Obscure Events
This Olympic sport involves acrobatics with props such as a ball, a hoop, and a ribbon.
What is rhythmic gymnastics?
This USA gymnast just won the women's all-around gold medal.
Who is Suni Lee?
The first modern Olympic games were held in this city.
Where is Athens, Greece?
Athletes in Tokyo have been sleeping on beds made of this material.
What is cardboard?
This childhood playground group game, which was an Olympic event from 1900-1920, really pulled at the spectators' attention.
What is Tug of War?
This is the medal won this year by the US dressage team.
What is Silver?
This team boycotted the 1980 Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Who is the USA?
Ukrainian gymnast Oksana Chusovitina has competed in eight Olympic games and recently announced Tokyo would be her last. She is this age.
What is 46?
This event is the longest track and field race involving obstacles, including a small body of water in the middle of the track.
What is steeplechase?
This US swimmer won the gold medal for the women's individual 1500 freestyle.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
This country has hosted the most Olympic Games.
What is the USA?
This country became the smallest country to win gold this year.
What is Bermuda? Triathalon
This Olympic event is a fancy way of saying horse dancing.
What is Dressage?
This US athlete won the gold medal for Women's Foil Individual Fencing in Tokyo.
Who is Lee Kiefer?
This live animal was used in the 1900 Paris Games.
Pigeons were used in place of clay pigeons.
This swimmer beat COVID twice and came back to win a gold medal.
Who is British swimmer, Tom Dean?
This Olympic event, which involved competitors diving into the pool and seeing how far they could drift underwater until they surfaced, up to a maximum of a minute later, is sadly no longer a part of the Games.
What is Plunge for Distance?
This is the medal won by the US Women's Softball team this year.
What is Silver?
The youngest ever Olympian was this age.
What is 7?
The youngest Olympian ever was a 7-year-old French boy who was a last-minute recruit to the Dutch team that won the coxed pairs rowing race in the 1900 Summer Olympics. His name was never recorded as he became bored waiting for his medal and wandered off.
During this sport a Russian tennis star said he could "die" in the suffocating heat and humidity, and a Spanish player had to be removed in a wheelchair because of heatstroke.
What is tennis?