Shaved head to win the championship
At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, United States weightlifting 56 kg athlete Vinci was overweight, in order to lose weight, he shaved his head and rubbed the shower, and the result was over, and finally found that the scale was bad and shaved lonely. In the competition, he broke the world record and won the championship, the hairstyle was gone, the gold medal came, the record was broken, and Wenqi was worth it.
A champion who helps others
The first Olympic 100km cycling race requires 300 laps around the course. France's Flamin took a lead for several laps and found that Greece's Colletis was broken, so he stopped to help fix it, and Flamin returned to the race to win in 3 hours, 8 minutes and 19 seconds 2.
Former projects
Painting, Sculpture, Music, Fishing, Live Pigeon Shooting, Rope Climbing, Tug-of-War...... All of them were Olympic sports. The Olympics are also better than writing, and the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre · Coubertin, won a gold medal in literature, but the literary competition was canceled because the scene was too deserted.
Gold medal content
The Olympic Charter stipulates that gold medals should contain 92.5% silver and at least 6 grams of gold, and Olympic gold medals are mostly gold-plated. There have been three Olympic Games in which gold has been awarded gold medals: St. Louis in United States 1904, London in 1908 and Stockholm in 1912.
Pool lifesaver
There have been no cases in the Olympics where athletes had to go into the water to save athletes, but lifeguards are paid and have the best viewing positions. Athletes have saved lives: At the 1968 Mexico Olympics, the United States swimming team won 10 men's championships and 11 women's championships. The players hung the medal on the chest of coach Chavre and threw him into the air and into the pool. Chavre fell into the water and sank, and the blisters "gurgled and dumbled" up. The team members quickly went into the water to save people, and only after artificial respiration did they turn the corner. From then on, as long as Chavre saw the team win, he quietly slipped away before the award.
Five rings meaning
The five colors of the Olympic rings, blue, green, yellow, black, and red, plus the white background of the Olympic flag, at least one of these colors can be found on the flag of any country. The five rings also represent the "five continents", with blue representing Europe, black representing Africa, red representing the Americas, yellow representing Asia, and green representing Oceania.
Champion of the Leak Picker
In the 1908 Olympic 10,000-meter race, a total of four people participated, and the United States Gannino broke his foot and was about to retire, when the leading three in front of him collided together, fell at the same time, seriously injured, and was carried out of the field, Gannino limped to the finish line and won the championship. The final of the men's 400m event at the third Olympic Games was contested by United Kingdom's Halsville and three United States athletes. Before the shot, one United States player was somehow sent off, and two other United States buddies were sent off after making a big noise in protest, and finally Halsville walked a lap and won the gold medal.
After joy comes sorrow
The XVI Olympic Games were held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956. Rower Ivanov was so excited to win the gold medal that he threw the gold medal into the sky again and again, and the spectators cheered, and the gold medal fell into the lake one last time when he touched his hand. The eighteen-year-old Soviet jumped into the lake and failed to catch it on several dives. The Olympic Organizing Committee could not bear to see Ivanov sad and return home, so they gave him a duplicate gold medal (stall). Ivanov won gold medals at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics, but he no longer dared to throw them around, saying that he would no longer show the gold medal to others.
Plot flip
The third Olympic Games were held in St. Louis, United States, in 1904. Cuban postman Files · Cavaga, in order to raise funds for the marathon, ran on the roads of Havana with a broken bowl and collected money for ferry tickets. After arriving in the United States, he had to hitchhike from New Orleans to the arena, he wore long pants, long-sleeved shirts, and loafers, causing the audience to talk, and United States discus thrower Martin · Shelley couldn't bear to look at his embarrassment, and borrowed scissors to help him cut his long sleeves and trousers short, so that he looked like an athlete. In the race, he led all the way, 5 kilometers away from the finish line, there was no shadow behind him, thirsty he found that there was an orchard on the side of the road, so he went in to eat a few fruits, and when he returned to the race, he had fallen to fifth, known as the "tortoise and rabbit race reality show".
The most unreliable Olympics
The Paris Olympics in 1900 were very chaotic, and even some national teams were composed of athletes from many different countries, how many medals and how many champions were not known, the event lasted for more than 6 months, and there were various reasons for delay, such as the hammer throw game, which took three times the original scheduled time, because the hammer throw field was full of trees, and after the players finished throwing, the staff climbed the tree to untie the chain ball wrapped around the branches in order to continue the game.
Who hosts the Olympics the most?
The country that has hosted the most Olympics is United States, which has hosted four Games. Los Angeles twice (1932, 1984), St. Louis once (1904), and Atlanta once (1996). The most held city is London, which has been held three times.
Suspended Olympics
Three Olympics were canceled for the same reason: war. In 1916, Germany was canceled by World War I; In 1940, Japan was boycotted by Asian countries led by China for starting a war; In 1944, the United Kingdom was cancelled due to the inability to host it in World War II. The Tokyo 2020 Games in Japan were the first Games in history to be postponed due to a public incident.
Warm referee
1952 Helsinki XV Olympic Games. France swimmer · Bouis reached the finish line first, and a spectator suddenly jumped into the water to hug Bouart. According to the regulations, no outsiders are allowed to enter the pool during the competition, and if the teammate of the champion violates this rule, the champion will be disqualified. But the Olympics did not punish the reckless uninvited guest and Bouis unpunished. No one or any rule can stop a father from celebrating his son's victory at the world's most important games, the Assembly said.
Gold Medal for Saving Lives
At the 1960 Rome Olympics, Ethiopian Emperor Haile · Selassie I's defender Abebe · Bikira and participated in the marathon barefoot, breaking the Olympic record with a time of 2:15:16.2 and winning the championship. Later, Abebe participated in a coup d'état carried out by the Ethiopian Royal Guard, which failed. Emperor Haile · Selassie I did not execute Abebe for his Olympic exploits, and the Olympic gold medal saved Abebe's life. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Abebe won the marathon again with a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes and 11 seconds, becoming the first person in Olympic history to win the marathon gold medal twice.
Athletes who have given their lives for their country
China's first participation in the Olympic Games was in 1932, with a delegation of 6 people, including 1 athlete Liu Changchun, who participated in the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints, both of which ranked first. In the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation of 141 people (69 athletes, participating in track and field, swimming, weightlifting, cycling, boxing, football, basketball) of which pole vaulter Fu Baolu passed the preliminaries, boxer Jin Guidi passed the preliminaries but was disqualified before the finals, and the rest of the players were eliminated in the preliminaries or qualifying rounds.
In July 1943, pole vaulter Fu Baolu was martyred as a Chinese pilot of the Flying Tigers.
In August 1937, the Japanese army moved south along the Pinghan Line, and 24-year-old boxer Wang Runlan participated in the Battle of Yuan. The Japanese army had the advantage of strength and fought fiercely, and the wounded Wang Runlan rushed to the Japanese tank with a cluster grenade and died a heroic martyr. Two months later, boxer Jin Guidi died in the same way in the defense of Anyang. Boxing athlete Jin Gui died in the battle of Taierzhuang.
Chinese men's football player Chen Zhenhe joined the Air Force after the Olympics and sacrificed his life for the country. Teammate Li Huitang wrote an elegy for Chen Zhenhe:
"When I galloped on the court,
The small black charcoal is famous for more than ten years;
Shelling enemy ships today,
The great Chinese health will always be heroic, not to mention the thousand years old"
Source: Dao Wei Tang