Trivia 3

1. Charlotte Cooper won the first gold medal in tennis at the 1900 Paris games
2. The US Basketball team was known as the “Dream Team” in 1992, however, in 2008, they we called “The Redeem Team”
3. Of the five Olympic rings, the yellow ring represents the continent of Asia
4. The mascot of the 1972 Munich Games was “Waldi”
5. “Inside Track” is a famous book on the legendary Carl Lewis
6. The mixed doubles event in tennis would be staged for the first time in London 2012
7. The track and field event with the longest distance is not the marathon but the 50 km walk
8. The “Woodies” – the well known doubles pair of Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodford  added the tennis gold to their illustrious kitty in the 1996 games at Atlanta
9. Frank Fredericks of Namibia became the only sprinter in the Olympics to win silver medals in both the 100 as well as the 200m events
10. The Asian female athlete to win a bronze medal in the women’s 200m at the Sydney games in 2000 was Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka
11. Linford Christie of Jamaican origin who represented Britain at the summer games became the oldest athlete to win gold in the men’s 100m event at the 1992 games in Barcelona. He was 32
12. The legendary Mohamed Ali lit the Olympic flame at the start of the 1996 games in Atlanta
13. Greece marched twice at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens – 1^st as per tradition; 2^nd being the host nation
14. Russia and Japan are the only two nations to have won 5 Olympic gymnastics team titles each
15. In the 1956 Melbourne games, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden
16. The famous movie – “The Chariots of Fire” is based on the exploits of the legendry sprinter, Harold Abrahams in the 1924 Paris Games