Valentine’s Day
Olympic Sports
Olympic History & Symbols
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100

This color is most strongly associated with Valentine’s Day and often represents love and strong emotions.

Red

100

This sport is played on ice with skates, a puck, and sticks.

Ice hockey

100

How often are the olympics held?

Every 4 years

100

This winter Olympic sport includes events called halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air.

Snowboarding

200

In the United States, Valentine’s Day became widely popular in the 1800s because these could be mass produced and mailed.

Valentine cards

200

Athletes compete to see who can lift the heaviest weights in this Olympic sport.

Weightlifting

200

This Olympic symbol represents unity among the continents.

The Olympic rings

200

This country has won the most total Olympic medals in modern Olympic history.

United States

300

This symbol is often used on Valentine’s Day and comes from Roman mythology as the god of love.

Cupid

300

This summer Olympic sport involves running, jumping, and throwing events.

Track and field

300

This country hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics.

France (Paris)

300

This athlete holds the record for the most Olympic medals of all time.

Michael Phelps

400

Valentine’s Day is named after this person from ancient Rome who is associated with helping couples.

Saint Valentine

400

This winter Olympic sport involves sliding down ice tracks in a small sled.

Luge

400

This Olympic symbol is carried in a long relay before the Games officially begin.

The Olympic flame (or torch)

400

5. This continent is the only one that has never hosted the Olympic Games.

Africa

500

This Roman festival, celebrated in mid-February, involved young men drawing the names of women from jars and is often cited as a pagan predecessor to modern Valentine’s Day traditions.

Lupercalia

500

This Olympic sport combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Biathlon

500

The city where the ancient Olympic Games began in Greece.

Olympia

500

This is the official motto of the Olympic Games, traditionally written in Latin.

Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger)