Olympics

The very first Olympic games were held in 776 B.C. to honor Zeus. In Athens Greece.

He first started skiing at the age of four with his older brother. His mom (Cathy) attempted to slow him down and made him snowboard, but it actually made him go even faster.

Kerri Strug was a gold medalist gymnast! (:

The Olympic games creates/ promotes a sense of competition.

It provides an op opportunity for people/ countries to show their best performance.

It helps promote the sporting standards.

It is an event which brings together the world close to each other.

It promotes the sportsman spirit among the competitors and also to the spectators/

It provides an opportunity to the world for a good quality entertainment.

Sports are healthy events and help in better health and physique. This fact is highlighetd by the Olympic events.

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They take into account the seriousness of the crime, including length of conviction, and when the crime was committed. Driving offenses like speeding aren't grounds for not receiving accreditation.

The gold and silver medals are both made out of solid silver. The gold medal is then plated with gold. The gold plate is thin and if it is handled too often it will eventualy come away.

The 1984 Summer Games were held in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Sports that are played at international level (e.g. France vs England at football/soccer).

Normal classic skis should be about 25 cm higher than your body height.

Each season's Games occur every four years and are staggered by two years. This means there is an Olympic Games every two years. This year (2008), the Summer Olympics are held. In 2010, the Winter Olympics will be held. In 2012, the Summer Olympics will be held. In 2014, the Winter Olympics will be held.

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The first Olympic games were held in Olimpia, grece

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The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee. Each medal must be at least three millimeters thick and 60 millimeters in diameter. Also, the gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold. info taken from: http://history1900s.about.com/od/greateventsofthecentury/a/olympicfacts.htm

Athletes stay in a variety of housing. Some stay at the Olympic Village, others rent hotel rooms or houses. I'm sure some Chinese athletes might stay in their personal homes if they are near their competition venue.

Although it was already gaining popularity in the 1980s, it was only in the 1999 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan that it became a part of the quadrennial event.
Snowboarding's first year in the Olympics was in 1998 at Nagano, Japan.
it came to the Olympics in 1898 feb 28

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yes! i love racing motocross and i think it would be very fun to see.. it would be just like the motocross de nations!

There is no infrastructure in Antarctica. No commercial accommodations, transportation, sports venues, hospitals and so forth.

It is a continent preserved by The Antarctic Treaty, for science.

They weren't timed. Whoever crossed the finish line first, won. Period.

I could not tell specifically a game as a women game as in present world, in all games and in all fields women are participating in equal number to men. so, i could not mention a game specifically as a women's game.

A boat's coxswain (pronounced cox'n) is in charge of tactical decisions, steering, and most importantly, the safety of the rowers. Coxswains do not row. Sculling boats (boats of 1, 2, or 4 rowers with 2 oars per rower) generally do not have coxswains. Occasionally a 4-scull will have a cox, but the others do not because they are simple not big enough to be effective with one.