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Organizers of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games ordered 450,000 condoms for the Olympic Village.View Entire Post ›
Imagine a fun obstacle course, but for swimmers. The 200-meter obstacle race was only held at the 1900 Olympic Games, and obstacles included climbing over a pole and swimming under a row of boats.
Here are six interesting facts about the Olympics as the 2024 Paris Games kick off on July 26.
The "most fun a person could have with a dead fish". Egg tapping: One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg intending to break the other's, without breaking one's own. Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat: Sydney's other Olympic mascot. Ferret-legging: A stunt in which a live ferret is put down one's trousers ...
Bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics became a two-city race between Paris and Los Angeles, so the IOC took the unusual step of simultaneously awarding both the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. Both of the bids were praised for high technical plans and innovative ways to use a record-breaking number of existing and ...
Oceania's rhythmic gymnastics qualification for the Tokyo Olympics was conducted with severe breaches that resulted in change of ranking for Olympic nomination and selection. A 1.5-year-long investigation by Gymnastics Ethics Foundation found serious misconduct by qualification event's organisers, administrators and officials.
These interesting facts will help you learn more about our planet, movies, languages, and animals. ... Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport.
The Olympic mascots are fictional characters who represent the cultural heritage of the location where the Olympic Games are taking place. They are often an animal native to the area or human figures. One of the first Olympic mascots was created for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble; a stylized cartoon character on skis named Schuss.