Significant Olympic Moments Flashcards by Anna Cahill

Modern Olympics founder

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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Only city to host Olympics three times

London

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Native American sprinting star, 1912

Jim Thorpe

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American sprinter who embarrassed Hitler, 1936

Jesse Owens

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Jamaican who hold 100 meter dash record

Usain Bolt

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American won back to back decathlon titles

Bob Mathias

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She won first Olympic women’s marathon

Joan Benoit

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American female speed skater with five Gold

Bonnie Blair

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American male speed skater with five Golds

Eric Heiden

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Man who won five swimming Golds, 1988

Matt Biondi

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“Flying Finn” track star with Gold in three Olympics

Paavo Nurmi (9 total golds & 3 silvers in 1920s)

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Man who shattered long jump record, 1968

Bob Beamon

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Four-time discus champion

Al Oerter

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Four-time long jump champion

Carl Lewis

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Man who won the marathon twice barefoot

Abebe Bikila (Ethopia)

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Man to win the 200 and 400 meter races

Michael Johnson

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Male swimming star, 1924

Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan)

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Man who won seven swimming Golds, 1972

Mark Spitz

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American with most Gold medals

Michael Phelps (14)

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Person with most Golds in a single games

Michael Phelps (8)

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Years Olympics were canceled due to war

1916, 1940,1944

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Cassius Clay’s Olympic weight class

Light Heavyweight (won gold in 1960 Rome Olympics)

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Two brothers who won gold medals in boxing in 1976

Spinks brothers

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1972 Basketball controversy

USSR beat USA in controversial ending to gold medal game; first time USA didn’t win gold (and first loss in any game) since basketball’s introduction into the Olympics in 1936

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1994 US Figure Skating controversy

Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding; Kerrigan's kneecap injured through Harding plot; Kerrigan went on to win silver medal in 1994 Olympics (bronze in 1992)

First year of Special Olympics

1968

1988 Olympic Gold medalist in men's figure skating

Brian Boitano

Romanian girl who won 3 gymnastic gold medals in the 1976 Olympics

Nadia Comaneci

US gymnast with perfect vault to come from behind and win all-around gold in 1984

Mary Lou Retton

What the Olympic Rings represent

The 5 rings represent the 5 parts of the world brought together

Famous Gymnastic coach of Nadia Comaneci & Mary Lou Retton

Bela Karolyi

1992 USA Basketball team nickname

The Dream Team

1st modern Olympic champion

James Connolly - won triple jump in 1896

Famous track sisters-in-law

Flo Jo and Jackie Joyner-Kersee

This country has won more men's soccer madeals than any other current country

Hungary

"Magnificent Magyars"

Hungary's 1952 Olympic soccer team

In 2012, teams from China, South Korea, and Indonesia were disqualified from this sport

Badminton

This country's men's basketball team won bronze in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics

Lithuania

First African American to win a winter Olympic medal

Debi Thomas (1988 bronze medal in figure skating)

Gold individual all-around winner in 2012 women's gymnastics

Gabby Douglas

Final event in Olympic Decathlon

1500 meters

Olympic motto

Citius, Altius, Fortius (Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger")

Movie about 2 British athletes at the 1924 Olympics

Chariots of Fire

Winner of consecutive Olympic heptathlons & UCLA basketball player

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

First to win consecutive gold medals in both the 100- and 200-meter dash events

Usain Bolt (2008 & 2012)

Shortest sprint distance currently in the Olympics

100-meter dash

1912 winner of pentathlon & decathlon in Stockholm

Jim Thorpe

Set archery world record in 2012 olympics though legally blind

Im Dong-Hyun

First American woman to win 2 track & field gold medals in a single Olympics

Wilma Rudolph (1960)

Set world record in Long Jump at 1968 Olympics that held for almost 23 years (remains Olympic record; WR broken by Mike Powell)

Bob Beamon (29.5 feet)

Baseball field that formerly served as Olympic Stadium

Turner Field (Atlanta; will be demolished after Braves move in 2016)

11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed during these Olympics

1972 Munich Olympics

Name of group that took Israelis hostage at the Munich Olympics

Black September (faction of PLO)

Winter event that combines skiing & rifle shooting

Biathlon

Coach of 1980 US Hockey Team

Herb Brooks

This Olympic sport gets its name from the metal sled introduced in the 1890s

Skeleton

Al Oerter won this event in 4 straight olympics

discus throw (only Carl Lewis - long jump - has matched this feat in individual competition)

This racket game became an Olympic sport in 1988

table tennis

This event utilizes both a pistol & a sword

Modern Pentathlon

Events of the modern pentathlon

Fencing, 200m freestyle swimming, show jumping, pistol shooting, 3200 m cross-country run

2005 Oscar nominated movie about the aftermath of an Olympic tragedy

Munich

Olympic gold medal swimmer and TV personality

Summer Sanders

2006 gold medal winner in the men's 500-meter speed skate

Apolo Anton Ohno

Olympic-esque games for Western-Hemisphere countries

Pan American Games (held for summer events every four years, the year prior to the Olympics)

Winner of two golds in the 1932 Olympics, but not in golf, the sport she is most famous for

Babe Didrikson (gold in 80m hurdles and Javelin; silver in high jump)

Speed skater won Olympic 500 & 1000m in both the 1992 & 1994 winter olympics; retired on her 31st birthday as reigning world sprint champ.

Bonnie Blair

Equipment on which Nadia Comaneci received her perfect 10

Uneven bars (during team portion of 1976 olympics)

Paralympics began in this year

1960 (Rome)

This martial art is the only Olympic sport to originate in Korea

tae kwon do

Won bronze in the 100- and 400-m free in 1924; in 1926, she swam the English Channel at age 19

Gertrude Ederle

Organizer of 1984 LA Olympics & former MLB Commissioner

Peter Ueberroth

Figure skater who won gold at the 1976 Olympics; famous for her "wedge cut"

Dorothy Hamill

Most medals by any American in the Winter Olympics

8 - Apolo Ohno 2010

He scored the game-winning goal to propel Canada to the gold medal in hockey at the 2010 Olympics

Sidney Crosby

He won Olympic gold and a Super Bowl ring

"Bullet" Bob Hayes

Length of an Olympic sized pool

50 meters

Founder of the Special Olympics

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Home of the main U.S. Olympic Training Center

Colorado Springs

Bruce Jenner's Olympic gold is in this event

decathlon

The only person to win Olympic gold medals in both indoor & outdoor (beach) volleyball

Karch Kiraly

First American woman to win 4 Olympic gold medals in swimming

Janet Evans (3 in 1988, 1 in 1992)