Olympics

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.

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."