You're correct - it's the Bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) - not the olive.

Nope. The wreaths being used in the current Olympics are made from olive leaves
from a grove of trees that are supposed to be the oldest in Greece.

The Romans did the laurel thing, not the Greeks.
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