Famous Athletes
He is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals.
Who is Michael Phelps.
These sports were added to the 2020 Olympics
What is baseball/softball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing?
Host of the next winter Olympics
What is Beijing, China?
Olympics which saw the first female compete
What is Paris? (1900)
What are the colors of the Olympic Rings.
What is blue, black, red, yellow, and green.
She is an American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, She is the most decorated American gymnast and is regarded by many to be the greatest and most dominant gymnast of all time
Who is Simone Biles.
This sport was removed for the 2020 Olympics
What is wrestling?
Host of next summer Olympics
What is Paris, France?
First Olympics to be televised
What is 1960? (Rome)
It is brought into the stadium, passed from athlete to athlete during a relay, until it reaches the last carrier; often a well-known athlete from the host nation, who lights the fire in the stadium's cauldron.
What is the torch or flame.
He is an American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games. He specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history"
Who is Jesse Owens.
The oldest Olympic event
What is the running race known as stadion or stade. It was the only event at the very first Olympics in 776 BCE and remained the sole event at the Games until 724 BCE.
Location of first modern day Olympics
What is Athens, Greece?
Olympian who has earned the most medals
Who is Michael Phelps? (28, 23 gold, three silver and two bronze. The next highest is Soviet Union gymnast Larisa Latynina with 18)
This symbol includes a white background displaying the five ring symbol over top. It is flew at every Olympic Games. It was flew for the first time at the Antwerp Games in 1920.
What is the Olympic Flag.
She is an American professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's single tennis. She is widely regarded to be one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined among active players.
Who is Serena Williams.
These vents make up the pentathalon
What are fencing, shooting, swimming, riding, and cross-country running?
First US city to host Olympics
What is St. Louis, Missouri? (in 1904)
Lighter of the 1996 Atlanta torch, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic games
Who is Muhammad Ali?
These are released following the lighting of the flame and symbolize peace.
He is a Jamaican retired sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. He gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first person to hold both records since fully automatic time became mandatory.
Who is Usajn Bolt.
What event has been in the Olympics the longest?
What is the marathon? The marathon has been on the Olympic programme at every Olympic Game since Athens 1896.
These two US cities have hosted the Olympics more than once
What is Lake Placid and Los Angeles?
English doctor Ludwig Guttman founded the International Wheelchair Games at this Olympics to help rehabilitate wounded WWII veterans. This became the Paralympics.
What is 1948 (London)?
It is common for all gold medalists to do this to their medals.
What is biting their medal. This is done to prove that it is actually gold.