Any Olympians here, past or present.?
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Hi,\n\nI'm Zeus' niece, so I pass as Olympian. I have no gold medals, but I can smithe people with thunder bolts. I hope you're proud of me for what I can do as well.
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Sadly, not yet. But if I were to go, as chilly a prospect as it may be, I would have to choose the Winter Olympics. Gotta love that figure skating!
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Sorry, those game are over.  They were in Torino, Italy.  For a list of finalists, try going to the official Olympics website and looking for news on finalists before Torino.
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Yes, I've been watching the Games since 1972 and I attended the '76, '84 & '96 games. I hope to see the London games in '12.
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Why the last? If others are interested in skiing and football then others will enter both. I know other football players that were skiers but none I know of with Olympic creds
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mmmmm u should get sumthing from the greek olympic games.......thall be fun........look it them up on wkipedia or sumthing.......yah haha.
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a few years back, there was an olympic swimming event that had a european nation that was new to the olympics (at least in that event). it was one of the prequalifying runs, and the guy swimming was nowhere near finishing in time for the event, but he just wouldnt stop, and the crowd went NUTS. they didnt care where he was from, they didnt care that he wasnt going to win, they just were cheering on a guy who was clearly pushing himself, and didnt give in. even when he knew he lost, he was going to finish for him, and his ppl. THAT was a great moment in my book.
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see  \nhttp://www.olympic-usa.org/12181_19096.htm
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1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS:-)
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they used to take place the same year.  Up until about 12 years ago.  it was too much Olympics to take (IMHO).
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A History of the Olympics\n\nAccording to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history.\n\nThe ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences.\n\nApproximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertin is now known as le Rénovateur. Coubertin was a French aristocrat born on January 1, 1863. He was only seven years old when France was overrun by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Some believe that Coubertin attributed the defeat of France not to its military skills but rather to the French soldiers' lack of vigor.* After examining the education of the German, British, and American children, Coubertin decided that it was exercise, more specifically sports, that made a well-rounded and vigorous person. ....
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War?  Don't you mean Olympics?
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I am not a swimmer or into gymnastics but i have been a figure skater for 10 years. I am 14 now. Some sports is different timing. But ice skating takes so much time to learn everything to be in the Olympics. Also all of the sports that you have put in your question seem like sports that you have to be young and in shape to be good. So start them young with there sports. But if you want to jump into it right now it may work depending on how much effort you give.
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No records are kept on the race of the Olympic medal winners.  If you wanted to take the time to look up each one, then you would need to go to the site below and run a series of searches:
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I love the gymnastics... I have done gymnastics for about 6or7 years and I think it would be so awesome to be in the olympics
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You can find information on all the Olympic medalists here:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp
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Has anyone ever died during the Olympic Games? Yes, the 11 Israeli athletes who were kidnapped by members of a Arab terrorist group who were killed during the rescue attempt.\n\nHas anyone ever died because of Olympic competition? That's a more tricky question to answer. I am not aware of any deaths that have been directly linked to competition in the Olympics so far.