Sir Bradley Wiggins won his eighth Olympic gold medal by leading the British cycling pursuit team to a world record. During the medal ceremony, as “God Save the Queen” played, he suddenly stuck his tongue out...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/14/Gold-Medal-Levity/Michael Phelps is 31 years old and competing in hi... ...helps is 31 years old and competing in his fourth Olympics . He’s won four gold medals so far in Rio, f... ...ht years later he represents Singapore in the Rio Olympics . Embed from Getty Images Yesterday, Schooling wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/13/The-Inspirational-Michael-Phelps/[https://youtu.be/0lhb-rhzE_A] (YouTube link)No ma... ...ell, there’s always more to learn about the Olympics . After all, they’ve been happening for 120...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/10/39-Facts-about-the-Olympics/You’ve probably seen the pictures of winners at Olympic medal ceremonies biting their gold medals. In this video, Simon Whistler of Today I Found Out explains why they do it. Yes, they only do it because the photog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/09/Why-Olympians-Bite-Their-Medals/During the broadcast of the Athens Olympics in 2004, Mary Carillo explains the difference bet... ...backyard badminton and the equipment used in the Olympics . At least that’s what this started out as....
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/09/Mary-Carillo-Explains-Olympic-Badminton/Eighteen-year-old swimmer Yusra Mardini was on track to become part of Syria’s Olympic team until civil war tore her country apart. A year ago, she and her sister Sarah left Syria through Lebanon and Turkey. They b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/07/From-Syria-to-Rio-2016/The first modern Olympics in 1896 was quite different from what we see toda... ...Robert Garrett, an American who went to the 1896 Olympics in the discus throw, even though he’d never... ...uo;s story is only one of ten tales from the 1896 Olympics
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/06/10-Amusingly-Bizarre-Tales-From-The-First-Modern-Olympics/The Rio Olympics officially open this evening, although the sporti... ...winning a world-record 22 medals in two previous Olympics , 18 of them gold, 31-year-old Michael Phelps is s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/05/Deadspins-Olympics-Preview-and-Picks/size difference in olympians doesn't matter, dep... ...cks player Dirk Nowitzki (who participated in the Olympics in 2008). At first you think he’s not that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/04/Olympic-Heights/Imagine that you went to the Olympics and did not win a medal. Ten years later, you are... ...e pentathlon and decathlon during the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. But the International Olymp...
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