Chess Boxing is a real sport in which participants alternately play chess then punch each othe

The Olympic motto is Citius—Altius—Fortius which is Latin for faster higher stronge

In the opening procession of the Olympics the team representing the host nation always marches last

A record 1 512 female athletes from across the globe will compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Golf is the only sport that has been played on the moon There are still two golf balls sitting up there

The tip of a fencing weapon is the second fastest moving object in the Olympics The fastest is a bullet

As of 2013 Super Mario Bros is the second best-selling video game of all time The first being Wii Sports

Indians were not allowed to play bare feet in 1954 Football World Cup so they withdrew from the tournament

Since 1896 the beginning of the modern Olympics only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games

The soccer referee s whistle was introduced in 1878 Prior to this a referee had to rely on waving a handkerchief

Dwayne Douglas Johnson also known by his ring name The Rock who works for WWE created the word smackdown in 1997

Boxer Floyd Mayweather had just two fights in 2012 spending less than one hour in the ring and earned 85 million

Muhammad Ali actually threw his Olympic gold medal into a river as a way to protest racial discrimination in America

The sport with the most number of officials with relation to players is tennis There are 13 officials for two players

The oldest individual to win a medal in the Olympics was Oscar Swahn 72 He won a silver in shooting for Sweden in 1920