Olympics

Name of games in Beijing Olympics * Archery * Athletics * Badminton * Baseball * Basketball * Beach Volleyball * Boxing * Canoe/Kayak Flatwater * Canoe/Kayak Slalom * Cycling BMX * Cycling Mountain Bike * Cycling Road * Cycling Track * Diving * Equestrian * Fencing * Football * Gymnastics Artistic * Gymnastics Rhythmic * Trampoline * Handball * Hockey * Judo * Modern Pentathlon * Rowing * Sailing * Shooting * Softball * Swimming * Synchronized Swimming * Table Tennis * Taekwondo * Tennis * Triathlon * Volleyball * Water Polo * Weightlifting * Wrestling

Rebecca Adlington won gold in the 400 meter freestyle and 800 meter freestyle at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

According to most accounts, the rings were adopted by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (founder of the modern Olympic Movement) in 1913 after he saw a similar design on an artifact from ancient Greece.

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Archery

Athletics

Boxing

Cycling

Diving

Fencing

Figure Skating

Football

Gymnastics

Hockey

Jeu De Paume

Lacrosse

Motorboating

Polo

Racquets

Rowing

Rugby

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Tennis

Tug-Of-War

Water Polo

Wrestling

India has won 9 gold medals since the country first started participating in the Olympics in 1900. The country has won 8 gold medals in Field Hockey, and 1 gold medal in Shooting. India won its first gold medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics for Field Hockey. India's most recent gold medal was won at the 2008 China Olympics for Shooting.

The 2000 Summer Olympic Games took place in Sydney, Australia.

1) Synchronized Diving - added at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

2) Triathlon - added at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

3) Trampoline - added at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

4) Snowboarding - added at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

5) Skeleton - added at the 2002 Winter Olympics although this event was in the 1948 and 1928 Games and was known as toboggan.

• leather ice skates
• dress or skirt and shirt (women)
• trousers (men)
• no outfits may contain loose feathery material that could cause a hazard on the rink
• skaters must have music to go along with their routine

Wilma Rudolph married William Ward first in 1961 but then divorced. She later married Robert Eldridge in 1963 and had four children. They too were later divorced.

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Table tennis gear is incredibly easy and inexpensive. The desk is rectangular, 9 through 5 ft (2.7 through 1.5 metres), its top floor a degree airplane 30 inches (76 cm) above the floor. The internet is 6 toes (1.8 metres) long, and its top side alongside the total size is 6 inches (15.25 cm) above the enjoying surface.

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.

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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