While watching the 2020(21) Olympics this summer, I was inspired to tangle a tile.
Olympic fun facts:
The five rings are colored to represent all the counties:
Blue - Australia
Yellow: Asia
Black - Africa
Green - Europe
Red - For North/South America
Which country has hosted the most Olympics?
The United States has hosted or been awarded a total of eight Olympic Games, more than any other country, followed by France with five and Japan with four editions.
What was the first Olympic sport?
The running race known as stadion or stade is the oldest Olympic Sport in the world. It was the only event at the very first Olympics in 776 BCE and remained the sole event at the Games until 724 BCE.
Who is the youngest person to go to the Olympics?
Dimitrios Loundras was one of the first athletes to compete in the Olympic Games when they made their modern debut in 1896. He was 10 years old when he competed in the Summer Olympics in Athens and won a bronze medal with his gymnastics team. He has held the title of youngest Olympic athlete since that time.
During the period 1912-1948, artists of diverse categories, such as musicians, painters, writers, sculptors, and architects competed for medals.
Against popular belief, the gold medal is not made out of pure gold, instead mostly silver since the 1912 Olympics. Today’s gold medal is made from 6 grams of gold, the rest is silver.
You probably have seen athletes biting their Olympics medals. Want to know how this tradition started? It takes us ages back to when merchants used to check the purity of gold by biting it. If there are teeth marks left on the gold coin, then it is not actual gold. As mentioned earlier, gold medals in the Olympics nowadays are merely finished with gold. In the 1904 Olympics, the gold medals were entirely gold.
Antarctica & Africa are the continents where the Olympics have not been held yet.
Dimitrios Loundras was one of the first athletes to compete in the Olympic Games when they made their modern debut in 1896. He was 10 years old when he competed in the Summer Olympics in Athens and won a bronze medal with his gymnastics team. He has held the title of youngest Olympic athlete since that time.
During the period 1912-1948, artists of diverse categories, such as musicians, painters, writers, sculptors, and architects competed for medals.
Against popular belief, the gold medal is not made out of pure gold, instead mostly silver since the 1912 Olympics. Today’s gold medal is made from 6 grams of gold, the rest is silver.
You probably have seen athletes biting their Olympics medals. Want to know how this tradition started? It takes us ages back to when merchants used to check the purity of gold by biting it. If there are teeth marks left on the gold coin, then it is not actual gold. As mentioned earlier, gold medals in the Olympics nowadays are merely finished with gold. In the 1904 Olympics, the gold medals were entirely gold.
Antarctica & Africa are the continents where the Olympics have not been held yet.
The running race known as stadion or stade is the oldest Olympic Sport in the worl the only event at the very first Olympics in 776 BCE and remained the until 724 BCE.
