Olympics

Michael Phelps (6 gold, 2 bronze)

The following nations participated in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid: Andorra

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Bolivia

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Costa Rica

Cyprus

Czechoslovakia

East Germany

Finland

France

Great Britain

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Italy

Japan

South Korea

Lebanon

Liechtenstein

Mongolia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Poland

Romania

Soviet Union

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United States

West Germany

Yugoslavia

I have been told that the city with the most Olympians is the city of Terrassa in Catalonia in the province of Barcelona. It has been traditional for the strength of the hockey tradition in the city to be reflected in the number of players in the Spanish Olympic team, hence the large number of medal holders in the city.

Up until 2020, there will be no Olympics held in Africa. There have been no bids put forward, or accepted to this point. There may, however, of course, be one held on this continent in the future.

That would be Paris and the 1900 Summer Olympics. Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain was the first woman to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games when she won the Ladies Singles competition in tennis.

The origin of the Olympic game is not known for certain, in Greek myth the games were established by Heracles son of Zeus (Hercules) all that is known that the Olympics had been established at some point prior to the 7th or 8th century BC. The Ancient Olympic game were held every four years; but were ended around the 4th century AD on the grounds that it involved pagan practices; inducing devotions to the Greek gods.

In the 19th century the Olympics were re-established as a cultural event with no religious context; the first of the modern games were in 1896.

South Korea has not hosted the Winter Olympics. Seoul did host the 1988 Summer Olympics.

At the inaugural Olympic Games in 1896 there were 14participating nations ; Greece (host nation), Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.

Yes, and there has been one Canadian athlete that has won medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Clara Hughes won medals in speed skating at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics and medals in cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Another is Hayley Wickenheiser who has played on the women's hockey team in the Winter Olympics and the softball team in the Summer Olympics.

Wasn't It Suppose To Bring All The Nations Together..x The purpose of the olympic was to discrimate canditates of different countries for first place. Furthermore, it is a form of hierarchy whereas nation states would be numbered from No.1 to.... based on the results and overall performance of it athletes.

Germany won 26 medals (10 gold, 10 silver, 6 bronze) at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville. That ranked first of all countries participating. The 10 gold medals also ranked first.

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.

There were no Olympic Games in 1944 due to World War II but had there been the Winter Games would have been held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy and the Summer Games would have been held in London, England.

NO

Munich, 1972, and Atlanta, 1996, were the cities and years of the Olympic Games that had terrorist disturbances.

His model was based on; * The Ancient Greek Games * The Public School's "games ethic" * Tom Brown's school days * Robert Dover's Olimpick Games * Much Wenlock Olympian Games * International relations- global harmony He was bron into an Aristocratic family in 1862.He developed an avid interest in both education and sport. He received an invitation in 1889 to attend the Wenlock Olympics Visited English Public Schools Impressed by the approach to manly sprots and Robert Arnold's rugby schools He saw that the philospphy of muscular Christianity and its vehicles of athleticism embodied the way for France to re- build and re-invigorate her youth following the defeat in the Franco Prussion War He also visited the USA and by the early 1890's had formuated what has become known as his Olympic Dream.

Poland never hosted any summer or winter olympics.

24 sports were competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London:

Archery

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Diving

Fencing

Figure skating

Football

Gymnastics

Hockey

Jeu de paume

Lacrosse

Polo

Rackets

Rowing

Rugby

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Tennis

Tug of war

Water motorsports

Water polo

Wrestling

I don't think the IOC considers them to recognize continents. It is said the five colors represent all the flags of the world at least one color appearing in every flag.

Atlanta, Georgia (USA) hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics

Despite popular misconceptions there is no link between the ring colours and a continent, the colours simply came from those colours that appeared on all the national flags of the world at that time. The colors, including white, are chosen such that the flag of every country has at least one of its colors in the Olympic flag.

The rings of blue, black, yellow, red and green, which make up one of the most recognized symbols in the world, traditionally represent the five different areas of the world involved in the Olympics (North and South America are considered one area, along with Africa, Australia, Asia and Europe). However, these continents are not represented individually by any particular ring.

Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals and is possibly the best swimmer there ever was. He won the one-hundred and two-hundred meter butterflies, the one-hundred, two-hundred, four-hundred, and eight-hundred meter free-syle, and the four-hundred meter medley relay.

Long Track ...

Men: Dan Jansen, United States

Women: Bonnie Blair, United States

Short Track ...

Men: Kim Gi-Hun, South Korea

Women: Jeon I-Gyeong, South Korea

Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that would be swimmer Jenny Thompson with 8 gold medals: 1992 Games in Barcelona 1) 4x100 meter freestyle relay

2) 4x100 meter medley relay 1996 Games in Atlanta 1) 4x100 meter freestyle relay

2) 4x200 meter freestyle relay

3) 4x100 meter medley relay 2000 Games in Sydney 1) 4x100 meter freestyle relay

2) 4x200 meter freestyle relay

3) 4x100 meter medley relay