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Olympics

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Sports

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Fixed some issues

1. OLY ≠ Olympian. An Olympian means an athlete who participated or is participating at an Olympic Games. An Olympian does not automatically become an OLY, he/she/they has to apply on WOA's website. Also it's worth to mention, an OLY bears more responsibility than an Olympian.

2. OLY is not pronounced as the word "Olympian", according to official video by WOA here, it is pronounced "OH-EL-WHY". --阿pp (talk) 13:15, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Should these post nominal letters be added to every Olympian's article?

Seems like something that should be done 87.242.223.122 (talk) 15:32, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

no, see the previous section that says not every Olympian gets the nominal letters Torzsmokus (talk) 15:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]