Trivia 2

1. Norman Pritchard became the first Indian to win two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympiad
2. The 1500 m is the last event in the Decathlon
3. Rohini Bharadwaj represented the USA in gymnastics at the Olympics
4. Gao Lin from China is the female shuttler to have won the most number of medals in Badminton at the Olympics
5. Japan was supposed to have hosted the summer Olympiad in the year 1940, but the event was cancelled due to World War II
6. Sam the Eagle was the mascot of the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles
7. The Blue ring on the Olympic flag represents the continent of Europe
8. The “Fosbury Flop” was named after its inventor - the legendary Dick Fosbury. It’s a high jump technique
9. The Equestrian events in the 2008 Beijing games were not held in China, but in Hong Kong
10. In the 1908 Olympics, the Russian team did not turn up in time for the shooting event and the gold medal was awarded to the American team. The Russians turned up 2 weeks late due to the difference in time zones between the Julian and the Gregorian calendars
11. Ice Hockey – a winter sport, made its debut at the summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1928
12. The three mascots of the 2000 Sydney games were Syd, Mille & Oly – short forms for “Sydney”, “Millennium”  & “Olympics”
13. Yoshimori Sakai was given the honor of being the torch bearer during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics since he was born on 6^th August 1945 in Hiroshima, the day of the bombing
14. The country to have won the most number of medals at the Athens Olympics in 1896 was Greece
15. Table Tennis as we know it today was earlier referred to as “Ping Pong”