Edited to add a clarifying note about this thread In 2024 I became curious about what kinds of observations would be made in Paris during the summer Olympics. I created a project and “reported” the “events”. Watching what observations come in during the Olympics in the Olympic region is a fun way t…

What a fabulous idea! I’ll not be taking part as watching the Olympics and winter sports in general bring me out in an allergic skin rash :roll_eyes:, but I’ll be fascinated to see the results.

Apperently my english skills aren’t enough to interpret what you are saying. Do you want someone participating in something or are you trying to inform us that Italy needs more attention during the olympics? All I understand is that you will need some identifiers looking at italy but I am not sure…

I wasn’t around during previous Olympic Games–this sounds like fun! How does it work?

If you see a wild organism at the Olympics while watching it on TV, you can count it. If you’re there at the Olympics your observation opportunities will likely be better.

Humour does not translate easily. This is just for fun. (My sister likes to watch cycle races on TV - not for the cycling but for the scenery) So - ignore the Olympics as such … what is that bug on her shoulder ?? etc. I don’t watch so I am out ;~)

Yeah! There was so much ‘reading between the lines’ in that short paragraph, it could’ve meant so many different things to me :D I have one more confusion left, though. How would one report an olympics-animal seen on TV :thinking: As far as I understood the guidelines (or rules?), those observation…

[image] IDfanatic: How would one report an olympics-animal seen on TV :thinking: As far as I understood the guidelines (or rules?), those observations would only be valid if you were there observing in person, right? Correct, please don’t post images from TV.

So do you just post a casual obs without a photo? Obviously location would be very general and time would be inexact. Is there a special project set up for this?

I suspect this is similar to the Paris Olympics thread and is more about seeing which observations are being made in the area of the Olympics during the Olympics. But I don’t see much context or specifics in the original post, so I can’t say for sure. To be clear, this isn’t an official iNat thing. …

iNat at the Olympics (Winter 2026)

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jonathananas February 4, 2026, 3:44pm 6

Thanks for the sports-journalist-style post! It was fun to read.

Is there a specific project that compiles all Olympic observations?

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