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unusual facts about The Olympic Games



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.


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12-metre class

The 12 Metre Class was used in the Olympic Games of 1908, 1912 and 1920 but few boats participated in these events.

AIBA

All India Biotech Association, a non-profit biotechnology trade organization (Except for the olympic games 2012 in London).

António Zeferino

The following year at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Zeferino made history along with Henry Andrade and Isménia do Frederico by becoming the first athletes to represent the tiny African nation at the Olympic Games.

Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

In 1998, gold medalist Randy Barnes was tested positive for androstenedione (an over-the-counter supplement famously used by Mark McGwire), and was subsequently suspended from competition in the Olympic Games for life.

Boxing in Mongolia

Mongolian boxers first participated at the Olympic Games in 1972.

Carl Osburn

Prior to Michael Phelps, his tally of eleven medals made him the all-time leading male medal winner for the United States at the Olympic Games.

Cook Islands at the Olympics

The Cook Islands are the only one of the three dependent territories of New Zealand to compete at the Olympic Games, Niue and Tokelau having not yet done so to date.

Danny Ecker

At the Olympic Games he finished eighth in 2000 and fifth in 2004.

Denys Puech

1881 and 1883 saw his first successes, when he twice won the second prize in the prix de Rome contest, for his Tyrtaeus singing the Messanians (Tyrtée chantant les Messéniennes) and Diagoras dying for joy on learning of his two victorious children's triumph at the Olympic Games (Diagoras mourant de joie en apprenant le triomphe de ses deux enfants vainqueurs aux Jeux Olympiques) respectively.

Dionysius I of Syracuse

He also posed as an author and patron of literature; his poems, severely criticized by Philoxenus, were hissed at the Olympic games; but having gained a prize for a tragedy on the Ransom of Hector at the Lenaea at Athens, he was so elated that he engaged in a debauch which proved fatal.

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.

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.

Grande-Digue, New Brunswick

Joël Bourgeois, 3000m steeplechase runner, 2-time competitor at the Olympic Games and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Hilding Ekelund

Among Ekelund's more notable buildings are the Taidehalli Art Gallery (together with Jarl Eklund) in Helsinki, Töölö Church in Helsinki, the Finnish Embassy in Moscow, and a number of buildings for the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, including the Olympic Rowing Stadium, the Olympic Velodrome, and the Olympic Games village.

India at the 1920 Summer Olympics

It was the first time that the nation had sent a team to the Olympic Games since a single athlete (Norman Pritchard) competed for India twenty years earlier (see India at the 1900 Summer Olympics).

Isménia do Frederico

Three years later at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Do Frederico made history along with António Zeferino and Henry Andrade by becoming the first athletes to represent the tiny African nation at the Olympic Games.

Italy men's national water polo team

Although a domestic league was soon established, the Italian national water polo team did not first compete at the Olympic Games until the 1920 Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, where they were forced to forfeit their first round match, before losing 5–1 to Greece and being eliminated.

Jack Tompkins

He worked for more than 30 years for American Airlines in Detroit and became a civic leader in the area, working to bring the Olympic Games to Detroit from the 1940s to the 1960s and founding the Great Lakes Invitational hockey tournament in 1965.

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).

Jo Ankier

She starred in the video for the successful London Olympic Bid, running through the sights of London inspiring people to "Back the Bid" and win London the Olympic Games.

Julio Enrique Monagas

In 1952, a Puerto Rican delegation was sent to the Olympic Games in Helsinki.

Kantonsschule Solothurn

Carla Stampfli (born 1984), professional swimmer with several Swiss records and participation in the Olympic Games in Athens 2004

Knesebeck

Lars Nieberg (* 24. Juli 1963): Winner in the Olympic Games, Equestrian / Jumping

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Liu Changchun

In May 1932, Liu proclaimed that as a Chinese person, he would never represent the puppet state of Manchukuo in the Olympic Games in Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese newspaper.

Margo Scharten-Antink

In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool in Maremma").

Mark Belger

In 1980, Belger was set to run for the United States in the Olympic Games, yet missed the opportunity due to the boycott of the games that took place.

Nikko Patrelakis

He also composed and produced three themes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, performed by him and London Philharmonic Orchestra, for the parade of the Greek flag and the Greek team, in the opening ceremonies, and for the entrance of the athletes of the world in the Olympic Stadium, for the closing ceremonies.

Olympic emblem

It is the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to approve Olympic emblems for the Olympic games.

Olympic poster

It is the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to approve Olympic poster for the Olympic games.

Rifaat Turk

The following year he made his debut for the Israel national team, and also became the first Arab to represent Israel at the Olympic games when he played in the football tournament of the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Royal Canoe Club

Along with Brabants, the club membership includes several world championship medallists (among them Alan Williams, Grayson Bourne, Chris Canham, Steve Jackson, Jeremy West) and Ian Wynne who won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.

Spain at the 2006 Winter Olympics

María José Rienda entered the Olympics having won three World Cup events on the season, including the last giant slalom before the Olympic Games, but couldn't repeat this form in Turin, as she finished 13th in the giant slalom.

Spanish Baja

In 1992 the Spanish Baja was cancelled as it coincided with the Olympic games in Barcelona.

Steenbek-Projensdorf

Today Steenbek-Projensdorf is bounded by the Olof-Palme-Damm between Suchsdorf and Steenbek-Projensdorf, furthermore by the Kiel Canal up to the bridge of Holtenau, by the B 503 - a freeway built in 1972 due to the Olympic Games - up to the tunnel junction with the Steenbeker Weg and lastly by the Projensdorfer Straße up to the Westring including the Holstein-Stadion.

Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's sailors 100 metre freestyle

The exclusionary nature of this race is a rare phenomenon in the Olympic Games, which in general include only events open to all competitors; Bill Mallon, in his book about the 1896 Games, says of the event that "its inclusion in the Olympic records is dubious at best".

Torsten Carleman

of the athlete Eric Lemming who won four golden medals and three bronze at the Olympic Games.

Wales at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

Wales made their Commonwealth Games debut in Hamilton in 1930 and are one of only six nations to have taken part in every Games since then.Since Wales cannot compete at the Olympic Games as a separate nation, the Commonwealth Games provides them its only opportunity to compete in a major international multi-sport event.

Wang Fengchun

Following his return to China after the completion of the Olympic Games, Wang was rebuked by Chinese curling officials for wearing a U.S. team cap at the Beijing Capital International Airport.

Yevgeniy Meleshenko

He also competed at the World Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007 as well as the Olympic Games in 2004 and the 2008 without reaching the final.

Zhanna

Zhanna Pintusevich-Block (born 1972), sprinter who has competed in the Olympic Games