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Indonesia did not win any medals at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. They won their first ever Olympic medal at the 1988 Games in Seoul when Lilies Handayani, Kusuma Wardhani, and Nurfitriyana Saiman-Lantang won silver in women's team archery.

The first ever olympics were held in 776bc

In the Olympics, two ... a gold in women's downhill alpine skiing and a bronze in women's Super G alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

She has also won 4 medals in the World Championships, a gold and silver in downhill and a gold and silver in Super G.

Salt Lake City, Utah Woot go Utah!

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Even before the 2012 Olympics Michael Phelps with 14 had won the most. After the 2012 Olympics his total is 18 and 22 Medals total

Raymond Ewry of the United States is credited with having won the most gold medals in the Olympics at 10. His events were the standing long jump, standing high jump, and standing triple jump at the Olympics in the early 1900s.

Second most gold medals won is 9 and was done by swimmer Mark Spitz and track and field athlete Carl Lewis.

Using mirrors to focus the sun's rays the torch is first lit at an ancient Greek temple and then carried by relays of runners to the location of the games. The first relay was in 1936. Planes are used to cross oceans.

As of the 2008 Bejing Olympics the following countries have won a gold medal in volleyball at the olympics:

United States 3 mens 3 mens beach 2 womens beach

Soviet Union 3 mens 4 womens

Brazil 2 mens 1 womens 1 mens beach 1 womens beach

Japan 1 mens 2 womens

Cuba 3 womens

China 2 womens

Netherlands 1 mens

Poland 1 mens

Australia 1 womens beach

Yugoslavia 1 mens

• According to the International Olympic Committee website, the Olympics are held every four years to respect the origins of the Ancient Olympics which were held every four years.
• An Olympiad is four years in length and this is the length of time chosen to be between the Olympics in both the modern and ancient eras. Although an IOC-sanctioned event was held in 1906 (but the IOC do not widely regarded this event as an Olympics) and the idea to hold events in the gap between olympics was dropped).

Yes. The winter games have been held twice in Innsbruck (1964 and 1976)

Freestyle skiing (aerials, ballet, moguls) debuted as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Games in Calgary. At the 1992 Games, moguls was a medal event and aerials and ballet were still demonstration events. Ballet was dropped from the 1994 Games and aerials became a medal event.

1960 Winter Games: Cross country skier Veikko Hakulinen of Finland with 3 (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze).

1960 Summer Games: Gymnast Boris Shahklin of the Soviet Union with 7 (4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze).

This being 2007, the last Winter Olympic Games was in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Germany won the most medals (29) and the most gold medals (11). In the last Summer Games in 2004, the United States won the most medals (102) and the most gold medals (36).

Hitler started the Olympics in 1936.

Hitler merely declared the Games open in 1936, he had nothing to do with starting the Olympic Movement. The most widely held estimate for the inception of the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC.

The Olympic Games, were first revived with a modern international Olympic Games held in 1859 in Athens, Greece. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded in 1894 on the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. His vision was to bring together amateur athletes from around the world to compete in a variety of events. The First Olympic Games to be held under the IOC was Athens in 1896.

It wasn't common, but some people did it. For example, they would do something with someone's chariot before the chariot race, so it would break when the race starts. Also, some people bribed people to let them win. Everyone who contributes to the cheating had to pay fines.

The Olympic game today are, far more than anything else, a commercial venture as opposed to a competition between amateurs.

The actual sports activities are simply the 'hook' on which the rest of the spectacle is hung and have become almost incidental.

Berlin, Germany.

That would be fencer Aladár Gerevich of Hungary who won gold in 6 consecutive Olympic Games between 1932-1960.

1) 1932 - gold in team Sabre

2) 1936 - gold in team Sabre

3) 1948 - gold in team Sabre and individual Sabre

4) 1952 - gold in team Sabre

5) 1956 - gold in team Sabre

6) 1960 - gold in team Sabre

Of course, there were no Games in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II. The first athlete to win gold in five consecutive Olympics were there was no interruption due to war was rower Steve Redgrave of Great Britain:

1984 - gold in coxed fours

1988 - gold in coxless pairs

1992 - gold in coxless pairs

1996 - gold in coxless pairs

2000 - gold in coxless fours

Kayaker Birgit Fischer of Germany also won gold in 5 consecutive Olympics (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004).

They were held in Athens, in 1896. ~cjm

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The next Olympics are in 2012 in London, UK. There will be many events in the UK. The Sailing for example will be in Weymouth, Dorset.

Answer: The awards were completely different in ancient Greece: the races were not about money and commercials, but about honour. The winners were given an olive branch and were celebrated throughout Greece and especially in their home town. Some cities would then sponsor their athletes and give them money-for instance Athens would grant them around 500 drachma (a fortune at the time). Others would give them similar prizes, including vats of olive oil. If their victory was outstanding, sculptors would make them statues and poets would sing odes about them.

Jamaica won 6 gold medals in the 2008 Olympics. Usain Bolt won 3 gold medals and broke the world record in the 100 meter dash and 200 meter dash and was on the 4x100 meter relay team that broke the world record: 1) Shelly-Ann Fraser - women's 100 meter dash

2) Melanie Walker - women's 400 meter hurdles

3) Usain Bolt - men's 100 meter dash and men's 200 meter dash

4) Veronica Campbell-Brown - women's 200 meter dash

5) Usain Bolt, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell - men's 4x100 meter relay Jamaica also won 3 silver medals and 2 bronze medals at the 2008 Games.