Sports GK MCQs

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The normal time difference between which both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics are held is 2 years. The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, alternating between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years in the four-year period.

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The first modern Olympic Games was held in the year 1896. In 1890, after attending the Olympian Games of the Wenlock Olympian Society, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was inspired to found the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Coubertin built on the ideas and work of Brookes and Zappas with the aim of establishing internationally rotating Olympic Games that would occur every four years. He presented these ideas during the first Olympic Congress of the newly created International Olympic Committee. This meeting was held from 16 to 23 June 1894, at the University of Paris. On the last day of the Congress, it was decided that the first Olympic Games to come under the auspices of the IOC would take place in Athens in 1896. The IOC elected the Greek writer Demetrius Vikelas as its first president.

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“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the motto of the Olympic Games. The Olympic motto is the “Citius, Altius, Fortius” whose  Latin meaning is “faster, higher, stronger”. It was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin upon the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who was an athletics enthusiast. Coubertin said, “These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible”. The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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Japan will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is an international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Originally due to take place between 24 July and 9 August 2020, the event was postponed in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being rescheduled for 2021, the Games will retain the Tokyo 2020 name for marketing and branding purposes. This marks the first time that the Olympic Games have been postponed to a later date rather than cancelled altogether.

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The United States of America hosted the Summer Olympic Games at the maximum number of times. The Games have been held four times in the United States in 1904, 1932, 1984, and 1996. This tally will turn five when 2028 Summer Olympics will happen in Los Angeles of the USA.

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Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Switzerland are the only five countries that have participated in all the Summer Olympic Games.

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The 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris was the first Summer Olympic Games in which women were allowed to officially compete for the first time. The 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris attracted more than four times as many athletes from the previous one, including 20 women, who were allowed to officially compete for the first time, in croquet, golf, sailing, and tennis.

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Commonwealth Games is the world’s first multi-sport event which inducts an equal number of women’s and men’s medal events. The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. It is also the world’s first multi-sport event which inducts an equal number of women’s and men’s medal events and was implemented recently in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Because of this unique action, the World Economic Forum called the event inspiring and significant.

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Australia hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport event achieved gender equality by having an equal number of events for male and female athletes.

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In the year 2000, the first Commonwealth Youth Games were held. The Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) is an international multi-sport event organized by the Commonwealth Games Federation. The games are held every four years with the current Commonwealth Games format. The first version was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, from 10 to 14 August 2000. The age limitation of the athletes is 14 to 18.