Interesting Facts About The Olympic Games
1. Gold medals are mostly made of silver.
Regardless of the prevalent view that the Gold Medal is made out of Pure
gold, this hasn't been the situation since the 1912 Olympics. The present
Olympic Gold Medal is a sham, made on the whole from silver with around 6
grams of gold to fulfill the guideline spread out in the Olympic
Charter.
2-Tradition of Biting Olympic Medals:
At any point seen Olympians gnawing their decorations during the honors
service and asked why they do that? All things considered, it looks back to
ages past, where shippers would check a coin was to be sure the valuable
metal they required and not a lead fraud. A lead coin would leave teeth
marks, while a gold coin would not.
3-The Olympic Torch Relay is not an ancient tradition.
The custom of the Olympic light transfer began not in antiquated Greece, but rather in Nazi Germany.
The Olympic flame is an image utilized in the Olympic development. It is
additionally an image of coherence among old and current games.
By difference to the Olympic fire, the Olympic light transfer, which moves
the fire from Olympia, Greece to the different assigned locales of the
Games, had no antiquated point of reference and was presented via Carl Diem
at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin which were coordinated by the Nazis
under the direction of Joseph Goebbels.
4-Leastwise one of the Olympic Rings' colors appears in every national flag.
Nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, author off the advanced Olympic Movement,
imagined the five-ringed image. He explicitly picked the various tones—blue,
green, yellow, dark, and red—in light of the fact that in any event one of
those shadings showed up on every one of the national flag of the
world.
5-Naked Athletes:
While today games which include nakedness are considered outrageous or
possibly spontaneous - in Ancient Greece it was one of the major Olympic
practices.
While the first Olympiads saw competitors contend in quite a while, a
sprinter called Orsippus changed the essence of the games when he seemed
exposed, interesting to the country as an image of
'Greekness'.
Nudity demonstrated an indication of boldness, fortitude and power and
was likewise viewed as tribute to Gods. Members would even foam themselves
in olive oil to best flaunt their physical make-up. Did you realize The
word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word "gymnós" which means
naked.
6- The first Olympic Games took place in the 8th century B.C. in Olympia, Greece.
They were held every four years for 12 centuries. Then, in the 4th century
A.D., all pagan festivals were banned by Emperor Theodosius I and the
Olympics were no more.
7- A SYMBOL OF FRIENDSHIP
While dark Olympic symbol, Jesse Owens was caught up with humiliating Nazi
Germany and impacting the world forever at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin,
two Japanese post vaulters Shuhei Nashida and his companion Sueo Oe were set
for a sudden death round to choose who took silver and who took bronze. The
couple chose to decay the tie-break situation and the broadly sliced the two
decorations down the middle. They at that point combined the bronze with the
silver to make two new 'friendship medals'.
8-A MARATHON WITHOUT SHOES
From one-man showing immense mental resilience, determination and drive, to
another. Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon at the Rome Olympic Games in
1960. Amazingly he did it without the benefit of footwear. Running barefoot
for the painstaking 26-mile run, Bikila became the first African in history
to win a gold medal.
9-The youngest Olympian in the modern era
The youngest Olympian in the modern era is Greek gymnast Dimitrios
Loundras, who competed in the 1896 Athens Olympics at the age of 10.
10-The five rings of the Olympic symbol
The five rings of the Olympic symbol – designed by Baron Pierre de
Coubertin, co-founder of the modern Olympic Games – represent the five
inhabited continents of the world.
