Olympics

A person who competes in ten athletic events is called a decathlete.

Absolutely none. No Olympian has ever won prize money for winning event, even in Ancient Times.

This is what I thought, too. However, it turns out that many (if not all) of the individual country's Olympic Committees do award prizes to Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners. For example, the US awards $25,000, $15,000, and $10,000 to the Gold, Silver, and Bronze, respectively. Similarly, Canada awards $20,000, $15,000 and $10,000. As a final example, the Russian Olympic Committee gives $135,000 (yes, that much), $81,600, and $54,400. SOURCE: The Canadian Press Jan 20, 2010.

Ted Morgan was New Zealand's first individual gold medal winner, winning the welterweight class in boxing at the 1928 Amsterdam games.

He was not, however, the first New Zealander to win a gold medal. That honour went to swimmer Malcolm Champion, winning gold as part of the Australasian 4 x 200 metre relay team at the 1912 Stockholm games.

The first New Zeland woman to win an Olympic gold medal was Yvette Williams, winning the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Games.

Quite a few athletes have competed in both the summer and winter Olympics, but only three have received medals in both. Those three are:

Eddie Eagan, United States 1932, Winter Bobsled, four-man Gold 1920, Summer Boxing, light heavyweight Gold Jacob Tullin Thams, Norway 1924, Winter Ski jumping, large hill Gold 1936, Summer Yachting, 8-meter Silver Christa Luding-Rothensburger, East Germany 1984, Winter Speed skating, 500m Gold 1988, Winter Speed skating, 1,000m ; 500m Gold, Silver 1988, Summer Cycling, 1,000m Silver

Greece always leads the ceremony, the host country is always last.

Since the Olympics began in Greece they are given the honor of being the first to walk during the opening ceremonies.

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El Jaguar Rojo de Chichen-Itza (Red Jaguar) & Paloma de la Paz (dove)

no, the gladiators were roman the Olympics were Greek

the Summer and winter Olympics are held every 4 years and over millens of people go and play and some watch the game and I don't know why go on answer.com and findout.

there were a total of 36 games in the london 2012 olympics. and they will include golf in 2016 brazil olympics

3/4's of a lap, most tracks are 400 metres. the 300 meter World record is 30.85 set in 2000 by Micheal Johnson. National High School record is 31.7 set in 1974 by Scott Ruvolo from Saddleback HS in Orange County at the Los Angeles Indoor Times.The women's record is 35.30 seconds, set by Ana Guevara in Mexico City.

Free-running is not an Olympic sport, although many people believe that it should be.

According to Baron de Coubertin: "The Olympic flag ... has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red ... This design is symbolic ; it represents the five inhabited continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time."

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Swimmer Amy Van Dyken of the United States won 4 gold medals at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and 2 at the 2000 Games in Sydney.

1) 1996 gold - 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly, 4x100 meter medley relay, 4x100 meter freestyle relay
2) 2000 gold - 4x100 meter medley relay, 4x100 meter freestyle relay

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14 or 24 not really sure

The 2010 Winter Olympics were held February 12 through February 28 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Winter Olympics occur every four years. The next Winter Games are being held in the year 2014 in Russia. And of course, it is during winter :)

Until 1992, the summer and winter Olympics were held in the same year, but the decision was made to move the winter Olympics off to the other even-numbered years, beginning with the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. That way, if you refer to, for example, "the 2014 Olympics," there is no need to specify "winter."

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No, it was the site of the 1996 Olympic games.

Mexico city, Rome, London, Paris and Munich have hosted the World Cup final and the Olympic Games.

Summer: Barcelona, Spain

Winter: Albertville, France

As of the 2008 Games, the United States has won 895 gold, 692 silver, and 602 bronze for a total of 2,189 Summer Olympic medals. This website can't tell me how much they have won in the past olympics.

Nobody "wins the Olympics". People win particular events.

I suppose you could say that the country winning most gold medals "won"

the Olympic Games.

You probably mean the summer Olympics, held in Athens in 2004.

The country that won most golds was USA.

USA also had most medals in total.

The five rings symbolise the five continents in the world.

The different colours of the rings are blue, black, red, yellow, green each flag in the world has at least one colour in the Olympic rings, in their flags

A decathlon is a two day, ten event track and field competition. The events are 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m, 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and 1500m.