Интересные факты о зимних олимпийских играх.

INTERESTING FACTA ABOUT WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES

«The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem» - Pierre de Coubertin

• The most medals won by any athletes at the Winter Olympic Games is 12 by cross-country skier Bjorn Dählie of Norway. The most medals by an American athlete is six by speed skater Bonnie Blair.

• The youngest athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Games was 15-year-old American figure skater Tara Lipinski in Nagano 1998.

• Norway has won the most number of total medals at the Winter Games.

• The FIRST Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.

• The FIRST Winter Olympic gold medalist was Charlew Jewtraw, from Lake Placid in the United States, when he won the 500 meters speed skating title in 1924.

• The FIRST Winter Olympic female gold medalist was Herma Planck Szabo of Austria in the Figure Skating Event in 1924.

• The FIRST Winter Games to be held in a different country from the Summer Olympics was at St Moritz, 1928.

• The FIRST Winter Games hosted in a national capital city was Oslo in 1952.

• The FIRST Winter Games to be televised were the 1956 Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

• The FIRST Winter Games to have a dedicated athlete's village was in 1960 Squaw Valley, USA.

• The FIRST Winter Games to use a computer (courtesy of IBM) to tabulate results was in 1960 Squaw Valley, USA.

• The FIRST Winter Games to be broadcast in color was in Grenoble, France in 1968.

• The FIRST games (both winter and summer) for a mascot to appear was in 1968 in Grenoble - Schuss - a man on skis.

• The FIRST Olympic Games (both Summer and Winter) where gender testing was introduced was in Grenoble, France in 1968.

• The FIRST Games to use artificial snow was the 1980 Games in Lake Placid.

• The FIRST country to boycott the Winter Games was Taiwan when they refused to change their name from the Republic of China as the IOC tried to appease China in 1980.

• The FIRST person to win five individual gold medals in one Games (Summer and Winter) was Eric Heiden, when he won all five men's speed skating titles in 1980 (three of Mark Spitz's swimming gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics were in relays).

• The FIRST Winter Olympics to be held in a socialist country was the 1984 Games in Sarajevo.

• The FIRST time the Winter Olympics speed skating events were held indoors was in Calgary 1988.

• The FIRST black athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal was Debi Thomas of the United States, finishing third in figure skating at the 1988 Games in Calgary.

• The FIRST athlete ever to win five medals in one event was German luge great Georg Hackl.

• The FIRST black athlete to earn winter gold was USA's Vonetta Flowers in the women's bobsleigh, at Salt Lake City in 2002.

• The FIRST black male gold medal winner was Canadian ice hockey player Jarome Iginia, at Salt Lake City in 2002.

• The FIRST Winter Olympics host city to hold the opening and closing ceremonies indoors is Vancouver in 2010.

• the FIRST athlete to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating was Haralds Silovs in 2010. He also became the FIRST to compete in two different disciplines on the same day.

• The FIRST Winter Olympics held by the sea will be in Vancouver in 2010, and some venues, such as the Richmond Olympic Oval are at sea level.

• The FIRST time any competitions of the Winter Olympics will be held before the Opening ceremony will be in 2014 when a team event was added to the figure skating program, requiring the the competition to start earlier.

There are four Winter Olympic Games Sports that are held indoors: Speed skating, figure skating, curling, and ice hockey.

LIST OF WINTER SPORTS

Downhill

Slalom

Ski jumping

Cross-country skiing

Biathlon

Nordic Combined

Ice dancing

Figure skating - Singles

Figure skating - Pairs

Speed skating

Short track

Half-pipe

Snowboarding

Curling

Bobsleigh

Ice hockey

1. Назовите место, где проводились Олимпийские игры в древности? (Древняя Греция, Олимпия, у горы Кронос).

2. В каких видах соревновались древние олимпийцы? (Пятиборье: бег, прыжки в длину, метание копья и диска, борьба; кулачный бой; а также гонки на колесницах, забег на марафонскую дистанцию в полном боевом вооружении, состязания поэтов и музыкантов).

3. В какое время года и с какой периодичностью проводились Игры? (Каждые четыре года, между жатвой и сбором винограда.)

4. Кто допускался к Олимпийским играм? (Мужчины - греки.)

5. Кто не имел права быть зрителем Олимпийских игра в Древней Греции? (Женщины)

6. Назовите продолжительность Олимпийских игр, которые проходили в Древней Греции? (5 дней)

7. Когда состоялись первые Олимпийские игры? (В 776 г. до н.э.)

8. В чью честь проводились Игры? (В честь Зевса.)

9. Чем награждали победителей Игр в Древней Греции? (Венком из листьев лавра.)

10. Как называли победителей Игр в Древней Греции? (Олимпионик.)

11. Как назывались судьи и распорядители Игр в Древней Греции? (Элладоники.)

12. Кто из знаменитых людей Древней Греции принимал участие в Играх? («Отец медицины» Гиппократ, философы Сократ и Платон, драматурги Софокл и Еврипид, математик и философ Пифагор).

13. Где начинается эстафета Олимпийского огня? (От развалин храма бога Зевса в Олимпии).

1. Name the place where the Olympic Games were held in ancient times ? ( Ancient Greece , Olympia, at Mount Kronos ) .

2 . Which kinds of ancient Olympians competed ? ( Pentathlon : running, long jump , javelin and disc , wrestling ; pugilism , as well as chariot races , the race for the marathon in full battle armor, competitions of poets and musicians ) .

3 . What time of year and how often to play games ? ( Every four years , between the harvest and the vintage . )

4 . Who was admitted to the Olympic Games ? (Male - the Greeks . )

5 . Who had no right to be a spectator to the Olympic game in ancient Greece ? ( Women )

6. Name the duration of the Olympic Games , which were held in ancient Greece ? (5 days)

7. When the first Olympic games ? ( In 776 BC)

8. In whose honor the games held? ( In honor of Zeus . )

9. What awarded the winners of the Games in Ancient Greece ? ( A wreath of laurel leaves . )

10 . As named winners of the Games in Ancient Greece ? ( Olimpionik. )

11. What were the judges and stewards of the Games in Ancient Greece ? ( Elladoniki. )

12. Who are the famous people of ancient Greece took part in the Games ? (" Father of medicine " Hippocrates, the philosophers Socrates and Plato , Sophocles and Euripides playwrights , mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras ) .

13. Begins where the torch relay ? ( From the ruins of the temple of Zeus at Olympia )