Gilbert Hanse M.L.A. ’89, will design the golf course that will reintroduce the sport of golf to the Olympics at the 2016 summer games in Rio de Janeiro. The course will be the first built for the Olympics since 1904 — the last time golf was an Olympic event.

Wolff was the oldest living bobsled driver. He died Thursday.

Three Olympic gold medalists — Apolo Anton Ohno, April Holmes and Steve Mesler — shared the inspiration of their success with Cornell students at a panel on Wednesday in the Carrier Ballroom at Statler Hotel.

In 1896, the International Olympic Committee began its revival of the ancient Greek games in Athens, Greece. Since the inception of the modern games, Ivy League athletes have been competing for their countries against people from all over the world. Three Cornellians made the trip to the 1904 Games, which has led to a legacy of over 80 athletes competing for the elusive gold medal.

Brett Hoover, an Ivy League and Olympics enthusiast, worked on compiling a list of all the Ivy undergraduates who had competed in the Olympics since its rebirth, noticing the extensive history of the two organizations.

“No other league can say they had people in the 1904 Olympics, because no one else did. So that’s part of it, that our history starts at the very origins of it,” Hoover explained about the high prevalence of Ivy Olympians.

The Olympics. Probably one of my all-time favorite occurrences, although the spirit of plunking myself down for hours watching just about any sport NBC has decided to cover is decidedly squashed this year, as I do not own a TV. But never fear, the beauty that is the Internet has provided me with video of several different events and articles chock full of information: about clothes.

You probably noticed that I haven’t been writing much lately (who am I kidding? No one noticed). Well, the wait is over, patient followers, as I’m back from assignment after spending the past six days covering the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

With the Winter Olympics starting tomorrow in Vancouver, it is interesting to note that there will be three attendees –– both past and present –– of Cornell competing. Former student athletes, Douglas Murray ’03 and Jamie Moriarty ’03, as well as current undergraduate Rebecca Johnston ’12, will take part in the games this year.

Thanks Oprah. We give you one job — drop by Denmark with the O-Team and use your magic to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. One job! And what happens? We get eliminated in the first goddamn round of voting. Somehow Tokyo beat us out for third place despite the fact that they planned to fund the Games by expanding the scope of their dolphin-hunting industry to encompass all adorable marine life.

The Olympics open in twelve days. You could say that Beijing is putting the final touches on what it hopes will be a masterpiece, a sign of China’s rising power and ascension to an important global position. Yet these preparations have cut widely and deeply into the daily lives of those who live in and around Beijing.

We dropped the ball big time on this one. When the International Olympic Committee gave Beijing the 2008 Olympics, China was well-known for its abysmal human rights record. While the decision was being made, advocates for Beijing said that China would improve itself for the Olympics. They cited the 1988 Seoul Olympics, which was closely tied to South Korea’s process of democratization. Unfortunately, they failed to cite the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where several months before the Games started, Mexico’s authoritarian government brutally repressed student protestors. Democracy has a complicated and often uncorrelated relationship with the Olympics.