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unusual facts about Olympic sports



Amateur Sports Act of 1978

The Amateur Sports Act of 1978, signed by President Jimmy Carter, establishes a United States Olympic Committee and provides for national governing bodies for each Olympic sport.

Mineral King

Disney had also met renowned University of Denver and Olympic ski coach Willy Schaeffler, and together they developed the village and mountain resort plans.

Morgan Beck

Morgan Beck legally changed her name to Morgan Beck Miller after marrying Olympic skiing champion Bode Miller.

Shooting ranges in the United States

Both skeet and trap are Olympic sports (or, more precisely, are disciplines of an Olympic sport that are contested in the Summer Olympics), and are practiced by many bird hunters to sharpen their marksmanship.


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Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Dan Kellner

“When I was 13, I had a video game called ‘Summer Games,’ with all the Olympic Sports on it, even fencing," said Kellner. "I couldn’t make the fencing game work very well. So, I asked my mother about fencing, and she said that my high school offered it, and that I should go and see the coach. The coach turned out to be Olympic Armorer Ted Li.”

Eladio Martínez

In 1948 was invited to the Olympic Games in London, England, sponsored by Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, to make up for the Paraguayan absence in Olympic sports.

Ernie Vandeweghe

Dr. Vandeweghe has also served as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and served on the Olympic Sports Commission under President Gerald Ford, where he assisted with development of two key pieces of sports legislation--Title IX and the 1976 Amateur Athletic Act.

George Raveling

While at Washington State, Raveling was an assistant coach for the USA team at the 1979 Pan American Games and the West Regional coach at the 1979 U.S. Olympic Sports Festival.

Hefei Olympic Sports Center Stadium

Hefei Olympic Sports Center Stadium is a football stadium in Hefei, China.

Irving Dardik

In 1980, following the Lake Placid Olympic Games he helped direct the first Olympic Sports Medicine Conference (Feb 26 through 29) in Boston.

Razlog

He has designed Universiada Hall (1961), Olympic Sports Complex in Accra, Ghana (1961), the building of the Bulgarian Embassy in Moscow (1977), Boyana residence (1974), National Historical Museum (1974 former government residence-Boyana) and many memorial complexes.

Tom Byer

Tom later played for the University of South Florida and was a member of the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival.

Women's sports

This large pool of female athletes enabled the U.S. to consistently rank among the top nations in women's Olympic sports, and female Olympians from skater Peggy Fleming (1968) to Mary Lou Retton (1986) became household names.