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K. Khalid

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5.There is one country's flag that has every color that is represented on the Olympic flag - ______ (2 Words)
7.________ boycotted the 1956 Olympics.
9.The original Olympic Flag that was first unveiled at Antwerp in 1920 was finally retired after the 1984 Games at______ , and a new flag was flown at the 1988 Seoul Games. (2 Words)
12.Great Britain is the only nation to have won at least one_______ at every Summer Games. (2 Words)
14.Mother & daughter competed together in 1904 and the mother came in ______ place.
15.The first person to light the Olympic Flame was German _______ runner Fritz Schligen at Berlin in 1936 (2 Words)
17.The Olympic flag has five rings. The colors are blue, ______, black, green, and red.
19.The only Olympian ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Philip Noel-Baker of _______. (2 Words)
20.American Eddie ______ is the only person to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Games.
21.The last series of Olympic medals to be made of solid gold were awarded at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, _____.
22.12-year-old Inge Sorensen from _____won a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke in 1936.
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1.The Olympic motto in Latin is "Citius, Altius, Fortius" - which translates in English as "Swifter, _____, Stronger".
2.The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and ______, and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world.
3.The only female competitor not to have to submit to a sex test at the 1976 Summer Olympics was _______ of the UK, a member of the UK equestrian team. As the daughter Queen Elizabeth II, such a test was seen as inappropriate. (2 Words)
4.The oldest man to compete in the Summer Olympic Games was Oscar Swahn of Sweden in _____Oscar Swahn became the oldest gold medalist when he won gold at 64 in 1912, and the oldest when he won silver in 1920 aged 72 .
6.The record for the longest name for an Olympic champion is by female Thai ______ Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon, with a name comprising 31 letters.
8.Today's 'gold' medals are actually made of ______ and covered with a thin coat of pure gold (2 Words)
10.More athletes than _____ attended the 1900 Paris Olympic Games.
11.The oldest woman to compete in the Olympics was British rider Lorna Johnstone, who participated in _____ at the 1972 Olympic Games at 70
13.Did you know that all athletes competed in the ____ at the ancient Olympics?
16.In the ancient Olympics, the philosopher _____ (427-347 BC) was a double winner of the Pankration.
17.The 1904 St Louis Olympics were the only Olympics in which distances were measured in _____ .
18.The first black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, competing for _____ in 1900.

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