This week's Trivia Tuesday features Olympic trivia in honor of the 2012 Olympic Games currently going on! =)
- The Olympics originated in Greece during the 8th Century BC.
- London is the first city to have hosted the Olympics three times (can you name the years?)
- There were more athletes than spectators at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.
- Inge Sorensen (Denmark) won a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke in 1936. She was only 12, making her the youngest medalist ever in an individual event.
- Eddie Eagan (USA) is the only person to have won a gold medal in both the Summer and Winter Games (can you name the events?)
- George Eyser won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze in gymnastics in the 1904 Games. What was so remarkable about this feat was the fact that he competed with a wooden prosthesis after his leg was run over by a train.
- Nadia Comaneci was awarded 7 perfect scores of 10.0 during the 1976 Olympic Games, making her the first female in Olympic gymnastic history to do so.
- Women competed for the first time in the 1900 Olympic Games.
- The first time an actual pool was used during the Olympic Games was in the 1908 Olympics (coincidentally, held in London).
- The first team added to the Olympics was Football (the US version, not soccer!) in the 1900 Games.
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