Do you wish to play video games? A questionnaire to study Olympic historical past

Madrid, June 10 (EFE).- The Video games of the XXXIII Olympiad will open in Paris on July 26, 2024. To entertain the wait, EFE proposes a weekly query and reply questionnaire with the goal of studying regarding Olympic historical past and its nice protagonists.
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1. On the opening ceremony of the Video games, an athlete takes, on behalf of all individuals, the Olympic oath, wherein she or he undertakes to compete pretty. He pronounces it whereas holding the Olympic flag in his hand. Within the Historical Video games an analogous oath was carried out, however the athlete made it earlier than…
(a) the trunk of an olive tree struck by lightning
(b) the intestines of a slaughtered animal
(c) the priest in command of the temples
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2. Vladimir Salnikov was the primary nice Soviet swimmer. On the 80 Moscow Video games he gained three golds, in 400, 4 × 200 and 1,500 m freestyle, an occasion wherein…
(a) was one thousandth away from breaking the world file
(b) was three lengths forward of the second
(c) was the primary to go beneath quarter-hour

USSR swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, the primary to go beneath quarter-hour within the 1,500 m freestyle. EFE/voo

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3. The all-time main scorer within the Olympic basketball event is…
(a) Pau Gasol
(b) Oscar Schmidt
(c) Luis Scola

Brazilian Oscar Schmidt (d), all-time main scorer within the Olympic basketball event, towards American Scottie Pippen on the 1996 Atlanta Video games. EPA/Jeff Haynes/File

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4. Triathlete Flora Duffy, who will take part in her fifth Video games in Paris, gained the primary gold medal within the historical past of her nation in Tokyo 2020, which is…
(a) Bermuda
(b) British Virgin Islands
(c) Barbados
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5. What number of athletes will compete within the Paris Video games?
(a) 8.500
(b) 10.000
(c) 10.500

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Solutions:

1. (b) The oath was previously made earlier than the intestines of a sacrificed animal.
2. (c) Vladimir Salnikov gained the 1,500 m in a world file time of 14:58.27, the primary time the 15-minute barrier was damaged.
3. (b) The Brazilian Oscar Schmidt is the highest scorer within the historical past of the Video games, with 1,093 factors within the 5 editions he performed between 1980 and 1996. He’s adopted by the Australian Andrew Gaze, with 789, the Spanish Pau Gasol, with 649, and the Argentine Luis Scola, with 591.
4. (a) Flora Duffy is a triathlete from Bermuda, four-time world champion and Olympic champion at Tokyo 2020.
5. (c) There can be 10,500 athletes collaborating within the Paris Video games.

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2024-06-13 02:12:47