i have to do a presentation for school, i don’t want it to be the general, olympics hisorty, the symbols and the meaning of cerimony. What something that went down in histroy that was at the olympics?
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i have to do a presentation for school, i don’t want it to be the general, olympics hisorty, the symbols and the meaning of cerimony. What something that went down in histroy that was at the olympics?
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The very first Olympics was won by a dude named Coroibos. At that time the Olympics were only one event. The race. It was a sprint of about 140 meters. So the 100 and the 200 are the most important events in the Olympics. That makes Usain Bolt the Olympic champion, overall, since he won both.
Here is some other Olympics trivia that I know:
Nero made violin-playing into an Olympic event, so he could compete and, of course, be declared winner by judges who didn’t wanna be thrown to the lions.
Mary Lou Retton is short even for a gymnast, 4′11″ in 1984.
John Ngugi in Seoul in 1988 was one of the only men ever to win the 5000 with a surge tactic. With the pace slow, he decided to make a huge surge and opened up a 50 meter lead with still 3000 m left. A very risky tactic, it paid off because there was still nobody in the pack willing to take the pace. Eventually one dude tried to catch him and got to within 30 meters, but then he was outkicked for his efforts.
In Atlanta in 1996, the identity of the torch-lighter was kept secret until he stepped out to light the torch. They would only reveal that it was a former US olympian. Nobody could guess who. Then out walks Muhammad Ali, who was still able to light the torch despite the effects of Parkinson’s.
In Rome, or was it Mexico City, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the Olympic marathon without any shoes on. Later he said he had shoes, but he couldn’t find them, and had to run barefoot instead.
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Bomb in Atlanta. Or Michael Phelps record in this past olympics. Look up Carl Lewis.
Well… Jesse Robinson winning all that gold back in the dark times of segregation was pretty big. >>
1932 L.A Games – the first 800 m for women was run. Lina Radke won it and Hitomi Kinue was second. The time was 2.16 min. Both runners collapsed after winning, so distance running for women was banned till about 1964. Hitomi Kinue was a multiple world record holder from Japan. Stella Walsh won the 100m for women and accused the second runner of being a man. Later she died in a fire in Australia and they found she was a man. Stella was American. Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrickson won three golds and later became a famous golfer.
1924 Paris – Harold Abrahams won the 100 m, Eric Liddle won the 400 m both of Britain. It was made into Chariots of Fire movie.
1936 Berlin – Jesse Owens demolished the Aryan supremacy myth by winning 4 golds, Major Dhyan Chand (India) won his third field hockey gold and refused a post in the German army by Hitler.
1948 London – The Hurrying Haus Frau Fanny Blankers Koen from Holland won 4 golds. First for a woman.
1952 Helsinki – USSR joined the Olympics. Bob Mathais won the Decathlon for the second time. Paavo Nurmi lit the Olympic flame with Hans Kohelmainen.
1956 Melbourne – the Equestrian events were held at Stockholm because of a quarantine Down Under. Betty Cutberth won 3 golds in athletics. Larissa Latynina won 4 golds in gymnastics. Dawn Fraser won her first 100 m freestyle gold.
1960 Rome – Africa got it’s first gold from Abebe Bikila in the marathon running barefoot. Russia won the football gold with Lev Yahsin in the goal. Cassius Clay won gold in boxing. Lazslo Papp won his third gold in boxing. Emil and Dana Zatopek got the first husband and wife double. Dawn Fraser broke the 1 min barrier in 100m freestyle. Wilma Rudolph won the 100 m. She had been afflicted with polio as a child.
1964 Tokyo – The happy games. A baby born the day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, lit the flame. A student suggested that all the athletes should walk in together during the closing ceremony. It rained most of the time. Agnes Keleti of Hungary became the oldest gymnast to win gold at 35. Bikila won his second marathon.
1968 Mexico – High altitude, plenty of records in jumps and sprints. Bob Beaman in the Long Jump, Jim Hines in the 100 m, Kip Keino in the 1500 m, Wyomia Tyus in the 100 m. USSR invaded Czechoslovakia. Vera Cslavska got 4 gold in gymnastics. Mary Peters of Great Britain won the Pentathlon. The black power salute by Tommie Smith on winning the 200 m.
1972 Munich – first mascot Waldi the Dachshund was introduced. There was the massacre of Israeli athletes. Britain won the gold in the 3 day event (International Velvet movie). E. Germany started it’s domination. Renate Stetcher won the 100 m gold. Shane Gould (Aus) won 3 swimming golds. Mark Spitz won 7 swimming golds. Pakistan hockey team tied the bronze medal to their shoes and were thrown out. Olga Korbut (the Munchkin from Munchen) won three golds in gymnastics. Russia won the basketball gold in the last quarter of a second.
1976 Montreal – Nadia Comaneci scored the perfect 10 in gymnastics 7 times. Shun Fujimoto dismounted from the Roman Rings with a fractured leg and got Japan team gold. Greg Louganis as a teen got a silver in diving. There was an African boycott because of apartheid policies. Cornelia Ender of GDR won four golds in swimming.
1980 Moscow – West boycott. North Rhodesia went back as Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe won the first women’s hockey. Teofilo Stevenson of Cuba got his third gold in boxing in Super Heavy Weight. Alexander Dityatin won eight medals in gymnastics ( a first). British athletes took part despite the boycott. Alan Wells won the 100m, Daley Thomson the decathlon, Seb Coe the 1500m. Mascot was Misha the bear. Had one of the best opening ceremonies. Waldemar Cyrpinski or E.Germany won his second marathon. Tatyana Kazankina won the 800 m and 1500 m golds in running. Marita Koch won in the 400 m. Lyudmilla Kondratyeva won the 100 m over Marlies Gohr of GDR.
1984 L.A – Eastern bloc boycott. The Mary Decker/ Zola Budd clash in the 3000m (Maricica Puica of Romania won). Romania came despite the boycott. The famous clash between Mary Lou Retton and Ekatrina Szabo. China took part in their first Games. Carl Lewis got 4 golds. Daley Thompson won his second Decathlon. Ulrike Meyfarth of the West Germany won the high jump after winning it as a teen in 1972. The opening ceremony saw the flying man. Li Ning was China’s first gold medalist in gymnastics. He won 3 gold. Nawal el Moutwakel was surprise winner of the new 400 m hurdles for women. She was from Morocco.
1988 Seoul – Ben Johnson’s 100 m and doping scandal. Flo Jo won 3 golds and one silver. Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board and had stitches and came and won it. He was HIV positive then. The U.S Dream Team won the basketball. Kristin Otto of East Germany won 6 golds in swimming. The clash between Daniella Silivas and Yelena Chuchunova in gymnastics was great. Kristina Egerzegi became the youngest winner in swimming from Hungary (200 m back stroke). Tamsz Darnyi a partially blind swimmer from Hungary won two golds. Jackie Joyner Kersee set a world record in the Heptathlon. Steffi Graf won the tennis gold.
1992 Barcelona – saw paralympic Antonio Rebello light the flame with a flaming arrow. Vitaly Scherbo of the CIS (USSR broke up) won 5 golds in gymnastics. Gail Devers was surprise 100 m winner. She fell at the last hurdle and ended up 5th in the 100 m hurdles. Paraskevi Patoulido won it (first Greek).
1996 Atlanta – there was a bomb blast outside the stadium. One person died. Carl Lewis won his 4th Long Jump gold. Kerri Strug won the team gymnastics gold with a fractured heel for the U.S. Micheal Johnson set a world record in the 200 m. Mohd. Ali lit the flame with shaking hands with Janet Evans (he has Parkinson’s Disease). Kristina Egerzegi won her 5th individual gold in the 200m backstroke. The stadium was dug up and sold after the Games. Nova Kneebone Paris became the first aborigine Australian to win gold in hockey. Andre Agassi and Lindsay Davenport won the tennis golds.
2000 Sydney – the best Games ever. Kathy Freeman won the 400 m gold (the most watched race).
1994 Winter Games at Lillehammer – before the games Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the knee by Tonya Harding’s husband to prevent her qualifying for the figure skating. Oksana Baiul of Russia won it. Kerrigan was second. The games were held after 1992 so that the next winter games would not be held the same year as the summer games.
1988 Sarajevo Winter Olympics – Katrina Witt of GDR and U.S skater (forget the name) both chose Bizeth’s Carmen music. Katrina Witt won. Bonnie Blair won 3 golds in speed skating.
I know lots.