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35 unusual facts about Olympic games


1992 College Baseball All-America Team

The 1992 All-American class featured three Major League Baseball All-Stars, two Olympians, one Major League Baseball record holder and a two-time World Series champion.

Australian Sailing magazine

He wasn't able to attend the award ceremony because he was covering yachting at the Olympic Games at the time.

Beijing Tiyu Guangbo

The recent focus of this radio station has been the World Cup in Germany and the Beijing Olympic Games for 2008.

Belinda Chapple

She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.

Birger Tvedt

He was a doctor for the Norwegian athletes at several world championships and Olympic Games.

Brad Schlegel

Schlegel also played for the Canadian National Team for many years, and was part of the Canadian Men's Hockey Teams that played in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympic Games, and won the Silver Medal both times.

Bud Bruner

He was also matchmaker for the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Boxing Trials and for William H. King Promotions.

Buick Century

1984 also saw an Olympic version of the Buick Century, commemorating the 1984 games in Los Angeles, California.

Cedar Crest College

Diane Moyer, former Olympic field hockey player, current chair of the psychology department

Croatian Olympic Committee

The COC organizes Croatia's representatives at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

Duluth Entertainment Convention Center

It is the largest curling venue in the United States, and has hosted two World Championships, the US Olympic Trials, and numerous National events.

Eddie Gaven

Gaven played every minute for the U.S. in the 2003 Under-17 World Championship in Finland and then became the youngest player in CONCACAF history to appear in an Olympic qualifier when he played for the U.S. Under-23 team.

Édison Méndez

He participated at the South American U-20 Championship in Paraguay in 1999, and Olympic qualifying tournament in Brazil in January 2000.

Erp, Netherlands

She is a Dutch dressage champion who won two gold medals in the 2000 and 2004 summer Olympics and four silver medals in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 summer Olympics.

Greece at the team sports international competitions

The Greece at the team sports international competitions has achieved 12 victories at the Olympic Games (1), World Championship (3) and European Championships (8).

Hayling Island Sailing Club

Nearby waters can be used as a mock-Olympic track, and regular classes are held to teach the basics of sailing.

James Enright

After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.

Japanese Olympic Committee

Japan has held the Olympic Games three times: the Summer Olympics once (1964 Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo) and the Winter Olympics twice (1972 Winter Olympics, Sapporo, and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Nagano).

John M. Phillips

John M. Phillips is the attorney for Ishika Lay and her family, who was in a prolonged coma after collapsing in an Olympic qualifying tournament.

Kevin Sylvester

From 1999 to 2006 he was a popular sportscaster for national radio sports on CBC Radio, and anchored the radio coverage for four Olympic Games.

Manon Rhéaume

An Olympic silver medalist, she achieved a number of historic firsts during her career, including becoming the first and only woman ever to play in a National Hockey League exhibition game.

Marko Marković

During his time with RTB he reported at numerous football matches and covered 40 World and European Championships, as well as The Olympic Games.

Mike van Arsdale

After college, van Arsdale won a World Cup Championship in 1991, a CISM (military) World Championship, was a two-time Olympic alternate, and a six-time member of the National Freestyle Wrestling team.

Morten Frost

During his tenure as coach, the Danish national squad achieved over 20 major international wins, including an Olympic gold medal in 1996, six gold medals and three silver medals at the European Championships in 1996, the men's singles titles at the 1995 and 1996 All England Championships, and a gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the World Championships in 1995.

Nigeria Olympic Committee

In January 2011 the NOC announced that it had chosen Loughborough University as training camps for Team Nigeria prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games, a location that would also be used by the Japanese athletes.

Power Balance

On October 28, 2010 Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes, working for Yahoo Weekend News and Independent Investigations Group (IIG), tested Power Balance bracelets for their claim that they improve balance, flexibility and strength.

Regal Classic

Regal Classic was trained by Olympic Games equestrian Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Day.

Saad Attiya

Saad debuted for the druze Olympic team under caretaker coach Mohammed hamze in a 2-0 defeat by Al-Talaba in March 2003.

Salih Sadir

The talented player from the southern city of Najaf, is one of Iraq's most gifted individuals, who excelled playing for the Olympic team in the qualifying rounds – his performances compensated for the absence of Nashat Akram in Iraq's midfield.

Scot Hollonbeck

At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 4th in the demonstration sport of Men's 1500m wheelchair.

At the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, he placed sixth in the wheelchair racing event.

The Loneliest Runner

Ten years later, John Curtis (played by Landon himself) is an Olympic marathon runner and a gold-medal-winner.

The Tradition

The Golf Channel covered the early rounds (and all four rounds in 2008 while NBC carried the Olympic Games from Beijing).

Tom Lingenfelter

An active athlete, Lingenfelter won a bronze medal in indoor sprinting at the National Masters, was Pennsylvania's champion indoor sprinter, was a Keystone Games medalist in field hockey and shooting, and won a bronze medal at the Pan American Games as a member of the United States' Olympic field hockey team.

Tore Brunborg

At the Norwegian Jazz scene he has been most recognized for the cooperation with Arild Andersen and his music for «Kristin Lavransdatter», performed to the Olympic Games at Lillehammer.


2008 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Beijing, PR China, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 17, 2008.

Ali Adnan

He was due to be the first person to represent Iraq in archery at the Olympic Games, having qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but the entire Iraqi delegation was banned from the Games by the International Olympic Committee due to Iraqi government interference in the Iraqi national Olympic Committee.

André Bicaba

Bicaba became the first athlete to represent the Republic of Upper Volta at the Olympic Games when he competed in the Men's 100 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Australia–India relations

Australia has found success mainly since the late 1970s, with the men's and women's teams winning gold medals at Olympic Games, World Cup, Champion's Trophy and Commonwealth Games meets.

Belgrave Harriers

The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.

Ben Bright

After a spell of training several outstanding swimmers, including an Olympian and Hong Kong age group record breakers, Bright accepted an opportunity to coach triathlon at Loughborough University in England.

Benjamin Howard Baker

Howard Baker represented Britain at both the 1912 and 1920 Olympic Games.

Bermuda at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Bermuda Olympic Association's president, Judy Simons said there are no plans to have Tucker Murphy withdraw due to the terrorist threats on the Olympic Games.

Bert Solomon

He was a member of the Cornwall rugby union team, which on 26 October 1908 won the Olympic silver medal for Great Britain.

Billy Richardson

At the end of that season, he represented Ireland in the Olympic Games against Holland at Portsmouth.

Bishop Feehan High School

Mark Coogan (1984): Decorated track athlete, former collegiate track star at University of Maryland, and member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team.

Buruuba

Like Johnny Weissmuller who starred in classic Tarzan films, the starring actor Shigeyoshi Suzuki was also an Olympic swimming medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Carlo Mattioli

Carlo Mattioli (born October 23, 1954 in Pergola, Pesaro e Urbino) is a retired male race walker from Italy, who represented his native country twice at the Olympic Games: 1984 and 1988.

Daly Cherry-Evans

Cherry-Evans was named after one of his English-born mother's favourite British athletes, 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games Decathlon Gold Medallist Daley Thompson.

Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Exhaustive ballot

It is also used to elect the various party nominees for President of the United States, the host city of the Olympic Games and the host of the FIFA World Cup.

Francisco Albano Barrio

Barrio competed in the Olympic Wrestling trials in ahead of the 2012 games in London where he lost by points on a close fight against Wuileixis Rivas, the winner of that fight classified directly to the Olympic Games.

Gre-No-Li

The three forwards led Sweden to Olympic gold at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London.

Herne Hill Harriers

A number of former Olympians and European champions in athletics have run for the club including Olympic medalists Joe Deakin, David Jacobs, Herbert Johnston, Ernest Webb and Thomas Humphreys, as well as Harry Green, another Olympian who held a world best in the marathon.

Hyun Jin Moon

Moon is best known for taking part in the 1988 and 1992 summer Olympic Games as a member of the South Korean equestrian team.

Jean-Marie Dedecker

Dedecker became well-known first for his long career as a judo coach, with his judokas winning a for Belgium unprecedented number of medals (among them four times Olympian gold), and then for his politics.

Jeff Conine

Though sidelined for two months by the accident, he still managed to compete in the Ironman as well as the St. Anthony's 32 mile Olympic-style race in St. Petersburg, Florida, the half Ironman at Disney and the Timberman 70.3 in New Hampshire.

Kendrys Morales

He was sent back to Cuba from Panama during the Olympic qualifying round in November 2003 for making contact with an agent.

Lázaro Vargas

Lázaro Vargas Álvarez (born January 18, 1964, in San Miguel del Padrón) is a Cuban baseball player and Olympic gold medalist.

Liberia at the Olympics

Liberia (LBR) has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1956 with the exception of 1968, 1976 and 1992, although the country has never won an Olympic medal.

McDull

After realizing his dream, McDull set himself another target: to become an Olympic champion just like female windsurfer Lee Lai Shan.

Mhardeh

Ghada Shouaa, the first Syrian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, was born in Mhardeh as well as Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch.

Nick Kisner

As an amateur boxer he accomplished (3x National Silver Gloves Championships, 2x Junior National Golden Gloves Championships, Junior Olympic Gold Medal, Ringside World Championship, Ohio State Fair Championship, Under-19 National Championship, and a National Pal Championship, where he defeated 2012 Olympian Lenroy Thompson in the finals.

Olga Šplíchalová

Olga Šplíchalová (born September 1, 1975 in Třebíč, Vysočina) is a retired female freestyle swimmer from the Czech Republic, who twice competed for her native country at the Olympic Games: in 1992 and 1996.

Olympic Broadcasting Services

It is speculated that in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, an extra ring of security was put around the trailer of Danny Boyle (the ceremony director) following "friction" between his crew and Olympic Broadcasting Services.

Paul D. Stroop

In 1928, he served as a member of U.S. gymnastic team at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam.

Paul Elvstrøm

He competed in eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988, being one of only four persons ever (the others are sailor Ben Ainslie and athletes Carl Lewis in the long jump and Al Oerter in the discus) to win four consecutive individual gold medals (1948, '52, '56, '60), first time in a Firefly, subsequently in Finns.

Reuben Jones

Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ron Roddan

Speaking in a High Court libel hearing in 1998, Roddan told the jury that a magazine article by John McVicar alleging Linford Christie took drugs to get to the top was a "fairy story", describing a suggestion that the Olympic gold medallist's impressive physique may have been due to taking steroids or other performance-enhancing banned substances as "ridiculous".

Ryan Rohlinger

He was rumored to be dating United States Olympic gymnast Chellsie Memmel however Rohlinger stated in San Francisco Chronicle that "It isn't true," Rohlinger said, "I don't even know her."

Salford Triathlon

The event was not held in 2008 because of its proximity to the Olympic Games, the absence of BBC Sport coverage, and major building work (part of MediaCityUK) close to the area usually used for transition.

Wenlock Olympian Games

In 1859 Wenlock Olympian Class sent £10 to Athens as a prize for the best runner in the Long Foot Race at the Olympic Games which was held in November that year - open only to Greek-speaking athletes.

Westmont College

Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa - Malagasy Olympic sprinter and professional Track athlete of the 1970s.

Wu Wen-chien

Wu Wen-Chien (吳文騫 born June 9, 1977) is a Taiwanese Olympic long-distance runner that represented Chinese Taipei in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in the marathon.