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5 unusual facts about Olympiad


Albert Simonson

He was one of the strongest American players of the 1930s, and was part of the American team which won the gold medals at the 1933 Chess Olympiad.

This earned him selection to the United States chess Olympiad team at age 18.

Chinaman, Laundryman

It was performed two more times, once in Philadelphia for the Society of Contemporary Music, and again at the First American Worker’s Music Olympiad for a large audience of leftist workers.

London Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics made London the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads.

Nick Allott

Allott was a member of the Cultural Olympiad Board 2012, a trustee of The Foundation for Sports and the Arts 1992-2012, and is currently a Director of the Roundhouse Trust , the Oxford School of Drama, and since 2005 has been Chair of the Soho Theatre, one of the UK’s few theatres specifically producing new plays by and running workshops with new and first time playwrights.


1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad

The 1931 Workers' Olympiad was the third edition of International Workers' Olympiads.

41st Chess Olympiad

The managing director of the Olympiad is Børge Robertsen; chairmen of the board have been Henrik Andenæs, then Herman Kristoffersen.

A Beautiful Mind

Beautiful Young Minds, a documentary following a British team of mathematical competitors (on 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad)

AIME

American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a mathematics test used to determine people who can compete in the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad

Anne Sunnucks

Sunnucks represented England several times in Olympiads and team matches, including Great Britain vs. USSR 1954, the Anglo-Dutch match in 1965, and top board for the British Chess Federation (BCF) team at the 1966 Women's Chess Olympiad at Oberhausen.

Bijective numeration

This was the system used to reckon the year based on the four-year Olympiads, so for instance 480 BCE (the date of the Battle of Thermopylae) would be written ἔτει αʹ Ὀλυμπιάδος οδʹ, that is, the 1st year of the 74th Olympiad.

Daniel Fridman

He returned to the Olympiad team as first board in 2004 (Calvià) and in 2006 (Turin).

David Lett

The Eyrie Vineyards 1975 South Block Reserve Pinot Noir shocked much of the wine world when it showed very well in the Wine Olympiad ("Wine Olympics"), first in Paris in 1979 and then in Burgundy the following year.

Fiji Chess Federation

In 1988, the Federation using its own funds and with some member contributions, sent a team to the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Golaniad

The ending "-ad" ("-ada" in Romanian) was used ironically, since many of Ceauşescu's Communist manifestations had endings like this, for instance the annual national sporting event Daciad (in order to compare them either with an epic, like the Iliad or, rather, with the international Olympiad).

Harry Usher

When he was practicing law, he met his client Peter Ueberroth, the future chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad.

Hover Chamber Choir

Hover received the Gold Medal at the International Choir Olympiad in Linz, Austria in 2000, became a prize winner at the International Competition in Tours, France, received diplomas at the International Polyphonic Music Festival in Arezzo, Italy in 1997.

ICCF U.S.A.

This was the Final Olympiad III team tourney in which the USSR was invited also to enter a team for the first time.

Indian National Physics Olympiad

The Indian National Physics Olympiad (INPhO for short) is an Olympiad in Physics held in India.

International Mathematical Olympiad selection process

IMO team selection in Germany is based on the main national mathematical competitions: The Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik (BWM, the former west German olympiad), the Deutsche Mathematik-Olympiade (DeMO, the former east German olympiad), and Jugend forscht (a research competition).

John de Rantau

Inspired by Yohanes Surya, trainer of Indonesia's International Physics Olympiad team, the film followed a young Madurese child named Arief who searches for his mother through the Olympiad.

Justin Michael Jenkins

In 2006, Jenkins was invited by Susan Polgar (former World Chess Champion and Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist) after reading about his chess collection to be her full-time web Designer, web master, and artist.

Kong Hwa School

The school has been achieving awards in the University of New South Wales' International Competitions, and the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools.

London Olympics

The 1908 Summer Olympics (the Games of the IV Olympiad) were the fourth modern Olympic Games and the third to be hosted outside of Athens, Greece.

Lorenzo Lauria

World Mind Sports Games: Open Teams 2008 — successor to the quadrennial Olympiad

Mapúa Cardinals

The MIT chess team has produced the likes of Eugene Torre, Asia's first grandmaster as well as International Master Renato Naranja, both of whom represented the country in the 1972 Chess Olympiad.

Marcelo Branco

Among other successes, he was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, and World Open pairs Championship in New Orleans 1978 and Geneva 1990.

Mark Bluvshtein

A couple of months later, Bluvshtein raised his International rating above 2500, completing the requirements for the GM title, and he received it at age 16 at the Calvià Olympiad, where he made a further Grandmaster norm, for good measure!

Michael Stean

In the first of his five Chess Olympiads at Nice in 1974, he won the prize for best game of the Olympiad, for his effort against Walter Browne.

Michele Godena

He has played many times for his country's Olympiad team and at Elista in 1998 posted an impressive 66.7% board 2 score.

North Carolina Science Olympiad

An article was published in the Journal of Chemical Education in January 1978 documenting the success of recruiting students through Science Olympiad.

Ortvin Sarapu

In addition to Bogolyubov, other world-class players whom Sarapu played include World Champions Bobby Fischer (a loss at the Sousse 1967 Interzonal), Garry Kasparov (a loss at the Lucerne 1982 Olympiad), and Boris Spassky (a draw at Wellington 1988), and perennial World Championship candidate Viktor Korchnoi (a draw at the Sousse Interzonal).

Parade College

Tony Sneazwell, Australian high-jumper, 1964 Tokyo Olympiad, 1968 Mexico Olympiad

Phlegon of Tralles

His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Eusebius' Chronicle, Photius and George Syncellus.

Po Leung Kuk Tang Yuk Tien College

It holds different activities each year, including Sudoku competition and mathematics olympiad competition for form 2 students.

Raymond Keene

He represented England four times at the Students' Olympiad (Örebro 1966, Harrachov 1967, Ybbs 1968 and Dresden 1969) and four times at the European Team Championships (Bath 1973, Moscow 1977, Skara 1980 and Plovdiv 1983).

Samuil Vainshtein

He also shared 4th at Moscow 1920 ("Chess Olympiad", B tournament), and tied for 8-10th at Moscow 1927 (Peter Romanovsky won).

Socialist Workers' Sport International

Discussions lingered on within the Lucerne International, but after communist sportsmen had made a public protest at a German Workers Sports Festival in Karlsbad in 1924, it was decided that the Sportintern would be barred from the Workers Olympiad.

Sports Ground, Kiev

The program of the Olympiad included such sports as track and field, marathon, soccer, wrestling, weight-lifting, fencing, swimming, gymnastics, equestrianism, bicycle and motorcycle racing along the Kiev – Chernihiv – Kyiv route.

Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics

The Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics (UOI) is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students who live in Ukraine.

United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad

In 2009, two UK schools, the Manchester Grammar School and Downlands Community School, took part as guests in the Irish competition, and the winning team represented the UK at the International Olympiad.


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