Olympics is a leading international sporting event featuring summer and winter sports competitions.It is held every four years. It is the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating.
2. INTRODUCTION
leading international sporting events featuring
summer and winter sports competitions
world's foremost sports competition with more than
200 nations participating
held every four years
3. SILVER WAS NUMBER
ONE
At the first Olympics in 1896
the winners were crowned with
silver.
Second place got a bronze
medal, and third place got
absolutely nothing.
4. LONGEST WRESTLING
MATCH
The longest wrestling match in
the history of the games took
11 hours and 40 minutes. It was
the Greco-Roman wrestling
semifinal in 1912, between
Martin of Russia and Alfred of
Finland. Martin won, but
couldn't even compete in the
final as he was too exhausted
from the 11-hour match.
5. MUHAMMAD ALI’S FEAR OF
FLYING
Muhammad Ali was terrified of
flying, so he wore a
parachute during his flight to the
1960 games in Rome. Ali still
won the gold, of course.
6. THE FIRST BLACK
ATHLETE
The first black athlete to win the
marathon event did it barefoot.
Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila
was the first black athlete to win
gold in the marathon, when he
outran everyone in the 1960
Olympics...with no shoes on.
7. WORLD’S YOUNGEST
OLYMPIAN
The 1900 Olympics featured a
competitor who is still unknown to
this day, and may be the youngest
ever.
The Dutch rowing team was
lacking a coxswain, so they chose
a local French boy to fill in. To this
day, no one knows the boy's
identity, and many estimate him to
have been around 10 years old.
