the Olympic Games as a singular noun?

 Most examples of “the Olympic Games” used a plural verb, 

 although I did see some examples of singular verbs used, too. 

 We at ESL Library decided to go with “the Olympics” + singular verb 

 and “the Olympic Games” + plural verb. 

 Basically, “the Olympics” is a collective noun like team or United States, 

 and usually takes a singular verb.

How can it be single when it ends in an -s?  There will be more than one game.  It will be the Olympic GameS, so it's plural.

That would be quite acceptable in American English, less so in British English.

In effect, rather than talking about games (specific games, the Olympic games) you are talking about an event named "the Olympic Games".  It is employed as a proper name.

I have never heard of the term the "Olympic game" used at all. There's "the olympicS". But that's still plural. So the answer is NO!

Also the "Olympic gameS" is plural.

I did some Google research- if you put a phrase such as "The Olympic games is", you'll get hits on sites that use that phrase. There were examples of both usages, but this blog explains the most common usages- "Olympics" is considered singular, while "Olympic games" is considered plural.

https://blog.esllibrary.com/2012/07/29/olympics-si...

Yes....... It is the same as using "the term World Series" in a singukar fashion to describe the entire event.