Olympics

Usually, its a gold medal for first place, silver medal for second place, and a bronze medal for third place.

Yes, but that is very, very rare since an athlete spends so much time training for a specific event. I know of two athletes, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis of the United States, that won gold medals in the 100 meter dash and long jump. And there is Michael Phelps who won gold in the butterfly and freestyle events, although both are swimming events. If an athlete can qualify in more than one sport for the Olympics they may compete in all the sports they qualify for.

Currently in the 2012 olympics:

China has the most medals (42 medals) 3/8/12

(Extra info: Britain currently 3rd place)

However, not sure about the entire Olympic games

The IX Olympic Winter Games took place in Innsbruck, Austria in early 1964. The 1964 Summer Olympics (Games of the XVIII Olympiad) took place in Tokyo, Japan.

The modern Olympic Games began in Athens, 1896.
1896 is the year

Mainly North America because NA plays almost every sport in the world and spends a lot of time and money on the sports, but other countries may spend a lot of mony on a sport, but they dont play as much as NA does.

That was triple jump which was contested on April 6, 1896. The event winner was James Connolly of the United States.

Well These are all the countrys that are gonna be in the 2008 Olympics. Afghanistan AFG Albania ALB Algeria ALG American Samoa ASA Andorra AND Angola ANG Antigua and Barbuda ANT Argentina ARG Armenia ARM Aruba ARU Australia AUS Austria AUT Azerbaijan AZE Bahamas BAH Bahrain BRN Bangladesh BAN Barbados BAR Belarus BLR Belgium BEL Belize BIZ Benin BEN Bermuda BER Bhutan BHU Bohemia BOH Bolivia BOL Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Botswana BOT Brazil BRA British Virgin Islands IVB Brunei BRU Bulgaria BUL Burkina Faso BUR Burundi BDI Cambodia CAM Cameroon CMR Canada CAN Cape Verde CPV Cayman Islands CAY Central African Republic CAF Chad CHA Chile CHI China CHN Chinese Taipei TPE Colombia COL Comoros COM Congo CGO DR Congo COD Cook Islands COK Costa Rica CRC Côte d’Ivoire CIV Croatia CRO Cuba CUB Cyprus CYP Czech Republic CZE Czechoslovakia TCH Denmark DEN Djibouti DJI Dominica DMA Dominican Republic DOM Ecuador ECU Egypt EGY El Salvador ESA Equatorial Guinea GEQ Eritrea ERI Estonia EST Ethiopia ETH Fiji FIJ Finland FIN France FRA Gabon GAB Gambia GAM Georgia GEO Germany GER East Germany GDR West Germany FRG Ghana GHA Great Britain GBR Greece GRE Grenada GRN Guam GUM Guatemala GUA Guinea GUI Guinea-Bissau GBS Guyana GUY Nation Code Haiti HAI Honduras HON Hong Kong HKG Hungary HUN Iceland ISL India IND Indonesia INA Iran IRI Iraq IRQ Ireland IRL Israel ISR Italy ITA Jamaica JAM Japan JPN Jordan JOR Kazakhstan KAZ Kenya KEN Kiribati KIR North Korea PRK South Korea KOR Kuwait KUW Kyrgyzstan KGZ Laos LAO Latvia LAT Lebanon LIB Lesotho LES Liberia LBR Libya LBA Liechtenstein LIE Lithuania LTU Luxembourg LUX FYR Macedonia MKD Madagascar MAD Malawi MAW Malaysia MAS Maldives MDV Mali MLI Malta MLT Mauritania MTN Mauritius MRI Mexico MEX Micronesia FSM Moldova MDA Monaco MON Mongolia MGL Montenegro MNE Morocco MAR Mozambique MOZ Myanmar MYA Namibia NAM Nauru NRU Nepal NEP Netherlands NED Netherlands Antilles AHO New Zealand NZL Nicaragua NCA Niger NIG Nigeria NGR Norway NOR Oman OMA Pakistan PAK Palau PLW Palestine PLE Panama PAN Papua New Guinea PNG Paraguay PAR Peru PER Philippines PHI Poland POL Portugal POR Puerto Rico PUR Qatar QAT Romania ROU Russia RUS Rwanda RWA Saar SAA Saint Kitts And Nevis SKN Saint Lucia LCA Saint Vincent And The Grenadines VIN Samoa SAM San Marino SMR São Tomé And Príncipe STP Saudi Arabia KSA Senegal SEN Serbia SRB Seychelles SEY Sierra Leone SLE Singapore SIN Slovakia SVK Slovenia SLO Solomon Islands SOL Somalia SOM South Africa RSA Soviet Union URS Spain ESP Sri Lanka SRI Sudan SUD Suriname SUR Swaziland SWZ Sweden SWE Switzerland SUI Syria SYR Tajikistan TJK Tanzania TAN Thailand THA Timor-Leste TLS Togo TOG Tonga TGA Trinidad And Tobago TRI Tunisia TUN Turkey TUR Turkmenistan TKM Uganda UGA Ukraine UKR United Arab Emirates UAE United States Of America USA USA UK United Kingdom Uruguay URU Uzbekistan UZB Vanuatu VAN Venezuela VEN Vietnam VIE Virgin Islands ISV Yemen YEM Yugoslavia YUG Zambia ZAM Zimbabwe ZIM

because the Olympics is like a world cup in football so if someone wins it is like a world cup.and because if someone wins a gold medal they will know that they are good athletes and so will other people.

For each of the 5 continents in the world.

The Olympic Games flame is always on the constant run every 4 years around the country that runs it for that year; however in 2008 the start point the flame was in was Beijing!

26 miles 264 yards. Used to be exactly 26 miles, but at a previous London olympics the course was extended to allow the young princessess watch the race.

The Olympic Games were founded in 776 BCE, during the Greek Archaic Period, and were intended to unite the Greek communities culturally and reinforce a shared Greek, or Panhellenic, heritage. They were also held to honor one of there gods, Zeus.

Modern-day Olympics are used to promote the idea of sound mind and body, and to create friendly relations among nations.

Ummmm . . . . yes they do -- they have for all games through 2004. You can find a website showing each of these medals. I wanted to know about the 2008 games. Um, no I actuallly think they don't but I think they should though don't you?

There is no specific corresponding continent towards each of the rings. One or more of the 5 colours (blue, red, black, yellow and green)are included in each of the flags that participate in the Olympics.

It can be defined as follow a sport that has been recognised by the olympic committee and will or has been undertaken at an olympic event. Many sports that appear in the olympics have their own sporting events out side that of teh Games

The 2004 Summer Olympics were held in Athens, but unlike the first answer,

the first Olympics were held in Olympia not in Athens.

There are 21 Winter [ranked] sporting events

Mary Denise Rand, (born 10 February 1940) is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.

Teams from Russia competed in the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1912 and 1994 to the present. Totals for those Olympics can be given. After the Soviet Union was created in 1922 it would be until 1952 before Russian athletes competed again in the Olympics. Since Russian athletes competed for the Soviet Union, a breakout of those medals won by Russians is very difficult if not impossible to find. As of the 2008 Games, Russia has won 251 medals in the Summer Olympics (86 gold, 80 silver, 85 bronze) and 76 medals in the Winter Olympics (33 gold, 24 silver, 19 bronze).

Japan has held the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 and the Winter Olympics in 1972 in Sapporo and in 1998 in Nagano i found this on...web-japan.org/factsheet/pdf/OLYMPICS

At the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, sports that only men participated in were baseball and boxing. Baseball has been discontinued in Olympic competition and starting in 2012, there will be women's boxing competition. At the 2012 Summer Games in London, there will be no men only sports. why