The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games

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1896

The first modern Olympic games were in Greece. There were silver medals for winners and bronze medals second place. There weren't any gold medals.

Multiple Choice

The first Olympic Games were in

• the USA

• Greece

• Spain

• Italy

Multiple Choice

There were gold medals in the first Olympic Games

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When was the first Olympic Games

• 1880

• 1869

• 1896

• 1900

1900

Women weren't competitors until 1900. That year there were more competitors than spectators. (žiūrovai)

1912

There was an eleven-hour-forty minute wrestling match between Martin Klein and Alfred Asikainen . It was the longest competition in Olympic history.

Multiple Choice

What sport has longest match in the Olympic Games?

• Boxing

• Karate

• Wrestling

Multiple Choice

The longest match lasted for

• forty minutes

• ten hours

• eleven hours and forty minutes

• four minutes

1916

In 1916, 1940 and 1944 there weren't any games because of the war.

Multiple Choice

There weren't any games in 1916

• True

• False

1920

There wasn't an Olympic flag until 1920. The flag of every country in the world has got one of the five Olympic colours on it.

1924

In the first winter Olympics in France, the Canadian ice hockey team were champions with 122 goals.

1936

Twelve-year-old swimmer Inge Sorensen from Denmark was the youngest medalist in Olympic history.

Multiple Choice

Inge Sorensen was a swimmer from Ethiopia .

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What sport did the youngest medalist do?

• running

• swimming

• skiing

• wrestling

1960

Abebe Bikila from Ethiopia was the first African to win gold medal after running a marathon without shoes.

Multiple Choice

Abebe Bikila was a marathon runner.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which continent was Abebe Bikila from?

• Australia

• America

• Asia

• Africa

1988

Table tennis is one of the most popular sports in the world, but it wasn't in the Olympic until 1988.

2012

Hiroshi Hoketsu was a competitor in a horse-riding competition at the age of seventy-one.

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The oldest competitor was

• 71

• 81

• 77

2016

In Rio , golf and rugby were the first events in nearly 100 years.

Multiple Choice

Golf and rugby were Olympic sports for the first time in 2012

• True

• False

2020

The Summer Olympic games in Tokyo, Japan