◆ Wrong applause
The United States accounted for five of the six athletes who qualified for the 400-meter final. The final is scheduled for Sunday. Three of the U.S. athletes were devout Christians who preferred not to run in the final rather than give up their religious practice. In the end, only two American athletes and one German competed in the final. When Maxie Long of the United States reached the finish line first with a time of 49.4, a sea of applause swept over him, making him wonder why the crowd was so enthusiastic about him. Why did the audience applaud him? It turned out that he was wearing the blue and white striped undershirt of Columbia University, which was the same color as the logo of the Paris Jockey Club, and since the French team had not won a single championship in track and field, the anxious spectators mistook him for a French runner. Subsequently, in order to allow spectators to distinguish between national athletes, starting from the fourth Olympic Games in 1908, national athletes only uniformly wearing their national athletes' clothing, appeared in the Olympic stadium.
◆ Gold medal
In the Olympic Games for the first time in the 400-meter hurdles, only five people competed in the race, although France's five-time champion Tolkien, hurdles skilled, but the United States of America's Tewksbury to 57〃6 score first, he also took the gold medal in the 200-meter run. In those days, the 200 meter dash was run on a straight track with no curves. The penalty for foul play was a peculiar one in that the person penalized had to start one yard back. Tewksbury saw this rule as an opportunity to take advantage of, so he made a fake move at the start to lure the other athletes into committing a foul, so that they were all penalized a yard away from the starting line, and he took advantage of the situation and won the second gold medal.
★Anecdotes from the third Olympics:
◆Olympic Gold Medalist - Harry Hillman
Harry Hillman, then a 22-year-old bank teller, didn't go to college and had no formal training. He was 22 years old and a bank teller. He did not go to college and had no formal training, yet he won the gold medal in the St. Louis Olympics. Harry Hillman was too obese to go to a fitness center and took up running as a way to lose weight. He chose hurdling because he followed his coach's advice and practiced hurdling to stay away from sweets, tobacco, pastries and meat. Before he practiced track and field, he ate so much that he became overweight and finally made up his mind to lose weight. He saw people running and told him that running could help him lose weight and that a lighter body was his dream, so he started his track career. However, when he started practicing, he could not help but eat, and he once swallowed several raw eggs to satisfy his craving. Harry Hillman's performance in the 400-meter hurdles at the St. Louis Olympics surpassed the world record at that time, but because the hurdles used in the Olympics were not of sufficient height, his record was not recognized. He did set a world record in April 1909, however, when he and Lawson Robertson wrote the world record for the 100-yard two-man triple kick in exactly 11 seconds.
◆ Newsmakers in the marathon
He was Felix Cajal from Cuba. The Havana letter carrier, who has no formal training, showed up at the starting line for the Aug. 30 marathon wearing a long-sleeved shirt, long pants and bulky leather boots, but kind people temporarily cut his sleeves and pants short and lent him a pair of lightweight shoes. The race began he has been running in front of the more, on the way because of hunger and thirst, he ran into an orchard, ate a few green apples, so with others fell behind the distance, and finally still ran a fourth place, although not the champion character, but his unusual things, but in St. Louis for a good story.
◆ Misadventure
The current Olympic marathon was held on August 30, the whole *** 40 kilometers. When the U.S. runner Fred Lotz ran 12 kilometers, the body suddenly feel uncomfortable, cramps in both feet, and then hitched a ride on a passing car. After the car pulled him 17 kilometers, he got off and continued to run forward. When he was the first to reach the finish line, the audience gave him a round of applause, the band played the U.S. national anthem. President Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt, presented him with a gold medal. Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt, presented him with a gold medal. But not long after, another American runner, Tor Hicks, who was running behind Lotz, entered the stadium. Hicks entered the stadium. Lotz's deception was exposed, and he explained: I came to get my clothes, and as soon as I entered the stadium, there was such an outpouring of excitement that I didn't have time to explain. Lotz was disqualified and disciplined by the USATF. As a result, the St. Louis Olympic marathon title ended up going to Hicks. But he also made it to the finish line with two injections and a glass of French brandy when he was too exhausted to run. But by the time the truth was known, the false results could not be changed and Hicks picked up a bargain.
◆ Only one person in the final
In the final of the 400-meter run, which was contested by four people, the United States accounted for three, with Great Britain's Holloway in the second lane. Since the 400-meter run was lane-less at the time, there was a clash near the finish. Robin of the third lane cut across from in front of Holsway to the inner circle, Carpenter of the first lane and diagonally toward the finish line, Holsway in order to overtake them, it is around the road forward to charge, at this time, Carpenter intentionally with the elbow of the arm into the chest of Huo, when Huo ran in front of him, he grabbed people with his hands in his shorts, as a result, the referee issued a signal of foul play, and declared the race is invalid. Two days later, the final was re-run with only Horsway, Robin and Taylor allowed to compete. However, the 2 American athletes announced that they were withdrawing from the competition in protest. However, according to the rules of the competition, the final was continued, and Horseman ran the whole race single-handedly, winning the gold medal in a time of 50".
◆Unsolved mystery
The third Olympic Games, the marathon race start and finish are located in the track and field as a track and field track, the route is in the city of Paris on a circle and then turn back. On this day, Parisians flocked to the streets to watch this sporting event. Because of the 19 runners who participated in this marathon, only the French runners know the streets of Paris like the back of their hand, and when they turn the corner, they can "take a shortcut", thus taking advantage of a lot of advantages. As a result, the Frenchman, Mr. Théatre, reached the finish line first with a time of 2:59′45〃 and won the championship. The foreign runners were in bad luck, they got confused while walking and made a lot of detours. Especially the 19-year-old boy from Sweden, Fast, who could have achieved a better result but was pointed to the wrong way by a policeman, and finally only won the third place. Afterward, that policeman committed suicide due to extreme guilt. The American player Newton had said after the race: "I ran through the halfway point when the lead, until the end of the end and no one more than me, I thought it was won the championship, how can someone in front of me? It's a real mystery."
★ 20th Olympics
◆ Olympic gold medal lost and found
---- Uganda's Aki Bua won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the 20th Olympics in 1972, breaking the world record in the event. Later, during a coup d'état in Uganda, Aki Bua accidentally lost his gold medal in a military panic. He was so distraught that he advertised for a German sporting goods company called "PUMA", which made a fortune from the Olympic star. In order to reward this Olympic hero from Africa, specially for him to make a piece of the Olympic gold medal exactly the same as the medal issued to him, as his encouragement and compensation!
★21st Olympic Games
◆ "heavy" gum
In the 21st Olympic Games held in 1976, the United States wrestler Farina weighing before the game, the indicator light, indicating that his weight has exceeded the level standard, he rushed to take off the undershirt, the indicator light, not extinguished, he rushed to the sun, the light, and then the sun. did not go out, he also rushed to throw the sunglasses to the side, the light still does not go out. Farina anxious whispered a curse, spit out the gum in his mouth, just in this moment, the indicator light went out. He turned from worry to joy, and walked onto the field in triumph. That little piece of gum almost missed the mark!
★22nd Olympic Games
◆Twin brothers bravely win
In the history of the Olympic Games there have been a few twins *** with the podium story: in 1980, the 22nd Olympic Games in rowing, the GDR's Randfoght twins (born on March 23, 1951), a big hit, its results Their performance was unparalleled. The two brothers not only have very similar body type, appearance, hobbies, etc., even their wives are also rowers. Brothers in the double coxless race, has won the 1976, 1980 two Olympic Games. From 1974 onwards many times topped the world championships, twin brothers because of genetic relationship, in the collective project than normal people can work together, more coordinated action, more understanding. This is probably what is often referred to as the "heart to heart"!
★The 23rd Olympic Games
◆Participating in the Olympics is not about medals, but about staying alive
Sydney, as the host city of the 2000 Olympics, is in the spotlight of the world, but the state of health of the people here can't be compatible with its status as an organizer of the Olympics. A few days ago, the Australian Institute of Health conducted a sample survey, the results of which surprised everyone. The survey was conducted among Australians between the ages of 18 and 34. It was found that although there were considerably fewer men using drugs in general, this did not motivate them to take to the stadium for exercise. Another result showed that the total number of athletes across Australia is much lower than it was five years ago, while the number of men who are overweight is higher than it was five years ago when the statistics were tallied at 11.9 percent. The number of overweight women under the age of 30 has increased by 8 percent nationally in those five years. The experts concluded that the plan drawn up two years ago to have 75% of the country's population engaged in sports by the year 2000 now seems impossible to realize. The plan was put forward in time to make Sydney's bid for the right to host the event more certain and, on the contrary, the number of athletes in the country alone has fallen from 70.9 per cent to 67.6 per cent in five years.
The 25th Olympics
◆The unauthorized fiasco
In 1989, the organizing committee for the 25th Olympics, in consultation with the International Softball Federation (ISF), unilaterally announced that women's softball would be included in the '92 Olympic Games and publicized it through the news media. The IBSA immediately sent a letter to all member associations informing them of this "great news." The IOC was not pleased and reaffirmed its right to decide on the Olympic program. The Barcelona Organizing Committee apologized to the IOC and reiterated that its preparations would be in strict compliance with the Olympic Charter. At this point, this "women's softball storm" will be quietly quiet.
★The 26th Olympics
◆"AIDS Education"
An official from the town of Fulton in Atlanta, Ga., has said he wants to educate all athletes participating in the 1996 Olympics about HIV (AIDS, etc.) and AIDS. "We're also going to work with the state Department of Health to ask the Olympic organizing committee to work out measures so that athletes coming to our city for the Olympics will be educated to some degree about AIDS," said Skandalakis, chairman of the town's board of commissioners. The town of Fulton is located in the center of sub-city and was the site of the main venue for the 1996 Olympics. The reason they decided to make this move was that Loganes attended the 1988 Seoul Olympics with HIV and a furor ensued over it. Skandalakis wanted to legislate that all participating athletes be tested for HIV, but he couldn't find a provision for it in the existing law. But, he argues, "This will not affect our efforts to implement an educational program aimed at preventing our city's residents from contracting HIV." The IOC has announced that there will be no civilian AIDS testing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Payne, chairman of the Atlanta organizing committee, also said he did not believe athletes were at risk of contracting AIDS while participating in the Games. After learning of the Fulton Township action, he said, "As far as I know at this time, our organizing committee will not put the matter of AIDS education on the agenda." The city of Sydney, which made a strong bid to host the 2000 Olympics, is now faced with a headache for its citizens. Many sponsors who promised large sums of money during the bidding process have refused to deliver them when they are really needed, leaving the Sydney Organizing Committee in a tight financial situation, about 600 million Australian dollars, or about 432 million dollars, short. The private sector is not as enthusiastic a sponsor of the Games as the previous government thought it would be, and now the construction funds for the Olympic Village, tennis and baseball centers
★27th Olympics
◆ Physically unqualified Olympic hosts
Sydney is in the spotlight as the host city for the 2000 Olympics, but the state of the people's health is not up to par with its status as a host of the Games. Recently, the Australian Institute of Health conducted a sample survey, the results of which surprised everyone. The survey was conducted among Australians between the ages of 18 and 34. It was found that although there were considerably fewer men using drugs in general, this did not motivate them to take to the stadium for exercise. Another result showed that the total number of athletes across Australia is much lower than it was five years ago, while the number of men who are overweight is higher than it was five years ago when the statistics were tallied at 11.9 percent. The number of overweight women under the age of 30 has increased by 8 percent nationally in those five years. The experts have concluded that the plan drawn up two years ago to have 75 per cent of the country's population engaged in sports by the year 2000 now appears to be impossible to realize. The plan was put forward in time to make Sydney's bid for the right to host the event more certain and, on the contrary, the number of athletes in the country alone has fallen from 70.9 per cent to 67.6 per cent in five years.
★24th Olympics anecdotes
◆ Multiplayer boxing
In the boxing ring at the Seoul Olympics, South Korea's Do-jung-il played well, hitting his rival, European champion Helis of Bulgaria, frequently, but because he was a head shorter than Helis, most of Do-jung-il's hits were ruled null and void. The coach of Doeong-il was not happy and accused the referee of unfairness. Dao Dingyi threw wild punches to the chants of the crowd, and although he hit his opponent twice, he also fell down twice. In the end, the referee ruled in favor of Helis. When the referee lowered Helis' raised arm, Dojeong-il's coach and assistant coach jumped into the ring at once and grabbed the referee and punched and kicked him. Several Korean officials also took advantage of the fight in the name of persuasion. The audience also rioted, with bottles and chairs flying in the air and the ring in chaos. By the time people dragged the referee off the stage, he was in a state of disrepair.
◆The Gold Medal Thief
At the end of the Olympic games, the U.S. team had won a number of medals, and on the night of Sept. 24, the U.S. team celebrated its victory at a nightclub in downtown Seoul. The United States won the 4x100 meters and 4x200 meters freestyle gold medalists Debbie and 4x200 meters freestyle gold medalists Gieson, after a full meal, but also a small statue worth 800 U.S. dollars "tucked" away. When they were about to leave the nightclub, the owner accused them of theft and they were sent to the police for arraignment. Upon investigation, the evidence was too strong to deny. The U.S. delegation decided to expel the two fighters from the team and send them home early in order to cover their tracks. As a result of the last boxing incident, the host country, South Korea, was very annoyed and, therefore, made a lot of noise about the incident, which caused a lot of unhappiness between the two countries. In the end, the two fighters issued a public apology, hoping that South Korea would not damage relations between the two countries. In order to keep the big picture in mind, the two sides calmed down the incident so that the Olympics could come to a successful conclusion.
◆ Outsiders can't eat
At the Seoul Olympics, some countries doped chewing gum and other small things to make their opponents fail doping tests. One Cuban runner was tested and accused of doping. He couldn't remember when he had taken that stuff. Then, remembering that he had eaten gum given to him by a foreigner, he managed to find the crumbs of that gum and sent them to the laboratory, where they were found to contain doping agents, thus proving his innocence.
★25th Olympic Games anecdotes:
◆ run the Olympic Games to change the look
Barcelona in order to run the 25th Summer Olympics, spent $ 1.25 billion to the entire city of Barcelona to change a new look: it is in the stadium in the construction of the achievements of its municipal construction compared to the inferior, it built a new highway to the nearby cities, a new subway, various parks planted more than the city of Barcelona. With the construction of a new highway to neighboring cities, a new subway, more ornamental plants in the parks, and the renovation of the monuments in the Plaza de Espa?a, the 2,000-year-old city of Barcelona has taken on a new luster!
◆ Unauthorized interference
In 1989, the Organizing Committee of the 25th Olympic Games and the International Softball Federation consultations, unilaterally announced the inclusion of women's softball games in the 92 Olympic Games competition and publicity through the media. The IBSA immediately sent a letter to all member associations informing them of this "great news." The IOC was not pleased and reaffirmed its right to decide on the Olympic program. The Barcelona Organizing Committee apologized to the IOC and reiterated that its preparations would be in strict compliance with the Olympic Charter. So far, this "women's softball storm" will be quiet.
◆The last resort
While the Barcelona Organizing Committee strictly limited the number of athletes and accompanying officials to no more than 15,200, there were still some serious overcrowding in some countries, with Canada topping the list of overcrowded teams with 127 overcrowded people. Officials of the organizing committee claimed that the organizing committee may force some teams to cut down the number of participants because it can only provide accommodation and service facilities for 15,200 people.
◆ Savon's Arrogance
In the 25th Olympic Games boxing tournament, Savon from Cuba easily won the gold medal in the boxing heavyweight category, defeating all his opponents in five matches, leaving little on his face. At the end of a boxing match, the winner and the runner-up are either bruised or disfigured. Savon, however, was a natural boxer, winning 137 of his 146 official fights, a rare feat among professional boxers. Back in Havana before the Barcelona Olympics, Savon threatened that the only thing he lacked was an opponent, and sure enough, he was unbeatable and won the Olympic gold medal. This made Savon even more arrogant, and during the medal ceremony, the other three competitors went through the middle of the hoop rope, only Savon stepped over the top, wanting to show that he was overwhelming.
◆ A taste of his own medicine
Torrance, the American who accused the top three athletes who finished in the women's 100-meter run of taking drugs, finally got a taste of his own medicine after the women's 100-meter run. The IAAF decided on August 7 to launch an investigation into the matter and asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to submit a written report. According to IAAF rules, athletes who falsely accuse others will be penalized. Torrance is the top seeded sprinter in the U.S., but she finished fourth in the Aug. 2 100-meter final. After the race, she told reporters privately that two of the top three finishers had doped, and then she claimed it was the three who competed in the final. The next day, she apologized to the silver medalist, Jamaica's Cusmont, saying she was referring to the gold medalist, American Devers. And the medical board's urine samples proved it: all three medalists passed. Torrance did not accuse anyone in public of taking drugs. After she won the 200 meters, the IAAF asked her why she was accusing someone of using drugs. She said, "I never placed lower than the top three in the preliminaries, and I know I'm someone who can't afford to lose." Torrance was also approached by the U.S. delegation leaders, who told her that if she didn't stop accusing people of drugging, she would roll over and go home. Moran, a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, said on the evening of the 7th, "She has no right to be here accusing competitors in the Olympics. What she's saying is all untrue." Moran did not say what steps the USOC would take against her, nor did he confirm whether she would not be allowed to attend President Bush's Aug. 11 reception of Olympic gold medalists at the White House. Afterward, Torrance made a written statement apologizing to all the athletes she chastised.
◆ Winning the first gold with an injury
A sensation on the treasure island Taipei taekwondo player Chen Yi-Ann won the gold medal in the women's light heavyweight category at the Barcelona Games in the performance event, carrying an injury into battle. This is the first gold medal for the Chinese Taipei delegation.
◆ Prince to carry flag himself
Spain's royal family said before the games that it accepted the recommendation of the country's Olympic Committee and decided to have Prince Felipe de Bolvon serve as the flag bearer of the Spanish team at the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Games. In addition to being a flag bearer, Prince de Borvon also competes in rowing. Princess Crispuna also carried the Spanish flag at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
◆ Olympics attract big names
US President George W. Bush has informed the Spanish diplomatic community of his intention to attend the closing ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics. French President Mitterrand and Russian President Boris Yeltsin have also officially notified that they intend to attend the closing ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics. Let many of the world's dignitaries to participate in the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, is Barcelona to do that the organizing committee of the Olympic Games carefully arranged, because the opening ceremony of this session of the Olympic Games will be attended by more than 20 Latin American heads of state or government, they will be on July 25, the day before the opening ceremony gathered in Madrid.
◆ Foolproof
The organizing committee, concerned about contagious diseases in horses, decided to replace the Andalusian horses with police horses for the parade at the closing ceremony in September. Hundreds of horses have died in an equine plague spread by mosquitoes from Africa. The contagion spread from Madrid to the southern part of Andalusia five years before the race, where 180,000 horses have been vaccinated. Although Spain claims that no equine cases have returned today, a spokesman for the Catalan government said that under international quarantine regulations, it was decided that horses from the infected area would not be allowed to come to Barcelona in order to eliminate any lurking crisis. As a result, police horses were used for the closing ceremony instead. The eight-minute performance by the horses was a major program in the 100-minute-long closing ceremony.
◆ The inviolability of patents
Fourteen hundred undershirts bearing the patented Olympic logo have been found in Barcelona, for which two Frenchmen and a Briton have been arrested. The T-shirts were mainly printed in France and sold in Spain for between 1,000 and 1,200 pesetas. Since Barcelona's successful bid in 1986, 20,000 forgeries have been found that violate the Olympic logo.
★Anecdotes about the Games of the XXVI Olympiad:
Cute mascot
"Iggy" is the mascot of the Olympic Games, it is a little guy from the future world, designed by the computer, vivid and lovely image, a pair of radiant eyes is particularly attractive, always with a charming smile on the face, it also wears a pair of big boots. It was designed by Crawford Communications Ltd is John Ryan.
Whimsical
Officials of the organizing committee of the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia, said on November 4 that they hoped to make Formula One racing at the 2000 Sydney Olympics an Olympic event. But unfortunately he forgot whether he should have looked at the Olympic Charter first when he made those remarks. In response to their claims, Australian IOC member Goss immediately said that the idea was a bit whimsical because the Olympic Charter does not allow sports that are propelled by machinery to compete in the Olympics.
Defeating the sick Wang Yifu
China's shooter, Wang Yifu, was so sick before he came to Atlanta that he was carried on the plane in a wheelchair. The day before the competition, he had fainted twice, and when the team leader asked him if he could participate in the competition, he firmly said, "I will die on the target platform". Not only did he compete the next day, but he was 3.8 rings ahead of the second-place finisher before he fired his final shot. But when he was ready to play the last shot, the competition field suddenly blackout, in Wang Yifu to support the sick body again to stand in front of the target platform, his eyes are already a black, hard by intuition hit 6.5 rings, after hitting it will pass out. He came in second by only 0.1 ring. His spirit of selfless struggle, by the people at home and abroad highly praised and admired.