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WordBank: 30 words: Ambiguous, Celebration, Colleague, Commitment, Competitors, Controversy, Dedication, Defeated, Determination, Disagreement, Discipline, Endurance, Exact, Extravaganza, Exuberance, Gold Metal, Harmony, Inspire, Irritate, Morose, Motivate, Opponent, Pageantry, Perseverance, Persistence, Precise, Privacy, Spectacle, Triumphant, Victorious

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Alphalary for Olympics (Wordlist)
A) A: active, Activation, Aerobics, Agent, Aggressive, Alternate, Announcement, Assist, Assistance, Attendance, Attraction, Averages
B) B: balance, Ball, Basketball, Beauty, Berth, Bicycle, Bid, Blood, Blood pressure, Body, Bones, Bounce, Boxing, Breath, Breathe, Bronze medal, Butterfly stroke, Buzzer
C) C: captivate, Cardio, Champion, Championship, Charisma, Charm, Coach, Collapse, Competition, Conditioning, Conference, Contract, Conversion, Convert, Coordination, Courage, Curfew, Curling, Cycle, Cycling
D) D: defense, Defensive, Diet, Disease, Distraction, Division, Doctor, Downhill, Dribble, Drive, Drugs, Dumbbells
E) E: elevation, Endurance, Energy, Error(s)exercise, Exalt, Exaltation, Exemplary, Exemption
F) F: finalist, Firepower, Fit, Flex, Force(s), Foul, Fragrances, Framework, Free throw, Fumble, Function
G) G: games, Goal, Gold medal, Grip, Gymnasium
H) H: halftime, Hammer, Handlebar, Health, Healthy, Herbs, Hit, Homerun, Hoops, Hygiene, Hygienic
I) I: ice-skating, Imagination, Individual, Infection, Injunction, Injury, Insulation, Interception, Interpretation
J) J: jargon, Judge, Judo, Jump, Jump rope, Jumping jack
K) K: kickoff, Kinetics
L) L: leader, League, Legend, Losing, Loss, Lucky, Lumbar
M) M: magic, Manager, Margin, Massage, Masseur, Mat, Maximize, Measure, Medal, Medication, Memory, Metabolic, Minimize, Miss, Moisture, Moisturize, Monitor, Motivate, Motivation, Muscles
N) N: nemesis, Nervousness, Nurse
O) O: offensive, Official, Opportunity, Opt, Optimism, Option, Outbreak
P) P: panic, Paraffin, Pass, Pedal, Penalties, Percentage, Performance, Perspiration, Pessimism, Petrify, Physiotherapy, Pitcher, Player(s), Points, Poll, Position(ing), Possession, Potent, Power, Power play, Practice, Prevention, Professional, Program, Promising, Protect, Protection, Pulley, Puncture, Punt
Q) Q: quads, Quarterback, Quick, Quintessential, Quiver
R) R: rank(ing), Rebound, Recognition, Record, Recovery, Recruit, Regulation(s), Rehabilitation, Relax, Reserve, Resilient, Resistance, Risk, Role, Row, Run(ning), Rush(ing)
S) S: sanitary, Saves, Scare, Scenario, Scent, Scheme, Score(s), Scoreboard, Scoring, Season, Sedentary, Sensible, Shape up, Shot, Shut-out, Silver medal, Size, Skating, Skiing, Slide, Soccer, Speculation, Spin(ning), Spirit, Sport(s), Sportsmanship, Squad, Squat, Stability, Stamina, Standing(s), Statistics, Strategy, Streak, Strength, Stretch(ing), Stride, Strong, Sugar, Superstition, Supine, Support, Supremacy, Suspension, Symptoms
T) T: tackle, Team, Teammate, Technical, Terror, Test(ing), Therapeutic, Therapy, Timeout, Timing, Tone, Torch, Torso, Touchdown, Tournament, Trainer, Training, Transform(ation), Tremors, Trot, Turnover(s)
U) U: unusual, Unbelievable, Unrestricted
V) V: vaccination, Valiant, Valor, Vault, Vibration, Victory, Violation, Votes
W) W: waive, Warm up, Watchful, Weary, Weigh, Weights, Win, Wince, Winless, Winning, Wisdom, Work out
X) X: (e) xcellence
Y) Y: yoga, Yards
Z) Z: zeal, Zealous
Summer Olympic Sports that Americans prefer
Based on a survey of more than 1,000 people age 18+; respondents could choose more than one ---- source: taylorpr.com

Gymnastics = 69%
Swimming/Diving = 62%
Track & Field = 46%
Basketball = 35%
Baseball = 32%