Guinness World Records do not pay any money to those who break or set records. However, they do award an official certificate of the achievement free of charge.

However, after you break a world record, you might get a lot of exposure and sponsors will pay you, so there could be a monetary gain, but not from Guinness world records.

The opening ceremony for the Olympics started on 8/8/08, because 8 is a lucky number for the Chinese people.

He won 6 gold and 2 bronze in the Athens 2004 Olympics. A total of 8 medals in Athens.

Canada has won 8 medals so far,

Canada finished with 26 medals, the most ever for Canada in the Winter Olympic games. They finished with 14 gold (a record for any nation), 7 silver and 5 bronze.

Greenland is a constitutional country of the Kingdom of Denmark, and is therefore not in the Olympics has no national Olympic committee but has applied for one so they will most probably be in the 2016 Olympics.

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Egypt's one medal was a bronze won by Hesham Misbah in men's middleweight class judo.

An item giving to a winner in an international or continental sporting event. It is either the main prize or the individual award if a trophy is given.

Archie Hahn of the United States at the 1904 Games in St. Louis.

That was Ian Thorpe who won 5 medals (3 gold, 2 silver) at the 2000 Games. Thorpe's gold medals came in the 400 meter freestyle, 4x100 meter freestyle relay, and the 4x200 meter freestyle relay. His silver medals came in the 200 meter freestyle and the 4x100 meter medley relay.

The next Olympics will be the Winter Games in 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The next Summer Games will be in 2012 in London, England.

Beach Vollyball

I don't know all who got a silver in the Olympics but I do know who got for gymnastics, Shawn Johnson

All teams go in the opening ceremony. Greece goes first, he host country goes last, and the rest is in alphebetical order by the host country's national language.

Shawn Johnson is four foot nine inches. Nastia Liuken is five foot three inches Alicia Sacramone is five foot one inch Samantha Pezek is five foot one

Great Britain won 28 medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 11 gold, 10 silver, and 7 bronze. Gold medalists for Great Britain: 1) Ben Ainslie - Sailing

2) Stephanie Cook - Modern pentathlon

3) Jonathan Edwards - triple jump

4) Richard Faulds - Target shooting

5) Audley Harrison - Boxing, super heavyweight division

6) Denise Lewis - heptathlon

7) Ian Percy - Sailing

8) Jason Queally - Cycling

9) Shirley Robertson - Sailing

10) James Cracknell, Tim Foster, Matthew Pinsent, and Steve Redgrave - Rowing, coxless four

11) Louis Attrill, Simon Dennis, Rowley Douglas, Luka Gruber, Ben Hunt-Davis, Andrew Lindsay, Fred Scarlett, Steve Trapmore, and Kieran West - Rowing, Eights

he achieved glory that he won all the pentathlon games.

Softball and Baseball have been omitted from the 2012 Olympics.

Rebecca has won three Olympic medals ... a gold in 200 meter breaststroke and silver in 100 meter breaststroke and 4x100 meter medley relay. She won all three at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

Britteny Cox, Scotty James, and Allison Reed are the youngest 2010 winter olympians. All three are 15 years old.

The 2008 Olympics will affect Beijing and possibly the rest of China.

Previous Olympics have boosted the economy of countries like Japan and Korea, elevating them to a higher status in the views of other nations.

The Beijing Olympics will certainly boost the economy of Beijing, because of the prices of the Olympics, namely, tourism. However, many surrounding factories have been shut down momentarily to prevent more air pollution so that the athletes may compete in a safe environment. The workers are getting paid an average on three American dollars per day, which is almost a third of their average regular salary. They will be less able to contribute to the economy.

Some of the workers from the factories are enjoying their holidays. The labor price is very low in China, and the workers have not received any days off in years. However, some are finding it hard to get by with their minimal pay.

The factories were originally shut down to reduce air pollution. There still remains a smoggy haze around Beijing - it didn't help much.

The cost of cleaning up the Beijing area after the Olympics, of reducing extra pollution caused by the tourism, and of starting up the factories again may cause a decline in the boost of China's economy.

According to the list of countries sorted by their GDP per capita, made by: The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and the CIA factbook, It is a country called Burundi.

he is in college right now at the University of Michigan. he hasn't graduated from there yet

The literal meaning of Gymnasium is "School for naked exercise for Men" coming from the Greek word Gymno meaning "Naked"

The Olympics are held every 4 years. The Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics are separted by two years, but, it's every 4 years. The next Winter Olympics will be in 2014, and 2018. The next Summer Olympics (after 2012) will be in 2016 and 2020.