Student-Led
This is the name of the Olympic Games for individuals with physical disabilities.
Paraolympics
The games last for how many days originally?
5 days
This Team USA Olympian has the most medals of any athlete ever at 28 total, 23 of which are gold.
Michael Phelps
This city will be hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics and is expected to bring in $18.3 billion in revenue
Los Angeles, USA
The city the Olympics are taking place in this summer.
Paris
This is the century or year that the Ancient Olympics started.
Around 776 BC or the 8th century BC.
These are the original Ancient Olympics events. List two.
Shot put, running, long jump, equestrian events, Pankration, Javelin, and boxing
This female swimmer is the most decorated with 7 Gold medals and 21 world championship medals.
Katie Ledecky
True or False: Hosting the Olympics typically brings in more revenue on average than expenditures.
False, the Olympics do not typically generate economic growth for host cities, and they often shoulder an expense bill.
The last time this city hosted the Olympics was exactly how many years ago?
100 years ago in 1924!
These two sports will not be played at the 2024 Olympics.
Baseball and softball
This is the name of the winged messenger for the Gods that would come down and grant victory to winners.
Nike
This team USA athlete is headed to the 2024 Olympics for the first time after clocking the fastest time recorded this year for the women's 100 meter dash at 10.71 seconds at the track & field trials in Oregon.
Sha'Carri Richardson
This is the number of permanent Olympic stadiums that are closed, inactive or abandoned.
35 stadiums, out of 817
There are five new Olympic sports in this year's olympics. List at least three of them.
Breaking, skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing, 3x3 basketball.
This is the name of the River that the 2024 Olympics are hoping to host swimming events in.
The Seine River
This Greek God was celebrated and honored at the Delphi games
Apollo
This eight-time Olympics gold medalist from Jamaica holds the world record for for fastest 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash and 4 x 100 meter relay
Usain Bolt
This city hosted the most expensive Olympics ever, at an estimated cost of 55 billion- with a B. *Hint it was for the Winter Olympics
Sochi 2014
This is the number of National Olympic Committees that will be representing countries in this year's olympics.
There will be 206 National Olympic Committees this year
Ancient Greek athletes covered themselves in these two things.
Olive oil and sand
These are the four cities that the Panhellenic Games took place in, in Ancient Greece
Olympus, Delphi, Isthmus of Corinth, Name
Name two athletes from Minnesota who competed in the 2020 Olympics or will be in the 2024 Olympics.
Suni Lee, Regan Smith, Grace McCallum, Shane Wiskus, Megan Kalmoe, Lara Dallman-Weiss, Patrick Sunderman, Kyra Condie, Joe Klecker, Joseph Fahnbulleh, Mason Ferric, Gable Steveson,
The 2024 Olympics are expected to bring in this number of jobs with efforts to give equal opportunities to unemployed people and other disadvantaged groups.
181,000 jobs
This is the name of the French Revolution icon who is represented on the 2024 Olympic symbol- the first time a woman has ever been featured on the official symbol.
Marianne