Olympics

because there was a big earth quake in athens No that is not correct; there WAS an unofficial games in 1906 although at the time the IOC said they were official but in recent years has backed off. The games were intended as an chance for all the athletes to go back to Greece in between the regular games but the ones scheduled for 1910 never took place because of political problems in the country.

to help the athletes understand what they are doing

Through the 2008 Games in Beijing:

Men's Football -

3 gold medals: Hungary, Great Britain

2 gold medals: Argentina, Uruguay, Soviet Union

1 gold medal: Yugoslavia, Canada, Poland, Spain, Cameroon, Belgium, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Italy, Nigeria, France

Women's Football -

3 gold medals: United States

1 gold medal: Norway

The Olympic Summer Games have been held in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. The 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be the first held in South America. Neither Africa nor Antarctica has yet hosted the Olympic games.

The Olympic Winter Games have been held in Europe, Asia, and North America.

sally person one 1 for Australia, but 302 events had Gold medals won and Michael Phelps won 4 of them. Great Britain had these Gold Medal winning athletes:

Great Britain won 29 Gold Medals events Listed below are the 29 Events and their Sport followed by the names of the 48 UK Athletes

Women's coxless pair Rowing Helen Glover & Heather Stanning

Men's time trial Cycling Bradley Wiggins

Men's slalom C-2 Canoeing Timothy Baillie & Etienne Stott

Men's double trap Shooting Peter Wilson

Men's team sprint Cycling Philip Hindes Chris Hoy & Jason Kenny

Women's double sculls Rowing Katherine Grainger & Anna Watkins

Men's team pursuit Cycling Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, & Geraint Thomas

Women's Keirin Cycling Victoria Pendleton

Men's coxless four Rowing Alex Gregory, Tom James, Pete Reed, & Andrew Triggs-Hodge

Women's team pursuit Cycling Danielle King, Joanna Rowsell, & Laura Trott

Women's heptathlon Athletics Jessica Ennis

Men's long jump Athletics Greg Rutherford

Men's 10,000 m Athletics Mo Farah

Finn class Sailing Ben Ainslie

Men's singles Tennis Andy Murray

Team jumping Equestrian Scott Brash, Peter Charles, Ben Maher, & Nick Skelton

Men's sprint Cycling Jason Kenny

Men's triathlon Triathlon Alistair Brownlee

Team dressage Equestrian Laura Bechtolsheimer, Charlotte Dujardin, & Carl Hester

Women's Omnium Cycling Laura Trott

Men's Keirin Cycling Chris Hoy

Individual dressage Equestrian Charlotte Dujardin

Women's flyweight Boxing Nicola Adams

Women's 57 kg Taekwondo Jade Jones

Men's K-1 200 metres Canoeing Ed McKeever

Men's 5,000 m Athletics Mo Farah

Men's bantamweight Boxing Luke Campbell

Men's super heavyweight Boxing Anthony Joshua

Sweden won their semifinal match against Finland

Canada won their semifinal match against the USA

The match for the gold medal was not today. Canada and Sweden will compete for the gold and silver medal, and the USA and Finland will compete for the bronze medal. The USA/Finland match will be tomorrow (2/22), and the gold medal match will be on Sunday, the 23rd.

No, the 2000 Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia. The 1960 Summer Olympics were held in Rome.

Mary Lou Retton won the Gold All around in 1984.

Yes, but not by the International Olympic Committee. It's the various national sports organizations (including the local Olympic Committees) that give the athlethes prize money for medals won.

The individual colors do not represent any one thing in particular. The five rings on the Olympic flag are five different colors, blue, black, red, yellow and green. They were chosen because every nation in the world had at least one of these colors in their flag at the time it was designed, 1914.

There was no Summer Olympics in 1966. 1964 was hosted by Tokyo, Japan and 1968 games were hosted by Mexico City, Mexico.

Men: Carl Lewis, United States

Women: Evelyn Ashford, United States

Dan Dilworth was the best. He had a backhand that could not be stopped and he could release it at any time. I saw him fire a backhand...yes a backhand shot from just inside the blueline that hit the farside upper net on a world class goalie that didn't even know he took the shot! Dan was amazing and very underrated. He was the best of the 64 club in my mind.

Tennis was a part of the original modern Olympics that were started in 1896. Tennis was an Olympic sport until after the 1924 Olympics when it was dropped. Tennis, again, became an Olympic sport beginning with the 1988 Olympics.

They win gold medals (worth US$600) if they are first, silver (worth US$325) if they are second, and bronze (worth US$3) if they are third. Each countries' Olympic federation decides on a cash prize for their athletes (ranging from US$1million for gold in Singapore to no cash prizes in Great Britain)

At Olympia in Elis in southern Greece as a religious festival for Zeus in 776 BCE.

Eddie Eagan of the United States.

Eagan won gold in men's light heavyweight class boxing at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp and gold in men's four man bobsleigh at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid.

England won the most medals with 914 (343 gold, 269 silver, 302 bronze). The 343 gold was also the most gold medals won by a country.

During the Olympic games all wars and battles stopped. The games helped to form the (national) Greek identity as you could be from one of the various Greek kingdoms and city-states and consider yourself ''Greek''. Also, it was a way to distinguish yourself, other than war or lineage.

The first Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. It was a summer Olympics. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France; however, winter Olympic events were held as early as London 1908, but not as a separate Olympics.

Yes, the 1980 Summer Games were held in Moscow.

The 2014 Winter Games were held in Sochi.

In lacrosse's current form, men's lacrosse is played on a field of grass or artificial turf (such as Field Turf). Each team is composed of 10 players on the field at a time: three attack men, three midfielders, three defenders and one goaltender. In men's lacrosse, players wear protective equipment on their heads, shoulders, arms, and hands, as body checking is an integral part of the game, and stick checks to the arms and hands are considered legal. Now, that is a big difference from how the Native Americans played lacrosse. As you can see, lacrosse has slowly developed into more of an advanced form of lacrosse. Since lacrosse's debut in the Native American age, lacrosse has changed in a lot of ways. including the sticks, the amount of players that are allowed on the field, the size of the lacrosse field, the ball that they use to play, the goals, the positions, etc.

Pretty much everything has changed since. The game has always required tremendous athletic skill. In early games, just running up and down the field was a great feat. Goals could be as far as 500 yards to half a mile apart and no sidelines limited the playing area. Games lasted two to three days with "time outs" between sundown and sunup. Compared today there are four quarters in very game, and each quarter is 15 minutes long. The only real main part of the game that remained the same was the concept of the game of lacrosse, to have fun, and to knock people out.

The first form of government was tribal councils. These became absorbed into more overarching forms under developing monarchies, oligarchies and democracies, but the tribal structures remained. In Athens for example, there were ten tribes which each elected a general, provided quotas for the army, and to which 18-year olds had to prove their descent in order to be granted citizenship.