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Olympics
The Olympics is known as the biggest meet of many sports. Athletes in this meet do not play for a team or club, but rather represent their country. Competing for your country in the Olympics is considered the highest honor by many.
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How many Olympics has jessica ennis been in?
8 Medals are listed in Wikipedia. Only 1 Gold Medal at the 2012 Olympics for the Heptathlon and 7 other Gold silver and Bronze medals for the same events or the Pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships, European Championships, Commonwealth Games, Summer Universiade, & World Championships
Why are soldiers rewarded medals?
10% on military retirement. Not only that, the satisfaction of having a General stop you and ask you why you are wearing one when he does not have one you can tell him to get out from behind his desk and risk his life sometime.
If a marathon is 26 miles what is the distance in feet?
138,336 feet = 26.2 miles 138,336 feet = 26.2 miles
What year did Carmelo Anthony go to the Olympics?
Carmelo was traded to the knicks at the end of february around the time of the trade deadline
What colour represents sadness?
definitely blue e.g. " Jimmy, I'm feeling blue" blue makes me fell sad. Wat bout u?
Who was the first winners of the first Olympic Games?
In the modern Olympics, that was James Connolly of the United States who won the triple jump on April 6, 1896. History has several myths as to the origin of the Ancient Games. One is that the Greek hero Heracles won a foot race of about 200 meters and then decreed that this race should be run every four years. This turned into being the Olympic Games.
What is the period of time between the Olympic Games is called?
The four years between two summer games or between two winter games is called an olympiad. Note that the summer and winter games are separated by two years, e.g. 2008 Beijing, then 2010 Vancouver and then 2012 London.
Runners jump obstacles in the following races:
Women's 100m hurdles
Men's 110m hurdles
400m hurdles
3000m steeplechase
Who has won the most consecutive Olympic Gold medals?
Aladár Gerevich won 6 consecutive gold medals in Team Sabre Fencing between 1932 and 1960 (he may have won 8 but for the war). Birgit Fischer won 6 consecutive golds in kaying from 1980 to 2004 and may have won 7 but for the boycott by East Germany in Los Angeles Next is Steve Redgrave who won 5 consecutive golds in rowing while three men - Carl Lewis in the Long Jump, Al Oerter in the discuss and Per Elstrom in saling won four consecutive golds in individual events.
SUMMER OLYMPICS - 1992 to 2024 1992 - BARCOLENA, Spain 1996 - ATLANTA, U.S.A. 2000 - SYDNEY, Australia 2004 - ATHENS, Greece 2008 - BEIJING, China 2012 - LONDON, England - G.B 2016 - TOKYO, Japan CHICAGO, U.S.A DOHA, Qatar MADRID, Spain 2020 - GOLD COAST, Australia - Not Confirmed Yet. PEURTO RICO, Unknown-Country - Not Confirmed Yet. HOBART, Australia ADELAIDE, Australia - Not Confirmed Yet. 2024 - BRISBANE, Australia NEW YORK, U.S.A PARIS, France. MELBOURNE, Australia COMMONWEALTH GAMES; 2006 to 2018 2006 - MELBOURNE, Australia 2010 - [ Couldn't Remember, My apologies ] 2014 - GLASGOW, Scotland 2018 - GOLD COAST, Australia - BIDDING My apologies if above is incorrect but it is all information I could get...
How many times has the Olympics been held in Brazil?
Through the 2008 Games, 20.
Brazil has won 6 gold medals in sailing, 4 in athletics, 3 in indoor volleyball, 2 each in beach volleyball and judo, and 1 each in swimming, shooting, and equestrian.
How many medals Alicia sacramone have?
At the Olympics, no. Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, Alicia Sacramone has won one Olympic medal, a silver in women's team all-around at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
She has won gold medals at the World Championships in floor exercise in 2005 and team competition in 2007.
What were the past host cities for the Winter Olympic games?
Chamonix, France 1924
St Moritz, Switzerland 1928
Lake Placid, New York, USA 1932
Garmisch Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany 1936
St Moritz, Switzerland 1948
Oslo, Norway 1952
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956
Squaw Valley, California, USA 1960
Innsbruck, Austria 1964
Grenoble, France 1968
Sapporo, Japan 1972
Innsbruck, Austria 1976
Lake Placid, New York, USA 1980
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984
Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1988
Albertville, France 1992
Lillehammer, Norway 1994
Nagano, Japan 1998
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 2002
Turin, Italy 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2010
There are many games or sports that are played in the Olympic games. Summer games include swimming, track and field, and cycling. Winter games include skiing, figure skating, and snowboarding.
Why does Greece enter the stadium first during the Olympic games?
Because Greece invented and held the first Olympic Games over a couple of centuries;the modern Olympics started in the 1800s and Greece has been given the honour of leading the nations march. Because the first Olympic Games held in 776 BC were held in Greece. These games are commonly called the 'ancient Olympics'. Because of that Greece is honored by being the first country to enter the stadium during opening and closing ceremonies.
Who decides who takes part in the Olympics?
The Olympic Committe (an international organization), listens to proposals from cities interested in hosting the games, and makes a decision where the games will be held.
This is how the process will work in Copenhagen:
First, the presentations: Each city will tell its story Friday for the final time in 45-minute presentations with another 15 minutes for IOC members' questions. In an order determined by drawing lots last year, Chicago goes first, followed by Tokyo, Rio and Madrid.
Then the 106 IOC members vote -- or don't
The 106 eligible members -- not all are guaranteed to be on hand -- vote secretly by pressing numbered buttons (one for each candidate) on machines.
Members in a country with a candidate cannot vote until that city is eliminated. That means there will be 99 eligible voters in the first round, since Brazil, Japan and the United States each have two IOC members, while Spain has one. Sometimes not even all the members who are present cast a vote. In the two-round election that made Vancouver the 2010 Winter Games host, four eligible IOC members did not vote in the first round and three did not vote in the second round. The missing votes could have changed the outcome.
"You can't force people to vote," IOC member Denis Oswald of Switzerland said at the time.
The low vote-getter is cut after each round
If no city gets a majority of the votes cast, the bidder with least support is eliminated and a new round of voting is held. The ejected candidate is announced publicly before the next round begins. Which means that if Chicago wins the bid, it won't be known until nearly noon. But if the city loses in an early round, Chicagoans will hear about it earlier than that.
Not since the vote for the 1988 Olympics, when winner Seoul and Nagoya, Japan, were the only two candidates, has a Summer Games ballot lasted only one round. Even an overwhelming favorite like Beijing needed two rounds to become the 2008 winner.
Source: Chicago Tribune September 30, 2009
How many different sports are there in the London 2012 Olympics?
There are 26 sports in the Olympic Games 2012 in London
The expert answer is incorrect! A half marathon is not 21,098 kilometres, It is 21.1 kilometres
Which two continents do not participate in the Olympics?
A Summer Olympics has not been held on the continents of Africa nor South America.
What it's made of? -- The gold medal is actually made mostly of silver, but must be gilded with at least 6 grams (0.21 ounces) of pure gold according to the International Olympic Committee standard. The silver must be at least 925-1000 grade. This year the Chinese have included one-of-a-kind jade rings that lay imbedded upon one side of the medal. The jade used is one-of-a-kind because it is not man-made and thus uses a substance that is equally unique to that of the athletes' ability it may belong to. Which is why the jade design was chosen by the Chinese Olympic Commission. Which leads to the answer of one of your next questions:
Who makes them? -- It is the responsibility of the host city to design one half of the medals (i.e. the Chinese chose to have jade, a natural material found most prominently in their country, to be place on one side of the 2008 Olympic medals). It is also the full responsibility of the host country to forge the medals before the games begin.
What is gold medal worth? -- The price of gold changes year to year so the answer to the question would change accordingly. If you discount the fact that truly the Olympic gold medal has priceless sentimental and nationalistic value and simply look at it as a metal medallion with monetary value set accordingly to the composition of the silver and gold used to create it then the value of the gold medal as of August 2008 would be roughly $220 USD. The jade is truly priceless due to it's one-of-a-kind nature, thus in auction could fetch much more but, of course, an indeterminable amount.
