Olympics

There were no Winter Olympics in 2012. The United Kingdom hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics.

No, Michelle did not participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Instead, she focused on her education and received a bachelor's degree in international studies from the University of Denver in 2009 and then enrolled at Tufts University to start graduate classes in international studies.

For the 2012 London Olympics, the torch traveled 8,000 miles. It passed through 1,000 cities in 70 days, including Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Belfast, Aberdeen, and Newcastle.source: totalprosports.com

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The only competing continent that has not hosted a Summer Olympics Games is Africa. There have been Olympics held in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia. There was also no African city that had hosted the FIFA World Cup until 2010, so a future African venue for the Olympics is not impossible.

The only continent not represented in the Olympics is Antarctica, which has only scientists as permanent residents, and is by treaty an international scientific preserve.

Kieren Perkins and Susie O'Neil are famous swimmers and that's what sport they made their names in.

It was in 1900 when women were allowed to participate in the Olympics. The 1900 Summer Olympics were held in Paris, France.

Chamonix, France in 1924
The first Winter Olympic games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.

1) California - 3 - 1932 Summer Games and 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley.

2) New York - 2 - 1932 Winter Games and 1980 Winter Games, both in Lake Placid.

3) Georgia - 1 - 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta.

4) Missouri - 1 - 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis.

5) Utah - 1 - 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

9 ... the gold medalists were ...

1) Kelly Holmes - women's 800 meter run and 1500 meter run.

2) Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Jason Gardner, Mark Lewis-Francis - men's 4x100 meter relay.

3) Bradley Wiggins - men's 4000 meter individual pursuit cycling.

4) Chris Hoy - men's 1000 meter time trial cycling.

5) Leslie Law - individual three day event equestrianism.

6) Ben Ainslie - men's one person dinghy sailing.

7) Sarah Ayton, Shirley Robertson, Sarah Webb - women's three person keelboat sailing.

8) Ed Coode, James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, Steve Williams - men's coxless fours rowing.

In history - 1) Dawn Fraser - Won gold medals in the 100 meter freestyle in 1956, 1960, and 1964. She was the first swimmer to win the same event in three consecutive Olympics.

2) Shirley Strickland - 7 Olympic medals, including 3 gold (80 meter hurdles twice (1952, 1956), 4x100 meter relay (1956)). She has won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in Athletics and was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic medal.

3) Marjorie Jackson - first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal (100 meter dash in 1952).

4) Teddy Flack - first Australian gold medalist winning the 800 meter run and 1,500 meter run in 1896.

5) Shane Gould - won 3 gold medals in 1972 in the 200 meter individual medley, 400 meter freestyle, and 200 meter freestyle. She was 15 years old at the time.

6) Ian Thorpe - 5 gold medals in swimming in the 2000 and 2004 Games.

7) Sarah Durack - first Australian woman to win a gold medal at the Olympics (1912 - 100 meter freestyle). Australian Mina Wylie won the silver in the event.

8) Nova Peris - first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal (1996 - field hockey).

9) Cathy Freeman - first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal in an individual event (400 meter run).

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.