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At the 2008 Games in Beijing, that was Leslie Thompson of Canada who was 48 years, 327 days old when she rowed with the women's coxed eights team.

The oldest rower in Olympic history is Oscar Rompani of Argentina who was 60 years, 67 days old when he rowed in men's coxed pairs at the 1964 Games in Tokyo.

Actually, that has happened twice.

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won gold in the marathon at the 1960 Games in Rome and 1964 Games in Tokyo and Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany won gold in the marathon at the 1976 Games in Montreal and 1980 Games in Moscow.

Canada won 44 medals (10 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze) at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

The 2016 Summer Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 2020 Summer Olympics were awarded to Tokyo, Japan. The winning city for the 2024 games will be announced in September 2017.

any serious swimmers that have the correct technique and qualifies for the times!

She did not attend any college. From the age of 6, she was trained in gymnastics at the school of coach Béla Károlyi and his wife. She appeared in competitions from the age of 8 until the age of 20 (1981) when she retired. She defected to the US in 1989 shortly before the Romanian revolution.

Only married women were not allowed to attend the games, it was punishable by death for a married woman to enter the Olympic arena. It was believed that it would upset the god Zeus for a married woman to watch the nude athletes.

The sports that are played on ice at the Olympics are hockey,figure skating, short track speed skating,long track speed skating and curling. All of these events have mens and womens catagories.

There is no "overall winner" because countries compete in different events. One way to judge success is by the number of medals, or only by the number of gold medals. The countries that have the best athletes in the most sports have an advantage in that regard.

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David Kostelecky (Czech Republic) won the gold medal in men's trap shooting in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

2004 Athens:

4×200m freestyle relay - gold (1)

200m individual medley - silver (2)

2008 Beijing:

400m individual medley - bronze (3)

4×200m freestyle relay - gold (4)

200m backstroke - gold (5)

200m individual medley - bronze (6)

2012 London:

400m individual medley - gold (7)

4x100m freestyle - silver (8)

4X200m freestyle - gold (9)

200m backstroke ?

200m individual medley ?

So far he has a total of 9 Olympic medals however I am posting this during the 2012 Olympics so there are potentially more to come for 2012.

shooting has been an Olympic sport since 1896. except 1904 & 1928 first remember that shooting is a sport practiced all over the world, and it has been for centuries. the shooting events this year are diverse. there will be air rifle events as well as conventional firearms. bare in mind however, all or most of the firearms are in the .22 LR or 12 GA. 8-7 1/2 shoot shells. the targets will be bulls-eyes and clay targets. the shooting sport is just that a sport they will not be shooting at man shaped targets. the Olympics was originally a contest of military skills. (even in ancient Greece) unlike ancient Greece or war, the contestants in the modern games walk away. look at the track and field events: the lance (projectile) the pole vault (jumping over walls or defensive obstacles) the discus (projectile) the 100-1500m dash (charge! or retreat!) the marathon (battlefield mesager) there is also the other events with military implications: equestian, rowing, canoeing, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, archery, fencing, boxing but there are modern sports as well. the purpose of the games is to bring the world together on a field for peaceful competition. In no other place or time for the next four years will the USA will be able to compete with North Korea in many of the events. I know that firearms are frowned upon in many countries but i much prefer a peaceful contest of arms to testing there skills on the field of war.

19 women competed in three sports (golf, croquet, tennis).

Colorado turned down the Olympic games. In 1972, Colorado informed the Olympic committee that they didn't want the 1976 Winter Olympic Games to be held in Colorado. They were awarded the games in 1970, but went back to the Olympic committee in 1972 and said they didn't want them.

Tessa Sanderson of Great Britain won a gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

The reason for the Olympics is that they are fun!!!!!!! :-)

At this point we really don't know although can say that it won't be until 2016 at the earliest. The 2010 Winter Games are scheduled for Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Games will be held in Russia. The 2012 Summer Games will be in London. The next Games to be awarded are the 2016 games. The only US city bidding on them is Chicago. The site of the 2016 Games will be selected by the IOC in early October, 2009.

It has already affected the Olympics. Timing is now down to fractions of seconds. It used to be the first one to cross the finish line and everyone ran at once. Now they run heats allowing everyone to have a clear track to run on. Uniforms, shoes and goggles are all scientifically designed to provide the least resistance and best grip. Games are designed and held to maximize media exposure to allow competition to be watched around the world. And the best athletes in the world can be gathered together in a matter of days, instead of weeks of train and boat travel. Did you know that the rules of the javelin event had to be modified and the shape and materials of the javelin were changed, as athletes were throwing over 100m, putting spectators lives at risk!

When sun rays reflect off a parabolic dish/mirror an invisible sun beam ignites the torch and this is the ancient method still used to light the Olympic Torch.

She has won 2 GOLD MEDALS

The 1940 and 1944 Summer and Winter Olympics were cancelled due to World War II.

China will send its largest-ever delegation to Vancouver for this year's Winter Olympic Games -- a whopping 182-member delegation, including 91 athletes and 91 coaches and officials.