Here are 50 facts about the Olympics to get you PUMPED for the next Olympic Games!
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1) The earliest Olympic games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 BC until 393 AD
They ended because they got banned for being a pagan festival celebrating the Greek god Zeus
in 1894, French educator Baron Pierre de Cubertin proposed to revive the ancient tradition and then boom! The Olympic Summer Games… but it took 4 years to pull it together
2) At the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896, Greece won the most medals at 47
3) The Winter Games were the add-on… The first winter games were held in France in 1924
4) The country to win the most medals for the winter games is Norway at 329 medals, of which 118 of them are gold
5) For the Summer Games, the country to win the most metals is the United States with 2,400
6) The five Olympic rings represents the five major regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceana
7) The colors of the Olympic rings have a reason…every national flag in the world in includes one of the five colors which are blue, yellow, black, green, and red
8) The Olympics were held every four years up until 1994 when the winter and summer games have alternated every two years… I’m assuming this has to do with making more money… but hey I’m all for it!
9) The very first Olympics every covered by US television was the 1960 summer games in Rome… that’s not very long ago considering there were 136 years where this didn’t happen…all about that telegraph life
10) No country in the southern hemisphere has ever hosted a winter games… come on Australia, get it together bro! (I looked it up, it does snow there)
11) The 1896 Olympic games had only 14 events. Today, there are 300!
12) The tradition of giving gold, silver and bronze medals started in 1904
13) A total of 14,713 medals have been awarded in the history of the summer Olympics
14) During the first Olympics in Greece, the winner was awarded two items: a silver coin and an olive wreath. Second place got a copper coin and a laurel branch
15) Things got a little stingy at the 1900 Olympic games where winners were awarded trophies instead of medals... some trends don’t last
16) The summer games of 1904 were held in St. Louis, Missouri and had the US scoop 239 of the available 280 medals
17) At every Olympic games, it is expected that the US, Great Britain, and Russia will compete for the largest haul of medals
18) Kenya is known for winning middle and long distance track races. In the 2012 London Olympic games, Kenya won 11 medals in only 6 events… all of them track races
19) Figure skating was initially part of the Summer Olympics. Before the Winter Games, men’s, women’s, and pairs figure skating events were part of the 1908 and 1920 summer Olympics.
20) Olympic champions last received solid gold medals in 1912
21) Olympic runner up medals aren’t much different than the winning medals. Gold medals are made with 93 silver, 6 percent copper and only 6 grams of gold
22) the 2012 summer games were 17 days long, the summer games staged in London in 1908 spanned 188 days! More than half a year …imagine the marketing budgets for major companies!
23) the first Olympian to fail a drug test was busted for drinking beer. In 1968 the Swedish Olympian Hans Gunnar Liljenwall tested positive for a banned substance… two beers, he said he downed them to calm his nerves before his pistol shoot
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