Sports: Olympics

1. 1896 the modern Olympics started.
2. 158 countries will participate in the next Olympic Games.
3. 776 BCE is the date of the first known Olympic Games.
4. The first Olympic Games was held Athens.
5. In 9th Olympic Games, Indian hockey team won Gold medal.
6. There are 5 rings on the Olympic flag.
7. The Olympic Games were first staged in honour/honor of Zeus.
8. The Olympic Games are generally considered to have begun in 8th BC.
9. Omega is the is official timekeeper Olympic Games .
10. Three modern Olympic Games have been cancelled, World War I (1916)and World War II (1940, 1944).
11. Olympic Games are held in 4 years.
12. The International Olympic Committee organize Olympic Games.
13. The youngest Olympian in the modern era is Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, who competed in the 1896 Athens Olympics at the age of 10.
14. Springboard diver Marjorie Gestring, age 13, is the youngest female individual gold medalist in history.
15. The Olympic Games symbol commemorates the theft of Fire by Prometheus from Zeus.

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