Olympics

The event in which a heavy ball tied with a chain is thrown is called the hammer throw. The winner is the person who tosses the hammer the farthest.

Olympic protocol states the first athletes that enter the stadium during the opening ceremony are those from Greece in recognition of Greece being the home of the Olympics (where the Ancient Olympics first began).

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Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, two sprinters from Canada have won the men's 100 meter dash gold medal:

1) 1928 - Percy Williams

2) 1996 - Donovan Bailey

Fuwa will serve as the official "mascot[s]" for the next olympics.

Designed to express the playful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, Fuwa also embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals -- the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow -- and the Olympic Flame. Each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name -- a traditional way of expressing affection for children in China. Beibei is the Fish, Jingjing is the Panda, Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame, Yingying is the Tibetan Antelope and Nini is the Swallow. When you put their names together -- Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni -- they say "Welcome to Beijing," offering a warm invitation that reflects the mission of Fuwa as young ambassadors for the Olympic Games.

Australia has hosted summer Olympics twice. Once in 1956 and again in 2000. However, in 1956 games Equestrian events were held five months prior to the main event in Sweden as quarantine regulations did not allow the conduct of Equestrian events in Australia.

Usain bolt 9.58 and his olympic record is 9.69

All countries have some sort of selection process and I suppose in some you could just show up at an open tryout, but more likely the best athletes will be invited to compete. You can't just show up in Bejing and tell the officials you want to enter an event.

You can be at least 14 years of age! However, at that age, you have to be at top class and pass the Youth Academy and go up the world ladder. Normally, you can start swimming in the Olympiics at the age of 16. It depends on how your swimming progresses through the future.

no, but I think baseball is, and kickball comes from baseball.

Summer: The Summer Games were originally scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan but were retracted due to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. They were awarded to Helsinki, Finland but eventually were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War 2. Winter: The Winter Games were originally scheduled to take place in Sapporo, Japan but were retracted due to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. The IOC then awarded the Games to St. Moritz, Switzerland but due to organization problems between the International Olympic Committee and the Swiss, the games were withdrawn from there and awarded to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany where the 1936 Winter Olympics were held. When Germany invaded Poland in September, 1939 the games were withdrawn and officially cancelled.

In the St Louis games, the U.S. won 235 medals.

Germany won the second most that year with 13 total medals.

Then in 1984 the US won 174 which is the second most ever won

Olympic athletes are amateurs. They do not get paid. Britain does not award cash to medal winners. Other countries in the UK might award cash to their medal winners.

The founder of the modern Olympic Games was a Frenchman by the name of Pierre de Coubertin, who was born in the French Capital, Paris, in 1863. He was also the President of the International Olympic Committee and remained as an honorary presidednt until his death in 1937, when he passed away in the Swiss city of Geneva.

There are a lot of Team events in the Olympics here are a couple:

* Summer Olympics: * ** Basketball *** Baseball

*** Soccer (aka Football)

*** Volleyball

*** Relay Races * Winter Olympics * ** Hockey *** Bobsled *** Men's Team Pursuit Speed Skating

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Men - Donovan Bailey of Canada in a time of 9.84 seconds. Women - Gail Devers of the United States in a time of 10.94 seconds.

Thorpe was raised as a Sauk and Fox.

His father's parents were Irish and Sauk and Fox and his mother's parents were French and Pottawatomie. Thorpe's mother was a descendant of Black Hawk, a great Sauk and Fox chief.

The colors of the Olympic rings represent the colors any nation may have on its flag with no exceptions. So the color blue represents the blue in any national flag, such as Greek, French, Swedish and so on.

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"The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well."

Pierre De Coubertin

Or more likely what our questioner is looking for is "higher, faster, stronger".

5. All were gold medals.

Natalie won in 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter freestyle, 400 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly, and 200 meter individual medley.

The first Olympic games were held in Greece. The Greeks believed that the 12 main deities lived on Mount Olympus. So they named the games in honor of their Gods. That name has filtered into modern history and is the name for the Winter and Summer Olympic games

In addition, there is a town on the Peleponnese named Olympia. It was the site of the original olympic games held in the 776 B.C.E. A large part of the stadium and hippodrome are is still intact and may be visited. Olympia is also the site of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The statue is long gone but part of the temple remains.