e4e100488aad0913b2d075c

Diving

20dcf1907e4e100488dad0913b2d075c

Equestrian

20da13307e4e100488add0913b2d075c

Fencing

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Field hockey

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Golf

20da51b07e4e100488b1d0913b2d075c

Gymnastics

20da8c487e4e100488b1d0913b2d075c

   Rhythmic gymnastics

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   Trampoline

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Handball

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Judo

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Modern pentathlon

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Rowing

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Rugby

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Sailing

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Shooting sports

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Skateboarding

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Sport climbing

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Surfing

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Swimming

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Table tennis

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Taekwondo

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Tennis

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Track and field

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Triathlon

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Volleyball

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Water polo

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Weightlifting

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Wrestling

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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.

 

Value

ID (GUID)

International Olympic Committee

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