Olympics

Once you reach a high level of compatition in speed skating, you do whats called "Single Distance Championships". This is when a person only competes in his/her best distance, Some people do more than one distance, but many perfer to just focouson one.

Therefore there is no one winner for 1990, there would be winners for both male and female, and for every distance. There is the 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 3K races, there may be more but those are the basic and most common ones.

An olympian can win a gold(1st), silver(2nd),or bronze(3rd) medal.

This depends on the discipline. Thoroughbred racehorses are backed, or taught to wear a saddle, as yearlings and raced as two-year-olds. Most people frown on this because it causes the horses to wear up and die young. Dressage, show jumping, eventing etc. requires more intensive training, and a seven or eight year old horse is only at the beginning of his career. (By this age a successful racehorse would have been retired from racing and used exclusively for breeding for several years). Haute ecole, or high school, horses must be trained for even longer. These 'performing horses' are not often competed with and are usually seen in public demonstrations of horsemanship. The most famous haute ecole establishment is the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, responsible for making Lipizanners famous. Difficult dressage manouvres such as the piaffe, capriole and levade take many years to teach to a horse, and haute ecole horses only start performing around age 13.

The skeleton race is one of three sled races in the Olympics. The other two are the bobsled and the luge. In the bobsled race, two to four people sit in a sled and steer their way down a course. In the luge, the rider lies face up with his or her feet going down the course first. In the skeleton, the slider lies face down on the sled. The rider goes head first down the course.

The name comes from the fact that the first metal sled used for racing looked like a skeleton.

A skeleton sled is just three feet long. When a rider jumps on the skeleton, he or she is face down, in most cases, a rider's chin is a mere two inches from the ice. There is no steering to steer they just shift their weight side to side.

The event made its first Olympic appearance in 1928 at the St. Moritz Winter Games.

To win a medal in the skeleton event, you must make two runs down to course in one day. The times are combined after the two runs. Thee fastest combined times are awarded medals.

The skeleton is unique in that you can get off the sled during the run if it is necessary. The only rule is that you must be on the sled when it crosses the finish line.

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From everything I have read it appears that pro sports teams in the US are self governed by their league (NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.) The government only gets involved if there is a claim of game fixing for gambling purposes. However manipulating the outcome of a game for entertainment or advertising purposes is legal. Read an interesting article by clicking on the link below.

Two were canceled (1942 and 1946) and Germany was banned from international sport so couldn't compete in the 1950 tournament.

Five sports from the Summer Olympic Games are swimming, gymnastics (artistic and rhythmic), volleyball, fencing, and rowing. There were 26 sports in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, and there will be 28 in the 2016 Games.

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Prior to the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China: 2004 - Athens, Greece

2000 - Sydney, Australia

1996 - Atlanta, United States of America

1992 - Barcelona, Spain

1988 - Seoul, South Korea

TONIGHT! Tuesday, February 23, 2010. I'm not sure what time it's on but just keep your TV on channel 9 (9-1) this evening and you'll see it. They'll probably announce it on there. I can't wait!

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The last winter olympics took place in Vancouver Canada

The last summer olympics took place in London England

The Olympic rings are blue, black, red, yellow, and green. Every country in the world has one of their flags' colors represented by one or more of the rings.

Madagascar has never won an Olympic medal. It first competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and has been to every one since with the exception of 1976 and 1988. It made its debut appearance at the Winter Games in 2006.

No, caffeine used to be one of the substances checked for by the IOC but the World Anti-Doping Agency removed caffeine from its list of banned substances in 2004. A urinary test that returned an amount of 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter was considered by the IOC as a deliberate attempt to gain an advantage. Although not banned, it is still being checked for and should the WADA find enough athletes that have an elevated level of caffeine in their system, they will revisit their policy to determine whether it should go back on their list of banned substances. Bakhaavaa Buidaa of Mongolia was stripped of his silver medal in judo at the 1972 Games in Munich due to elevated levels of caffeine. Alex Watson, a fencer from Australia who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul was also banned due to an elevated level of caffeine in his system.

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You will need to run low 44 to even be in the running. Most likely, you will need to break 44 to win.

You don't need low 44s to qualify, The olympic standard is around 45.5s to qualify.

One reason is the athletes competed, "nude". The second and most important, most of the games required "strength" as a key fator. Against men, the match was unfair and thus not worthy of viewing. Most likely either law, or social mores prevented women from competing. In ancient Greece and like most "other civilizations", women would not typically be allowed to even practice "war like" sports. Most sports are derived from war-like activities ie... running, chasing, throwing, wrestling and so on... Perhaps there are exceptions to this.. keep looking...

It was spread through the British colonies from their earliest times (hence its huge popularity in those countries, particularly India and Pakistan, and their dominance in the first years of decent competition). Its addition to the Olympic Games was also a major breakthrough, and cemented it as one of the top international sports. This version became popular in Canada and the US, before spreading to Northern and Eastern Europe (which are all typically winter-sport-oriented areas). The US American habit of forcefully promoting everything it does well at, regardless of importance to the rest of the world, helped considerably. This type is not as popular, but is gaining favour in European countries as an alternative to making large permanent, virtually sole-use turfs for the outdoor style. The move of several famous field hockey players to the indoor game attracted many fans, if only because it was more hockey to watch during lulls in the regular season. However, because of its pace and huge amount of action, it is accruing renown as a fantastic spectator sport and televising of events is on the rise.

The word 'Gymnastics' comes from the Greek for 'naked' - early gymnasts used to perform without any clothes.

well asia, australia, europe, north america, have hosted the olympic games while

antarctica and africa hasn't. south america will be hosting in 2016 in rio de janrio

I like The olympics

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