Interesting facts over the years.

* In Ancient Olympic times there where no prizes awarded to the winners, instead they were given a wreath cut with a golden knife from the sacred olive tree and where treated as a hero when they returned to their home city.

* The first Olympic games happened over two thousand years ago.

* During the 1900 Olympics (the second modern games) women were able to compete.

*During the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, Israeli's athletes were held hostage in their dormitory's where they were staying.

* The Olympic games is the largest single broadcast in the world, broadcasted in 220 countries to over 3.5 billion people.