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The Olympic Flag has rings of Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red in order from left to right, on a white background.
The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the center: blue, yellow, black, green and red. It represents the five inhabited continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.
Depends on what ring.

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There have been two winter Olympic games held in Japan. In the winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998, US women won four (4) gold medals. Three (3) individual gold medals and a team gold for the ice hockey. The total of gold medals won by Americans was six. US men won two (2). See the Related Link for "US medals at Nagano 1998" more more on the answer.

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The benefits of hosting the Olympic Games are:

- increased employment - lots of workers needed for construction of facilities etc.

- increased tourism - the host nation is put on show to all the world

- better infrastructure - transport, security etc. are all improved

- feel-good factor across the host nation

The Olympics usually are very expensive (London 2012 budget is somewhere around £9 billion) and so host nations have to weigh up the pros and cons.

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Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, 2.

Lauren Burns won gold in women's flyweight class at the 2000 Games in Sydney and Daniel Trenton won silver in men's heavyweight class also at the 2000 Games.

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Wilma Rudolph is a girl

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Carl Lewis won 10 Olympic medals ... 9 gold and 1 silver.

The gold medals were in long jump (4 - 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), 100 meter dash (2 - 1984, 1988), 4x100 meter relay (2 - 1984, 1992), and 200 meter dash (1 - 1984). He won a silver in 200 meter dash in 1988.

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1996 - Atlanta, United States

2000 - Sydney, Australia

2004 - Athens, Greece

2008 - Beijing, China

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London, UK in the 1948 Summer Games.

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quadathlon

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Barbiturates are a type of drug that falls under the general category of sedative.

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The 5 rings represent the 5 continents. They are interlaced to show the universality of Olympism and the meeting of the athletes of the whole world during the Olympic Games.

At first, the way the rings were interlaced was sometimes a little odd compared with what we are use to today.

Nowadays, the Olympic symbol is subject to very strict rules. Graphic standards have been set down, which determine, for example, the exact position of each ring.

The colors of the rings also represent the whole world, as there is not a national flag in the world that does not have at least some red, green, blue, yellow, or black in it.

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Ecuador first went to the Summer Olympics in 1924 and has participated in every Summer Olympics since 1968.

At the 2008 Games, they sent athletes to participate in athletics, boxing, cycling, judo, shooting, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, and weightlifting.

One athlete from Ecuador has won an Olympic medal, that being Jefferson Pérez who won gold in men's 20 km walk at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and silver in men's 20 km walk at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

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On three occasions, the most number of any nation to date, the events were in 1908, 1948 and 2012.

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There are 202 countries in the world and in Athens 2004, all 202 countries entered teams for the first time ever.Men and wemen are allowed to compete in all the events that are performed during the olympics.

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The last summer Olympic games were held in Beijing, China in 2008.

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Greece will go first and last.

Greece will come in first and last - the flag will be carried into the stadium first, and the team will come meanie bobini

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COuntries enter in alphabetical order of the name of the countries, accordiing to the name as spelled by the host country. The language and alphabet of the host country is also used. Greece enteres first, and the host country enters last, irregardless of the alphabetization. In 2004, with Greece hosting, the Grecian flag entered first and the Grecian delegation enters last.

They enter alphabetically. The alphabetical order is based on the language of the host country.

This year, the countries entered alphabetically in the order of the Greek alphabet, according to the name of the country in Greek.

This gets interesting in that there have been several different Greek alphabets throughout history. For instance, the letters "v" and "b" are synonymous, as are "ph" and "f", and "e" and "i". This means France entered after the "a" and "b" and "v" countries, and before the "g" countries, rather than near the end where "ph"/"f" fall in the Greek alphabet. Spain entered with the "e" countries. (Espanola?.)

For more on the Greek alphabet, you can go to http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html

For more on the countries participating in the Olympics, there's http://www.nbcolympics.com/countries/index.html

I'm still looking for a link as to the actual order of all 200+ countries.

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I found a link!

athens2004.com

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Paralympic games.

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Yes. In gymnastics, the athlete must be 16 to compete in the Olympics..or turning 16 in that year. Before 1996, however, the minimum age was 15. The reason for this is because the IOC don't want (mostly) young girls to get injured at such a young age and injured during the aging process of younng teens.

They can be in the youth olympic games

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Apparantly The people who organise it are trying to organise for the games to be held in London and use the facilities used by the 2012 athletes.