olympic facts and figures

It took over 1400 years until the next Olympic Games were held, this time in Athens, the capital city of Greece.. Then in 1890 Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic

Read the following text about the Olympic

Games.

Then answer the questions.

It took over 1400 years until the next Olympic Games were held, this time in Athens, the capital city of Greece The year was 1859 The contestants were from Greece and Turkey Then in 1890 Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee which still is responsible for organising the Games today

Just like in 776 B.C., the Games take place every four years The first Olympic Games under the rule of the IOC were held in Athens in 1896, where 14 nations and 241 athletes competed in 43 events

At the Olympic Summer Games 2012 athletes from 204 nations come together in London London has already hosted the Olympic Games in

1908 and in 1948 In 2016 the Games will be in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil There are also Olympic Winter Games The next will be in Sochi in Russia in 2014

Olympic Facts and Figures

Nowadays there are 33 sports in total, 26 in summer and 7 in winter

There are three medals for the first three winners The best medal is the golden one, then the silver and finally the bronze medal Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won

an unbelievable 18 medals over three Olympics So far, American swimmer Michael Phelps is the man who has won the most medals: 16 gold and two bronze The most successfil German is Birgit Fischer – she won eight gold and four silver medals Her discipline was canoeing

The first Olympic Games

took place in … Italy

Germany Hungary

Greece

Irish

Michael Phelps is …

French

American British

American

The next Olympic Winter

Games will be in … Munich

Sochi San Francisco

Sochi

break dance

The old Games included

disciplines like riding,

boxing, wrestling and … swimming

discus shooting

discus

This year there are going to

be … nations competing 204

189 78

204

Pierre de Coubertin

Who founded the

International Olympic

Committee? Albert Einstein

Angela Merkel Jacques Chirac

Pierre de Coubertin

At this year‘s Olympic

Winter and Summer Games

33 26

33

silver, gold, bronze

The medals are …

gold, silver, bronze

bronze, silver, gold gold, bronze, silver

gold, silver, bronze

The Games are held every …

six four

four

Greece and Turkey

In 1859 the contestants

were from … Germany and Sweden

America and Canada

GB and Ireland

Greece and Turkey

The … took over Greece and

stopped the Olympic Games Turkish

Romans Egyptians

Romans