The men s club swinging was an artistic gymnastics event held as part of the gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme It was the only time the club swinging event was held though an Indian clubs competition was held at the 1932 Summer Olympics
These following 14 events have been held in every modern Olympics: TRACK and FIELD 100 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres Marathon 110 metres hurdles High Jump Long Jump Triple Jump Pole-Vault Shot Put Discus FENCING Individual Foil Individual Sable
JB Kelly Olympic gold medallist rower and father of Princess Grace of Monaco was banned from competing at Henley because he had once been a bricklayer thus falling foul of the Amateur Rowing Associationís rules which banned manual workers from competing
Henry Robert Bobby Pearce was an Australian-Canadian sculler who won the gold medal in the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles He won the 1928 race even after stopping to let some ducks pass along the way
Four Olympic medallists later played Tarzan in films: Johnny Weismuller who won two swimming gold medals in 1924 and in 1928 Buster Crabbe who won a swimming bronze in 1928 Hermann Brix who won silver in the shot put in 1928 Glen Morris who took gold in the decathlon in 1936
The following sports were part of Olympics but were discontinued: Cricket 1900 Croquet 1900 Golf 1900 1904 Real tennis 1908 Lacrosse 1904 1908 Motor Boating 1908 Pelota 1900 Polo 1900 1908 1920 1924 1936 Rackets 1908 Rugby 1900 1908 1920 1924 Tug of War 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 1920
At the 1908 London Summer Olympics three motorboat racing events were contested Various sources refer to the sport as water motorsports motor boats and power boating These Games were the first and only to feature motorized sports though it was featured as a demonstration sport in 1900
Udham Singh played 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki 1956 Summer Olympics Melbourne 1960 Summer Olympics Rome and 1964 Summer Olympics Tokyo as a member of Indian Hockey team and won three gold and a silver medals (set an Olympic record for a player in the Olympic Field Hockey competition)
Sheila Taormina is the first woman ever to compete in three Olympics in three different sports The American won a gold medal in swimming in 1996 and competed in the triathlon at the Athens games in 2004 In Beijing she ran in the modern pentathlon which is made up of five different events
Leonidas of Rhodes was the first Olympics superstar winning 12 championships between 164BC and 152BC Milon of Kroton won the boys wrestling title in 540BC He won the senior title in 532BC and successfully defended it four times before losing in the final in 512BC to Timasitheos of Kroton
There s a 62-year age difference between the oldest and youngest Olympians ever The youngest Olympian ever was Dimitrios Loundras a Greek gymnast in the 1896 Athens Olympics He was 10 The oldest Olympian ever was Oscar Swahn a Swedish shooter in the 1920 Antwerp Belgium Olympics He was 72
The only swimming event in the 1896 Olympics was the 100 metres freestyle - in the sea off Piraeus In 1900 at the Paris Olympics swimming events were held in the Seine Times were fast as the swimmers swam with the current From 1904 events were indoor Women s swimming was introduced in 1912
In 1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson broke the Olympic and World record in the 100 metres but was subsequently disqualified after it was discovered that he had used anabolic steroids to enhance his performance His record was expunged and the gold medal was instead awarded to American Carl Lewis
The first recorded Olympic champion was Coroebus of Elis who won the 200 metre race in the only event in 776 The length of the race was based on a legend that Hercules had run this distance in one breath Not a lot of people know this but Coroebus was a cook Competitors in those days of course competed nude
In 1904 Cartmell lost both sprints to compatriot Archie Hahn Grodotzki took silver in the 5 000 and 10 000 in 1960 Van Damme came second to Juantorena in the 800 and John Walker in the 1500 in 1976 Boyle actually got three silvers in 100 and 200 in Munich and 400 in Montreal Four great athletes but not an Olympic gold between them
