paddypowerpoker.com today announces details of The PPP Olympics, a series of money-added tournaments that are inspired by this year’s sporting festival in Beijing and will lead up to a Gold Medal Freeroll, which will have more than $15,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs.

Each of the Hold’em and Omaha events, which run twice nightly from August 8th until August 14th, is named after an Olympic event and will have either $250 or $1,000 added by paddypowerpoker.com to the prizepool.

Players will have to participate in at least three of The PPP Olympics events in order to qualify to play in the Gold Medal Freeroll on August 15th.