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the marathon 10x $590 avg J:5 DJ:5

J $200 2020 In 1960 Abebe Bikila ran away with this lengthy event, with no shoes on

J $600 2010 In 1908 Dorando Pietri collapsed after entering the stadium in this event; officials pulled him across the finish line

DJ $1,200 2020 Seen here, dressed in traditional garb, Spyridon Louis became a national hero after winning this 26-mile race

the decathlon 10x 10.0% stumper $720 avg J:5 DJ:5

J $200 1995 The first competition in this event is the 100-meter dash; the tenth, the 1500-meter run

DJ $600 1997 Bob Mathias & Daley Thompson are the only men to win this 10-event track & field contest twice

J $1,000 2011 8,893 points by Roman Sebrle

Berlin 9x $500 avg J:2 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $100 1986 Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympische Spiele" or "Olympia" chronicled the games held in this city

DJ $800 2006 Olympic city where Jesse Owens became a legend in 1936

DJ $1,000 1996 The first torch relay was run in 1936, taking the flame from Olympia, Greece to this city

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Greece 7x $367 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 1990 Fittingly, this country was the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896

DJ $600 1987 In 1896 games, only men in the navy of this host country could enter the 100m freestyle for sailors

FJ 1991 This country hoped to get the 1996 games as it would have been 100 years since it last had them

rhythmic gymnastics 7x $657 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2012 1985: Mary Lou Retton

DJ $800 2020 Germany's Carl Schuhmann won 4 medals, one for wrestling & 3 for this, including team parallel bars

J $1,000 2004 Floor area, bodysuit, a ball, a hoop or a ribbon

Eric Heiden 6x $540 avg J:4 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 1985 In 1980, he swept all 5 speed skating medals, most individual golds in a Winter Olympics

J $500 1990 In 1980, he set an Olympic record winning all five men's speed skating races

J $1,000 2001 In 1980 he won gold medals in all 5 men's speed skating events

Greg Louganis 6x $300 avg J:6

J $100 2000 1984 & 1988:Men's Platform Diving

J $500 1998 In 1984 he became the first man in 56 years to win the springboard & platform diving events in one Olympics

J $100 1991 During his Olympic career, this American won a record four gold medals in diving events

the long jump 6x 16.7% stumper $650 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $400 1990 In 1968 Bob Beamon surpassed the world record in this event by almost 2 feet

J $500 1986 The U.S. has won the gold 18 of 22 times in this field event

DJ $1,000 DD 2011 1896:Ellery Clark, 20' 10";2000:Ivan Pedroso, 28' 3/4"

the biathlon 6x $750 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $400 1987 Olympic event for which athletes need skis & a rifle

J $600 2002 Ole Bjoerndalen won 4 golds competing in this sport that combines shooting & skiing

DJ $1,200 2006 Norwegian Magnar Solberg is the oldest individual winter gold medalist, winning this 2-event sport at 35 in 1972

Jim Thorpe 5x $560 avg J:5

J $200 2004 At the 1912 Stockholm Games Gustav V told this U.S. athlete, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world"

J $500 1991 After winning the decathlon & pentathlon in 1912, he was given a ticker-tape parade in NYC

J $1,500 DD 2008 Hugo Wieslander was in the record books as 1912 decathlon champ until 1982, when this man was reinstated

Helsinki 5x 40.0% stumper $1,280 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $800 2017 Athlete or not, this city's Kotiharjun Sauna will open your pores

J $1,000 2022 The Sibelius Monument, resembling a collection of organ pipes forming a sound wave

J $1,000 2013 The House of Culture, designed by Alvar Aalto

fencing 5x $420 avg J:5

J $200 2026 Riposte, hilt

J $600 2024 Denmark's Ellen Osiier foiled many of her opponents in 1924 to become the 1st woman to win a gold medal in this sport

J $300 1992 World champion Giovanna Trillini of Italy "foiled" her opponent to win an individual gold in this sport

Barcelona 5x $1,240 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $800 2020 Countries like Armenia & Belarus fielded a "Unified Team" that competed in this city's 1992 Olympics

J $1,000 DD 2022 The Palace of Catalan Music, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

DJ $1,200 2025 Casa Vicens Gaudí &the Palace of Catalan Music

Athens 5x $320 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2022 The Temple of Hephaestus, for the rest of us

J $200 2013 The Theatre of Dionysus

J $400 2018 Appropriately, the modern Olympics began with the 1896 Games in this city

Montreal 5x $2,667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $800 2018 The 1976 Summer Games in this Canadian city were boycotted by 22 African nations

DJ $1,200 2016 In 2006, 30 years late, the debt was paid off for the stadium called "The Big Owe" & the rest of this city's games

FJ 1996 The Summer Games in this city were opened by Queen Elizabeth II

skiing 5x 20.0% stumper $540 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $400 1990 Sport in which West Germany's Rosi Mittermaier won a gold medal in 1976

J $600 2012 Bode Miller

DJ $1,200 2020 Squaw Valley, Calif. is best known for this sport in which Ernst Hinterseer of Austria & Heidi Biebl of Germany won gold there in 1960

Sydney 4x $1,133 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2017 The Harbour Bridgeis quite the sight on New Year's Eve in this 2000 host city

DJ $1,600 2018 Bondi Beach

FJ 2008 This city's Olympics were exactly 200 years after the death of the British cabinet secretary it was named for

swimming 4x $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2012 Mark Spitz

J $1,000 2012 2006: Rowdy Gaines

J $200 2001 100-meter butterfly & 100-meter freestyle

Moscow 4x $925 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1995 Russian city where Nadia Comaneci competed in her second Olympics

DJ $1,200 2006 The U.S. Olympic team did not compete in the 1980 Summer Olympics hosted by this city

DJ $400 2016 In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city

Mexico City 4x 33.3% stumper $800 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $800 2018 Museo Frida Kahlo

FJ 2008 Of all the cities to host the modern Olympic Games, this one lies closest to the equator

DJ $800 1999 One of the symbols used at the 1968 games in this city was a red jaguar

Jesse Owens 4x $475 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2001 In addition to winning 4 gold medals, he set 3 Olympic records at the 1936 Olympics

DJ $600 1987 In 1984, Carl Lewis won the gold in the same 4 events as this star did in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

J $900 DD 1989 Seen here, he set Olympic records in the broad jump & the 200 meter run:

volleyball 4x 25.0% stumper $600 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1996 Karch Kiraly became the only player to win a 3rd gold medal in this sport, indoors or out

J $600 2012 2008: Karch Kiraly

J $800 2004 2 teams of 6, an over 7-foot-high net

the pole vault 4x $475 avg J:4

J $200 1992 In 1988 Sergei Bubka became the 1st Olympic champion to exceed 19 feet in this event

J $1,000 DD 2014 19 feet, 7 inches by Renaud Lavillenie

J $300 1990 Decathlon event that gets the competitors the highest off the ground

Muhammad Ali 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1996 On July 19, 1996 Janet Evans lit his fire

J $400 2024 This 18-year-old from Louisville won the light heavyweight boxing gold medal in 1960

DJ $400 2015 In 1996 this former U.S. Olympic boxer lit the flame at the start of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta

luge 4x $575 avg J:4

J $300 1991 This winter event shares its name, originally French, with the sled used for it

J $600 2004 A sled weighing no more than 50 pounds, a steep hill, nerves of steel

J $1,000 2018 The Games promise a new dimension with events like this flat-on-your-back sled event held after dark under floodlights

Finland 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 1990 Representing this country, Paavo Nurmi won gold medals in long distance races in 1920, '24 & '28

J $1,000 2018 9-time champ Paavo Nurmi from this country also held the world record for the mile for 8 years

FJ 2015 This European city hosted the northernmost Summer Games, also the first where Soviet athletes participated

100 meters 4x 50.0% stumper $575 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1987 It's the shortest distance for races in both track & swimming

DJ $600 1986 1st winner of this sprint from a non-English-speaking country was Armin Hary in 1960

DJ $1,200 2004 It's the shortest of the running events

tennis 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 1991 One of two demonstration sports played at the 1984 Summer Olympics

DJ $1,200 2011 1924:Helen Wills;2004:Justine Henin-Hardenne

FJ 2023 This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet

the women's basketball 4x $275 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 In 1984, Cheryl Miller led the U.S. team to Olympic gold in this sport

DJ $600 1997 6' 5" Lisa Leslie of this gold medal-winning U.S. team is also centered on a modeling career

J $100 1995 In 1992 the U.S. "Dream Team" defeated Croatia 117-85 to win the gold in this event

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weightlifting 3 St. Louis 3 Romania 3 Nadia Comaneci 3 Munich 3 Lake Placid 3 judo 3 curling 3 archery 3 the javelin 3 pentathlon 3 Paavo Nurmi 3 the bobsled 3 Wilma Rudolph 2 Usain Bolt 2 USA 2 Tokyo 2 the steeplechase 2 the ski jump 2 the shotput 2 Summer Sanders 2 Stronger 2 Stockholm 2 Soviet Union 2 Sonja Henie 2 snowboarding 2 Seoul 2 Sarajevo 2 Lindsey Vonn 2 Kerri Strug 2 karate 2 Juan Antonio Samaranch 2 Jamaica 2 Jackie Joyner-Kersee 2 Israel 2 Hungary 2 golf 2 Germany 2 George Foreman 2 equestrian 2 diving 2 cricket 2 coxswain 2 China 2 Charles Barkley 2 Chariots of Fire 2 Carl Lewis 2 Calgary 2 boxing 2 Bonnie Blair 2 badminton 2 Atlanta 2 3 2 1960 2 1896 2 yachting 2 water polo 2 the tug of war 2 the triple jump 2 the Olympic torch 2 the shot put 2 the high jump 2 Sydney, Australia 2 Russia 2 Lillehammer, Norway 2 Japan 2 Munich and Montreal 2 men's figure skating 2 Cassius Clay (or Muhammad Ali) 2 Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2 2000 2

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