A little bit of Olympic trivia

[girlyswot]

I can't think why I don't have a sporty icon. LOL!

So, this is the 29th Olympiad. But how many Olympic Games have been held? Not 29.

In 1916, 1940 and 1940, the games were, for obvious reasons, cancelled. In 1906 an extra set of games was held, though these are no longer officially recognised. For some reason, the IOC defines an Olympiad as a 4 year period, regardless of whether an Olympic Games is actually held.

The Beijing Olympics is in fact the 26th official Olympics and the 27th actual Olympics (I'm guessing the ones who won medals in Athens in 1906 felt pretty miffed when they were downgraded).

Comments

[crumplehornedki.livejournal.com]

the Sydney games were in September which is spring really in Aussie and they were as hot as the Beijing games are now so I'm not sure you can really say they were in winter you really wouldn't have wanted to have them in true summer in 40 degree heat all the outside games would have had to be cancelled for lack of athletes lol

[alkari.livejournal.com]

The Sydney games weren't THAT hot, LOL! A couple of the days had temperatures in the low 30C+ range, but basically it was just lovely warm weather 25-30C, and clear skies. There was one night when it rained heavily, but it stopped by early morning and the day itself was only overcast - I remember going out to the showjumping and the grounds were wet, but not slippery because of the good surface.

[liriop.livejournal.com]

Well until September the 22nd or 23rd it's technically winter, so they began officially in winter.