Tuesday Fact

Guess what, since the the Winter Olympiad just ended, might as well get ready for the next Olympics set to be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.

Sports added: Golf (although, not the sport's first appearance, the sport was in the 1900 and 1904 games) and rugby sevens

The United States have won a total of 2,400 medals.

Michael Phelps, United States swimmer, has the most career Olympic medals at 22 total medals. He is followed by gymnast Larisa Latynina (18) of the Soviet Union, and gymnast Nikolai Andrianov (15) of the Soviet Union. (There are three other athletes tied at 13 career medals in the Summer Olympics)

The most recent athlete to collect medals in BOTH Summer and Winter Olympics is Lauryn Williams (USA). She received two Summer Olympic medals with performances in 100 m Dash (Silver, 2004 Athens) and 4x100 m Relay (Gold, 2012 London). The Winter Olympic medal came at Sochi (2014) in the two-woman bobsleigh in which she received a silver medal.

Tug-of-War was an official Olympic sport in the years:
1900, Paris, FRA
1904, St. Louis, USA
1908, London, UK
1912, Stockholm, SWE
1916, NO OLYMPIC GAMES - during World War I, the games were scheduled to be in Berlin, GER
1920, Antwerp, BEL

London, UK has hosted the Summer Olympics three times. (1908, 1948 and 2012)

The United States have been a host country four times. (1904, 1932, 1984, 1996)