{{Infobox Olympic games| 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| location    = 
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| motto       = 
| nations     = 
| athletes    = 
| events      = 
| opening     = 
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| cauldron    = 
| stadium     = 
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| website     =
| summer_prev = 
| summer_next = 
| winter_prev = 
| winter_next = 
| prev        = 
| next        = 
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{{Infobox Olympic games}} uses three blank parameters at the beginning of the template's syntax, 1, 2, 3. These are used to set the year, season, and games being detailed, in that specific order. For example, in the article for the 1998 Winter Olympics, 1 should be set to "1998", 2 should be set to "Winter", and 3 should be set to "Olympics". In the heading, {{#ifexpr:}} and {{#expr:}} are used to convert the inputs of these two parameters into the official name of the games. For example, if 1, 2, and 3 are set to values representing the 2000 Summer Paralympics, "2000", "Summer", and "Paralympics", it will be converted into "XI Paralympic Games". Four parameters are used in the {{Infobox}} syntax in this template. They are image, which displays an image when a filename is inputted, omitting the "File:" prefix, image_size, an optional template that allows editors to set a custom size for the image, alt, another optional parameter that can be used to implement an explicitly descriptive alt caption that appears when images don't load, and caption, another optional parameter that allows users to set a custom caption for the image. The latter two parameters are mostly discouraged, and are in use only for special circumstances preferably resolved from a consensus on a particular issue. For the modern Olympic logo format used since the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics, a {{#switch:}} template is used to fix image sizes so that the Olympic rings at the bottom of the modern logo design appear at exactly 100px width (See image on right for example). This is enabled using {{Infobox Olympic games/image size}}, which in turn uses {{#ifexpr:}} to check if the 1 parameter is set to a year past 1997. If not, this setup is cancelled out and the default frameless size applies. An optional caption parameter also exists than enables users to write a descriptive caption for an image featured in the image parameter.

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* ''Welcome home''
* ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Καλώς ήλθατε σπίτι, Kalós ílthate spíti)
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The succession links at the bottom of the {{Infobox}} template use an intricate, complex series of parser functions designed to present succession for the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games according to which season is set to the 2 parameter. For example, if the 2 parameter is set to Summer, the succession links for the Summer games will appear above the succession links for the Winter games. If it's set to Winter, the reverse will be true. This is true thanks to an arrangement of {{#if:}} and {{#ifeq:}} parser functions that all check the 2 parameter. Four main parameters exist in this section, summer_prev for the preceding Summer games, summer-next for the succeeding Summer games, winter_prev for the preceding Winter games, and winter_next for the succeeding Winter games. It is highly encouraged that the wikilinks are formatted to present the name of the host city followed by the year. For example, the 1960 Summer Olympics should be presented as "Rome 1960" and the 2014 Winter Olympics should be presented as "Sochi 2014". Two additional parameters, prev and next, also exist to allow for situations in which the four main parameters do not apply, such as the 1906 Intercalated Games.