Which Olympics did the US boycott?
1980
The Olympics were held in Moscow that year
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In 1894, the International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris. Who was the founder?
Baron Pierre De Coubertin
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Where are the 2024 Summer Olympics to be held?
Paris
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Cool Runnings is the story of which country entering a bobsleigh team into the Winter Olympics?
Jamaica
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In which country were the winter Olympics first held?
France
1924
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How many Olympic gold medals did Usain Bolt win?
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9
Bolt won the 100 m, 200 m and 4 - 100 m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games, although he lost the 2008 relay gold medal about nine years after due to a teammates doping disqualification.
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Did Team GB win more medals in total at London 2012 or Rio 2016?
Rio 2016
67 - compared to 65 at London 2012
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At which Olympics did Kelly Holmes win two gold medals?
Athens
/ Sport / Athletics / Trivia Questions / 2004 /
Which sport, played on ice, did the nation suddenly become obsessed with when the GB women's team won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Curling
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Jade Jones took home gold for Team GB in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics?
Taekwondo
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How many Olympic gold medals has Andy Murray won?
Two (2012, 2016)
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Which year was golf's last appearance at the Olympic Games before returning to the line-up of sports in 2016?
1904
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The pair who won the women's tennis doubles for the USA at the 1992 Olympic Games had the same surname. What name?
Fernandez
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Which was the first Olympic Games attended by the Soviet Union as a communist power?
1952, Helsinki
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At the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games, the teams parade in alphabetical order (in the language of the host nation), with which two exceptions?
Greece - who always go first in honour of their contribution to the Olympic movement and the host nation, who come out last so they don't steal attention from the others
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What new feature of the Games in Mexico City in 1968 resulted in the withdrawal of many high-profile athletes?
Systematic drug testing
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Johnny Weissmuller, who would later play Tarzan in Hollywood movies, won six Olympic medals: five swimming golds and a bronze in which other discipline?
Water Polo
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In 1980 sixty-two countries boycotted the Moscow Olympics in protest at what action by the Soviet government?
Invasion of Afghanistan
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Who won the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in 1912, only to be stripped of the medals for playing a season of semi-pro baseball?
Jim Thorpe (the IOC restored his medals in 1983, thirty years after his death)
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in 1976, which Great Britain swimmer broke an American monopoly in the men's swimming events?
David Wilkie in the 200 metres breaststroke
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Who is the only Great Britain athlete to have won an Olympic medal in any of the three long-distance races for women: 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and marathon?
Liz McColgan, silver in the 10,000 metres in 1988
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