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birdienlAs you know the Olympic Games started yesterday in London. I love the Olympics! I'm still full of the epicness which was the opening ceremony yesterday evening. I caught the Olympics virus in 2000, when I had to make a report about the Sydney Olympics for PE. For the first time I then realized that this event was about so much more than just sports and since then I watch every Olympics with a lot of attention.
I wanted to dedicate the 100 things challenge to facts about the Olympics for the coming 2-3 weeks. Unless...you all say: please no, I've heard more than enough about the Olympics already. Well, for today an Olympic fact anyway ;-)
If you've watched the opening ceremony yesterday, you might have noticed a group of athletes entering under the banner Independent Olympic participants. These are athletes belonging to a country which has not yet been recognized by the IOC. In 1992 athletes competed under this name for the first time. At that time, these were athletes from Macedonia (because their NOC had not been formed yet) and Yugoslavia (because the country was under United Nations sanctions). Three athletes won medals, all in shooting.
In 2000, four athletes from East Timor competed as Independent Olympic participants and this Olympics, the Olympic flag will be worn by athletes from the former Netherland Antilles (as the territory was dissolved) and South Sudan (as the country does not have a NOC yet).
I wanted to dedicate the 100 things challenge to facts about the Olympics for the coming 2-3 weeks. Unless...you all say: please no, I've heard more than enough about the Olympics already. Well, for today an Olympic fact anyway ;-)
If you've watched the opening ceremony yesterday, you might have noticed a group of athletes entering under the banner Independent Olympic participants. These are athletes belonging to a country which has not yet been recognized by the IOC. In 1992 athletes competed under this name for the first time. At that time, these were athletes from Macedonia (because their NOC had not been formed yet) and Yugoslavia (because the country was under United Nations sanctions). Three athletes won medals, all in shooting.
In 2000, four athletes from East Timor competed as Independent Olympic participants and this Olympics, the Olympic flag will be worn by athletes from the former Netherland Antilles (as the territory was dissolved) and South Sudan (as the country does not have a NOC yet).
