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

[liriop.livejournal.com]

That's because the "summer" olympics isn't about summer sports only. Most, if not all of the sports in it can be played (and are played) all along the year. The Winter Olympics Games includes only those sports that are typical from winter. Living in a tropical country, I must remind you that there are lots of countries between the tropics, where only the rich people that can travel to other countries can do winter sports. So the number of countries that participate of the winter Games is much smaller , and even smaller the ones with any chance of medals.

[liriop.livejournal.com]

I forgot one detail. The Olympic Games of 2000, in Sidney were during winter, since in the South Hemisphere it is winter this time of the year.

[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.

[girlspell.livejournal.com]

It's late summer here. But I've already seen the leaves turning and falling. I guess in Australia it's spring. One thing for sure....I would love to live in a warm climate all year.