Everyone is talking about it! So here are some awesome facts to impress your friends with…
Ever since the first modern Olympic games in 1896, Team GB have won at least one gold medal in every games!
No one else has!
The American swimmer Michael Phelps has won an incredible 23 medals!
That’s way, way more than any other athlete ever.
In fact, it’s so many that if Michael Phelps was a country all by himself he’d be level with Argentina in the all-time rankings at 35th!
The smallest nation at the 2016 games is the South Pacific Island of Tuvalu!
They have only one athlete at the games, Etimoni Timuani, who was competing in the 100m men’s sprint!
Rio 2016 is the first summer games to take place in winter!
The youngest competitor at the games is just 13!
Nepal’s Gaurika Singh took part in the 100m backstroke.
The Olympic champion with the longest ever name is: Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon!
She won gold in the weightlifting at the Beijing games in 2008!
Steve Redgrave is a total Olympic legend!
In 2000, he became the first athlete to win 5 gold medals in 5 Olympics in a row!
Golf is back!
For the first time in a whopping 112 years, golf returned as an Olympic sport!
Beards are banned in the boxing!
You didn’t spot any hairy faces in the ring in Rio!
Horses have their own special planes!
It’s a long way for the horses to travel for the Olympic games so they get their very own special planes to make the journey as comfortable as possible!
Want to learn more about the words amazing and awesome, check last year’s previous post here!
http://www.funkidslive.com/sport/olympics/amazing-olympic-facts-rio-2016/