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Significant Olympic Moments Flashcards

1
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Modern Olympics founder

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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Only city to host Olympics three times

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London

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Native American sprinting star, 1912

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Jim Thorpe

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American sprinter who embarrassed Hitler, 1936

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Jesse Owens

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5
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Jamaican who hold 100 meter dash record

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Usain Bolt

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American won back to back decathlon titles

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Bob Mathias

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She won first Olympic women’s marathon

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Joan Benoit

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American female speed skater with five Gold

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Bonnie Blair

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American male speed skater with five Golds

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Eric Heiden

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Man who won five swimming Golds, 1988

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Matt Biondi

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“Flying Finn” track star with Gold in three Olympics

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

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Man who shattered long jump record, 1968

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Bob Beamon

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13
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Four-time discus champion

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Al Oerter

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14
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Four-time long jump champion

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Carl Lewis

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15
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Man who won the marathon twice barefoot

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Abebe Bikila (Ethopia)

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16
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Man to win the 200 and 400 meter races

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Michael Johnson

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17
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Male swimming star, 1924

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Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan)

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18
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Man who won seven swimming Golds, 1972

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Mark Spitz

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19
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American with most Gold medals

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Michael Phelps (14)

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20
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Person with most Golds in a single games

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Michael Phelps (8)

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21
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Years Olympics were canceled due to war

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1916, 1940,1944

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Cassius Clay’s Olympic weight class

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Light Heavyweight (won gold in 1960 Rome Olympics)

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23
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Two brothers who won gold medals in boxing in 1976

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Spinks brothers

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1972 Basketball controversy

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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

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

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26
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First year of Special Olympics

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1968

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1988 Olympic Gold medalist in men’s figure skating

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Brian Boitano

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28
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Romanian girl who won 3 gymnastic gold medals in the 1976 Olympics

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Nadia Comaneci

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29
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US gymnast with perfect vault to come from behind and win all-around gold in 1984

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Mary Lou Retton

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30
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What the Olympic Rings represent

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

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31
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Famous Gymnastic coach of Nadia Comaneci & Mary Lou Retton

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Bela Karolyi

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32
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1992 USA Basketball team nickname

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The Dream Team

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33
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1st modern Olympic champion

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James Connolly - won triple jump in 1896

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Famous track sisters-in-law

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Flo Jo and Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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

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Hungary

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“Magnificent Magyars”

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Hungary’s 1952 Olympic soccer team

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

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Badminton

38
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This country’s men’s basketball team won bronze in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics

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Lithuania

39
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First African American to win a winter Olympic medal

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Debi Thomas (1988 bronze medal in figure skating)

40
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Gold individual all-around winner in 2012 women’s gymnastics

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Gabby Douglas

41
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Final event in Olympic Decathlon

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1500 meters

42
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Olympic motto

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Citius, Altius, Fortius (Latin for “Faster, Higher, Stronger”)

43
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Movie about 2 British athletes at the 1924 Olympics

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Chariots of Fire

44
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Winner of consecutive Olympic heptathlons & UCLA basketball player

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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

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Usain Bolt (2008 & 2012)

46
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Shortest sprint distance currently in the Olympics

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100-meter dash

47
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1912 winner of pentathlon & decathlon in Stockholm

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Jim Thorpe

48
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Set archery world record in 2012 olympics though legally blind

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Im Dong-Hyun

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

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Wilma Rudolph (1960)

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

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Bob Beamon (29.5 feet)

51
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Baseball field that formerly served as Olympic Stadium

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

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

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1972 Munich Olympics

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Name of group that took Israelis hostage at the Munich Olympics

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Black September (faction of PLO)

54
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Winter event that combines skiing & rifle shooting

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Biathlon

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Coach of 1980 US Hockey Team

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Herb Brooks

56
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This Olympic sport gets its name from the metal sled introduced in the 1890s

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Skeleton

57
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Al Oerter won this event in 4 straight olympics

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

58
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This racket game became an Olympic sport in 1988

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table tennis

59
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This event utilizes both a pistol & a sword

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Modern Pentathlon

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Events of the modern pentathlon

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

61
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2005 Oscar nominated movie about the aftermath of an Olympic tragedy

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Munich

62
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Olympic gold medal swimmer and TV personality

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Summer Sanders

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

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Apolo Anton Ohno

64
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Olympic-esque games for Western-Hemisphere countries

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

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

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

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

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Bonnie Blair

67
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Equipment on which Nadia Comaneci received her perfect 10

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Uneven bars (during team portion of 1976 olympics)

68
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Paralympics began in this year

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1960 (Rome)

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

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tae kwon do

70
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Won bronze in the 100- and 400-m free in 1924; in 1926, she swam the English Channel at age 19

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Gertrude Ederle

71
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Organizer of 1984 LA Olympics & former MLB Commissioner

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Peter Ueberroth

72
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Figure skater who won gold at the 1976 Olympics; famous for her “wedge cut”

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Dorothy Hamill

73
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Most medals by any American in the Winter Olympics

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8 - Apolo Ohno 2010

74
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He scored the game-winning goal to propel Canada to the gold medal in hockey at the 2010 Olympics

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Sidney Crosby

75
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He won Olympic gold and a Super Bowl ring

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“Bullet” Bob Hayes

76
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Length of an Olympic sized pool

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50 meters

77
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Founder of the Special Olympics

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

78
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Home of the main U.S. Olympic Training Center

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Colorado Springs

79
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Bruce Jenner’s Olympic gold is in this event

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decathlon

80
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The only person to win Olympic gold medals in both indoor & outdoor (beach) volleyball

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Karch Kiraly

81
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First American woman to win 4 Olympic gold medals in swimming

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Janet Evans (3 in 1988, 1 in 1992)

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