Trivia

1. Wilma Rudolph, the legendary American athlete won 3 gold medals in athletics in the 1960 Rome Olympics. She was diagnosed with Polio as a child
2. The triple jump was earlier known as the hop, step and jump
3. The black ring on the Olympic flag represents the continent of Africa
4. India beat USA 24-1 in an Olympic hockey match
5. Los Angeles was the only Non-European nation to have hosted the summer Olympics in 1932 between two world wars
6. The hockey team of New Zealand is referred to as “Black Sticks”
7. Melbourne became the first host city outside the continents of North America & Europe to have hosted the Olympic games in 1956
8.  The Indian National Anthem was sung for the first time at the 1948 London Olympics
9. Stockholm became the first Scandinavian venue for the Olympics in 1912
10. The 1908 London games lasted 187 days
11. The famous Husband & Wife duo to have won gold in the same Olympics in Badminton were Alan Budi Kusuma & Susi Susanti
12. In the 1972 Munich Games, Russia beat USA in a controversial Basketball final
13. Future World War II General George Patton won the Pentathlon in the 1912 games
14. The concept of the Olympic Village as we know it today was first brought about in the Los Angeles games in 1932 where 500 houses were specially constructed for the male participants
15. Flying Mare & Cradle are terms used in wrestling
16. France became the first nation to host both the summer as well as the winter games
17. In Archery, the dead centre of the target is known as the Pinhole

Hope you liked it. I compiled this from the Olympics Quiz show on ESPN-Star Sports hosted by the popular Alan Wilkins.

Olympic Anagrams to follow in my next blog…