The 22nd Moscow Olympic Games cost the most. According to reports, the former Soviet Union spent a total of US$9.2 billion to host the Olympic Games. This is a record number in Olympic history. This Olympic Games has brought great development to Fico Sports Stadium. According to statistics, the number of large stadiums has increased from more than 50 to nearly 70, the number of artificial swimming pools has increased from more than 30 to more than 60, and the number of gymnasiums has increased from more than 1,300 to more than 1,600... At the same time, the city has also been renovated. buildings, improved transportation networks.

Relevant knowledge:

1. When and where was the Olympic Council of Asia established?

Answer: It was established in New Delhi, India in 1949.

2. When did China join the Olympic Council of Asia?

Answer: The All-China Sports Federation has been a formal member of the Olympic Council of Asia since 1973. In 1982, the Olympic Council of Asia admitted the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee as a member.

3. Who is the current chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee?

Answer: Yuan Weimin.

4. Who was the first reporter in China to cover the Olympic Games?

Answer: At the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, the first reporter dispatched by the Chinese official news agency to cover the Olympics was Feng Youzhen.

5. When did China participate in the Olympic Games for the first time after the founding of the People's Republic of China?

Answer: In the 15th Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952, New China sent a 40-member sports delegation for the first time.

6. Which Olympic Games is called a competition that spans two continents?

Answer: The 16th Melbourne Olympics in 1956 was called a competition across two continents. Due to Australian laws, animals entering the country must be quarantined for six months, so the equestrian competition could not be held. In the end, the equestrian competition had to be held in Stockholm, Sweden.

7. Which Olympic Games is the largest?

Answer: The largest Olympic Games was the 24th Olympic Games held in Seoul, South Korea in 1988. This is the second Olympic Games held in Asia. 9,581 athletes from 160 countries and regions gathered together. This was the reunion of the eastern and western sports powers after 12 years apart. This Olympic Games has a total of 23 major events and 237 individual events, with a total of 234 gold medals competing for it. These include the newly added sports of table tennis and tennis. Therefore, this Olympic Games is the largest so far, both in terms of the number of people and the events.

8. Which Olympic Games is the smallest?

Answer: The smallest Olympic Games was the third Olympic Games held in St. Louis, United States from July 1 to October 29, 1904. Only 625 athletes from twelve countries participated in the competition, including eight female athletes. The host United States team accounted for 533 people. This is because transportation to Saint-Louis is inconvenient and expensive. Therefore, France and several other European countries did not send anyone to participate. Even the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Greece and other countries that sent teams to participate only sent a few representatives, with a total of only 39 athletes. Due to the above reasons, some sports, such as boxing, freestyle wrestling, archery, water polo, etc., have become internal competitions among American athletes. This Olympic Games has the smallest number of participating countries and participants.

9. Who is the first black Olympic champion?

Answer: John Taylor, a student from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, won the 4×400-meter relay championship at the fourth Olympic Games.

10. Who was the first champion of the modern Olympic Games?

Answer: The first champion of the modern Olympic Games was American male track and field athlete James Connolly. In the triple jump event of the first modern Olympics held in 1896, he won first place with a score of 13.71 meters, and won the first gold medal in this Olympics and the modern Olympics.

11. Which country has won the most gold medals in all previous Summer Olympics?

Answer: The country that has won the most gold medals in all previous Summer Olympics is the United States, with 741 gold medals so far. The United States team was absent from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and has sent teams to every other Olympics. Moreover, it topped the medal list eleven times, came second seven times, and twice finished third behind the Soviet Union and East Germany.

12. Who has won the most gold medals in all previous Summer Olympics?

Answer: There are three athletes who have won the most gold medals in the previous Summer Olympics, each with nine gold medals. They are: 1. American male swimmer Mark Spitz. He won 2 gold medals in swimming at the 19th Summer Olympics held in Mexico City in 1968; at the 1972 Olympics, he was approved to participate in 4 individual events and 3 relay events, and performed miracles in the competition He won seven gold medals in these seven events, setting an Olympic record for the most gold medals won in one competition. He was also one of the athletes with the most gold medals in all previous Summer Olympics. 2. Former Soviet female gymnast Larisa Latinina. She once won the women's gymnastics team championship in the 1960 Olympic Games for the former Soviet Union and made great contributions. She also won the individual all-around and floor exercise championships in this Olympic Games. At the 18th Olympic Games held in Tokyo in 1964, Latina was the most eye-catching female gymnast. She won nine gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games from 1956 to 1964. 3. Finnish male track and field athlete Paavo Rumi. He stole the show at the Seventh Olympic Games held in 1920, winning the 10,000-meter championship and the 5,000-meter second place. At the Eighth Olympic Games held in 1924, Rumi won the 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters (team), and 5,000 meters. 4 gold medals in meters and 10,000 meters. It is worth mentioning that there is only 1.5 hours of rest between the 1,500-meter race and the 5,000-meter race. On the one hand, this illustrates Rumi's strength, and on the other hand, it also shows his extraordinary perseverance. This became a miracle on the competition field, and he was also praised as the "King of Long-distance Running". In the three Olympic Games from 1920 to 1928, he won nine gold medals.

13. Who created the best performance in Olympic sailing history?

Answer: Danish player Paul Eversloan created the best performance in the history of sailing. He won four consecutive gold medals in the "Finn" sailing competition at the four Olympic Games in 1948, 1952, 1958 and 1960. He was the first person in Olympic history to win the championship for four consecutive years.

14. Who created the best performance in Olympic track and field history?

Answer: Alfred Utter, an American male track and field athlete, created the best performance in the history of track and field. He won four consecutive gold medals in the discus event at the four Olympic Games in 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968, with scores of 56.36 meters, 59.18 meters, 61 meters, and 64.78 meters respectively, all breaking Olympic records. He is the only player in Olympic history to win four consecutive championships in the same event. He is also the second person in Olympic history to achieve such an achievement after Danish sailor Paul Verstr?m.

15. Among the Olympic gold medalists, who is the youngest?

Answer: At the 11th Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936, American female diver Marjorie Jestline won the gold medal in women's springboard diving. She was born on November 18, 1922. She was only 13 years old when she won the championship, making her the youngest champion in Olympic history. However, in the double coxed competition at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the Dutch team felt after the preliminaries that the helmsman, Black Broschmann, was too heavy and hampered the boat's speed, so they hired a French boy to serve as the coxswain in the final. In this competition, the Dutch team won the championship. After they won the gold medal, they only remembered that the boy was about 7 years old, but forgot his name. Otherwise, the name of the youngest Olympic gold medalist Jestline will be replaced by this little French boy.

16. Who is the oldest Olympic gold medalist?

Answer: The oldest athlete to participate in the Olympics is Swedish male shooter Oskar Swan. In the "Running Deer" shooting individual competition of the three Olympic Games in 1908, 1912 and 1920, he won three gold medals. He was 65 when he won the medal in 1912 and 73 when he competed in 1920. At this Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the shooting event.

17. Among the Olympic gold medal winners, who is the tallest female athlete?

Answer: Among the Olympic gold medalists, the tallest female player is the former Soviet Union women’s basketball player Iuliana Semenova. She is a world-famous center and the main player of the former Soviet women's basketball team. She is 2.10 meters tall. The former Soviet women's team won the women's basketball championship at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games.

18. What is the biggest injustice in Olympic history?

Answer: The biggest unjust case in Olympic history is the "Thorpe incident". It was an unjust case caused by the problem of "professional" athletes. Thorpe is a victim of racial discrimination in the United States. The most famous figure at the fifth Olympic Games was the talented American track and field athlete Gum Thorpe. He achieved outstanding results in the two most difficult events, the pentathlon and the decathlon. However, Thorpe's name is not included in the history of Olympic champions because American racists framed Thorpe as a "professional" athlete. On May 26, 1913, the International Olympic Committee disqualified Thorpe from the championship based on trumped-up "evidence" submitted by USATF, recovered the gold medal, and forwarded it to the second place runner-up in this event, Xu Weiss. Rand. Weislander defended Thorpe and refused to accept the gold medal. Thorpe was not only stripped of his gold medal, but also stripped of his eligibility to compete in amateur competitions. Just like that, a talented athlete was snuffed out. Thorpe ran around, but there was no way to complain. In 1953, he passed away in poverty, illness, and anger. The last words he left were: "Give me the gold medal"! Thanks to everyone's efforts, the unjust case was finally vindicated. In January 1982, International Olympic Committee President Samaranch personally went to Los Angeles and awarded the recovered gold medals to Thorpe's children. This is the "Thorpe incident" that took 70 years to be clarified.

19. What is the biggest doping scandal in Olympic history?

Answer: The biggest doping scandal in Olympic history is the "Johnson" incident. Ben Johnson, a Canadian male sprinter born in Jamaica, won the 100-meter championship at the 1987 World Athletics Championships and broke the world record with a time of 9.83 seconds, becoming the world's number one sprinter. In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he won the 100-meter race again and once again broke the century record with a time of 9.79 seconds, attracting the attention of the world. When people looked at him with admiration, the International Olympic Committee made the decision that Johnson failed the drug test, withdrew the gold medal and canceled the record. Johnson quietly returned home. Subsequently, Canada began a series of investigations and hearings, which confirmed that Johnson not only committed crimes at the Seoul Olympics, but had also taken banned drugs a few years ago. Therefore, the world record he set in 1987 was also canceled and he was sentenced to a lifetime ban from coaching.

20. Which Olympic Games has the most consumers?

Answer: The 22nd Moscow Olympic Games cost the most. According to reports, the former Soviet Union spent a total of US$9.2 billion to host the Olympic Games. This is a record number in Olympic history. This Olympic Games has brought great development to Fico Sports Stadium. According to statistics, the number of large stadiums has increased from more than 50 to nearly 70, the number of artificial swimming pools has increased from more than 30 to more than 60, and the number of gymnasiums has increased from more than 1,300 to more than 1,600... At the same time, the city has also been renovated. buildings, improved transportation networks.

21. Which Olympic Games was the first to start doping testing?

Answer: At the 19th Olympic Games held in Mexico City from October 12 to 27, 1968, the first official gender and doping tests were conducted (the reason is: in the 1960 Olympics At the 17th Olympic Games, a Danish cyclist died suddenly during the competition. An autopsy revealed that the cause was due to doping.

Since then, the International Olympic Committee has made a decision to conduct doping tests on all participating athletes. ) During the gender check, all female athletes were qualified. But there were two incidents during the doping control. Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestlers were removed from the team for taking doping drugs; the Swedish team won third place in the modern pentathlon competition, but one of the athletes on the team was found to be drinking. After testing, it was found that the blood alcohol content exceeded As a result, the team was deprived of its ranking.

22. Who was the first person in Asia to win an Olympic medal?

Answer: When the second Olympic Games was held in 1900, Noman Pritchard, an Indian studying in the UK, participated in the Olympic Games with the British delegation. He won two silver medals in the 200-meter run and 200-meter hurdles, becoming the first Asian to win an Olympic medal. He was also the first Asian athlete to participate in the Olympics.

23. Which city in Asia was the first to bid for the Olympic Games?

Answer: The first city in Asia to apply to host the Summer Olympics was Tokyo. It has applied three times. The first time was in 1940, when it won the right to host the 12th Olympic Games, but it failed to do so due to World War II. The second time was in 1960, when they lost to Roma of Italy in a dispute. The third time was in 1964, which was successful and hosted the 18th Olympic Games.

24. Which is Asia’s strongest competition in the Olympic Games?

Answer: It’s men’s hockey. India won the championship six times in six Olympic Games from 1928 to 1956, and then won two more Olympic Games in 1964 and 1980, winning a total of eight gold medals. Pakistan also won the championship in three Olympic Games in 1960, 1968 and 1984. The achievements achieved in Asian men's hockey are unmatched by other continents.

25. Who was the first Asian athlete to win a gold medal at the Summer Olympics?

Answer: At the 9th Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam in 1928, Japanese triple jumper Mikio Oda won Asia's first Summer Olympics gold medal.