OLYMPICS Facts

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 Rio Olympics 2016:-

v  31^st Summer Olympic (Formal name: Games of the XXXI Olympiad)

v  Slogan: Live your Passion 

v  Motto: A New World.

v  206 Nations participated in 28 sports

v  IOC President: Thomas Bach

v  2 new sports: Golf, Rugby 

v  Official  Language: French, English and the Host Country

v  Indian OC President: Narayan Ramachandran  and Secretay Genera: Rajiv Mehta

v  1^st Women silver medalist in the Olympics: PV Sindhu (Badminton)

v  Sakshi Malik (WRESTLING) : 4^th Indian bronze medalist in olympics so far.

v  USA: Topper UK: 2^ND  CHINA: 3^RD

v  Monika Puig: Tennis (Puerto Rico’s 1^st woman gold medalist in Olympics ) 
     Joseph Schooling (Butterfly swimmer): Singapore's 1st ever gold medalist 

v  Kaori Echo (Japanese Wrestler) :  1^st woman to win an Olympic individual gold medal in 4 continuous olympic games.

v  Virginia Thresher: 1^st gold medalist in 2016 Rio Olympics in 10 m Air Rifle Event.

v  Football Gold was won by Brazil by defeating Germany 
     Britain won the 3rd consecutive gold medal in men's cycling track team sprint.

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v  2018 Winter Olympics: Pyeongchang (South Korea)

   v2020 Olympics Tokyo :-

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v  Motto: Discover Tomorrow

v  5 new sports in 2020 Olympics: Skateboard, Sports Climbing, Surfing, Karate, Softball ( Baseball)