Top 25 Interesting Facts About Olympics

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival, held every four years. The ultimate goals of the Olympics are to cultivate human beings through sport and contribute to world peace. Summer Games and Winter Games are held separately.

The Top 25 Interesting facts about Olympics are below:

1. Only four athletes have won medals in both the Winter and the Summer Olympics. Only one of them, Christa Ludinger-Rothenburger, won awards in the same year.

2. The official languages of the games are English and French, complemented by the official language of the host country

3. From 1912-1948, artists participated in the Olympics: Painters, sculptors, architects, writers, and musicians competed for medals in their respective fields.

4. The unlit Olympic torch has also been taken to space several times.

5. The 2012 London Games were the first Olympics in which all participating countries sent female athletes.

6. The five rings of the Olympic symbol – designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, co-founder of the modern Olympic Games – represent the five inhabited continents of the world.

7. The six colors – blue, yellow, black, green, red, and white background – were chosen because evnation'son's flag contains at least one of them. The five Olympic rings are symbolic of the five continents, and the colors were chosen because they all appear on the flags of all the competing nations around the world.

8. The Olympic Games have been hosted by 23 different countries. Today'say's Olympic Gold Medal is made almost entirely from silver with approximately 6 grams of gold to meet the standard laid out in the Olympic Charter. The medals for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo were made from 80,000 tons of recycled electronics. The Togames'mes' gold medal weighs about 556 grams, which means an Olympic medal made of pure gold would cost close to $32,000 based on current market prices.

10. Only three modern Olympic Games have been canceled, The games were canceled due to World War I (1916) and World War II (1940, 1944)

11. Medal winners are not only inducted into the thnation'son's history and Olympic history, but they are also honored at the Olympic stadium of tyear'sar's tournament. Their names are engraved on the stadium walls, allowing their legacy to be written in stone.

12. In the ancient Olympics, there was just one medal - gold for the winner. In the advent of the modern Olympic Games, gold, silver, and bronze medals were all awarded to the top three competitors in each event.

13. Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon at the Rome Olympic Games in 1960. Amazingly he did it without the benefit of footwear. Running barefoot for the painstaking 26-mile run, Bikila became the first African in history to win a gold medal.

14. In the first modern Olympic Games of 1896, there were no gold medals.

15. In the 1900 Summer Olympics, live pigeons were used in archery events.

16. The United States has hosted the Summer Olympics four times: twice in Los Angeles (1932 and 1984), St. Louis (1904), and Atlanta (1996).

17. Besides being the world'sld's biggest sporting event, the Olympic Games celebrate the human spirit–togetherness, fairness, excellence and world peace. Its traditions symbolize oneness and connect the technologically advanced modern age to an ancient but glorious past. Thousands of athletes worldwide give their all to win a medal at the event, which is held every four years. The participants script history with their grit while the Games themselves tell a story of their own.

18. It was the only time in the history of the games that live animals were killed for sport. Pigeon-shooting was an event of the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.

19. They cut the medals in half and fused one half of the silver with that of the bronze to make what is today known" as "the medals of a friend "hiNishida'sda's half-bronze and half-silver medal are displayedJapan'san's Waseda University.

20. The 1900 Paris Olympics were the first Games which witneswomen'sen's participation in the events. But it was only in the 2012 London Olympics where every participating nation had women athletes in their contingent. At the same Games, Judoka Wojdan Shaherkani of Saudi Arabia became the first woman to participate in the Olympics.

21. Figure skating is the oldest sport on the Olympic Winter Games program but was introduced during the 1908 Summer Games held in London. It was held once more in a summer edition — the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. It has since been part of the Winter Olympics, starting with the first edition held in 1924 at Chamonix.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will witness the addition of four new events to the Olympic calendar. These are karate, sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing. It will also be the first time since 2008 that baseball and softball are part of the Olympics.

22. The 2020 Tokyo Games are the first in history in which medals made of recycled materials are being handed out. Under "he "Tokyo 2020 Medal Proj" ct," authorities collected used small electronic devices from the people of Japan, which were then used in the creation of the approximately 5,000 medals, which Junichi Kawanishi has designed. People in Japan were asked to donate their disused electronics such as mobile phones to contribute to the Olympics and Paralympics awards.

23. The torch used for the Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay resembles cherry blossoms – a renowned symbol of Japan. The relay began in March this year to coincide with the cherry blossom season and has traveled all across Japan. The torch is made from a single sheet of metal using the same advanced technology that produces the shinkansen trains.

24. Throughout the 22 Summer Olympics, Japan has won 439 medals, including 41 at the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Games, the highest medal count for the country. Of the 41 medals, 12 were gold, setting another record high for Japan. On the other hand, Japan has won just 58 awards in total from all previous Winter Games.

25. The Olympic Torch Relay will be illuminated by the"me "Hop" lights our r" ad" co" conveying a message of acceptance, unity, and support for one another.