GOING FOR GOLD

8) Jim Thorpe was a champion from the Potowatomi tribe. He had to return his medals because:

Many countries want to ___________ the Games, but this is very expensive.

9) In the first years of the modern Olympics, competitors were usually rich because:

1) During times of war, the Olympic Games :

12) Aimee Mullins is a Paralympic athlete. What is her disability?

The Olympic Games are an international ____________ .

2) In Greece, at first, the Olympic Games were :

10) In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, many athletes were nervous about coming to China because:

The inspiring _____________ was Citius, Altius, Fortius, which means Faster, Higher, Stronger.

At the opening ceremony in 1896, they _____________ hundreds of doves.

The ____________ for the Olympics has grown in the last years because a lot of money is needed.

16) In Barcelona, we could see the Dream Team. There is a song called "Dream Team". It's about:

Some athletes want to ___________ their performance and that's why sometimes they take drugs.

3) The ancient Olympic Games in Greece took place every:

.6) What is the IOC? :

The competitors in the ancient Greek Olympic Games ran ___________ in the running races.

11) In the Lillehammer Winter Games Tonya Harding was guilty of attacking Nancy Kerrigan:

14) The largest Boycott in Olympic history took place in _____________ in 1980:

Some American athletes tried to _____________ the Olympic authorities for the boycott in 1980.

In Greece, judges crowned winners with a _____________.

4) Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius ended the Olympics officially in 393 CE because :

A __________ is a declaration of peace in times of war.

17) In the 2012 Olympics in London, British manufacturers of memorabilia were furious because:

15) What happened at the Munich Olympics of 1972 that hit the world?:

5) P. de Coubertin restored the Olympics to include competitors from over the world because:

a) In the 8th century, Greece suffered from civil wars, poverty and ____________.

13) Hitler, the Nazi leader, felt humiliated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin because: