the Olympics 后面用单数还是复数

Olympics
[pl.](=Olympic Games)奥林匹克运动会

是复数,后面有复数谓语

The Olympics 是口语中 the Olympic Games的简称，为复数名词，后面动词也用复数。

单数

Olympics is home

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Home, sweet home.

After 108 years away from its ancient birthplace and the city of its revival, the Olympic Games is home.

When the Athens Olympics lifted its curtain Friday night, a success seemed to be in the making just as the organizers promised as all the unpleasant memories of long debates and construction delays faded out in the spectacular opening ceremony.

None of the previous Olympics hosts could boast of staging the Olympics "in the true spirit of the Games", the theme in Athens, which plays home to 10,500 athletes from a record 202 countries and regions.

Nor could a single host city make the athletes feel so close tothe Olympiad as Athens, which is to stage the shot-put event in the Ancient Olympia stadium, where the first