: How true. Most of the sports (all the indoor sports) are non-seasonal, and many of the outdoor sports could be contested in any season other than cold winter conditions. And they are not always conducted in summer. So Wikipedia perpetuates the crap terminology of the idiot sports press, and the moronic pop press, ignoring both reality and official terminology. There is no such thing as the "Summer Games" or "Summer Olympics" so that's what Wikipedia calls them. Yet another in a long (yea, endless) list of why Wikipedia cannot be taken seriously or considered reliable as a source of information. 

 : Today, as the Games of the XXX Olympiad come to a close in London, the bogus "summer" designation is used on the main page. Pathetic, really. The header asks "Why call is summer?" The answer, apparently, is because people are idiots.