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Amy I'm Amy Bass, professor of sports studies.

I'm here today to answer your questions from the Internet.

Buckshot0331 wants to know, is the Olympics today the same Olympics that the ancient Greeks did?

The antiquity games basically focused on things like running and wrestling, some boxing, some jumping, where we have so many events in the modern games, over 200 countries, we women competing, almost 11,000 athletes.

And I think most importantly, in the modern games, the athletes wear clothes.

Alfbridge43 asks, what were the original ancient Greek Olympic sports?

TW Chanda asks was cool runnings a true story?

So cool runnings, of course, is the film made about the Jamaican bobsled team.

And I think that the Jamaican bobs sled team sort of has that cultural hold on everybody because it is a classic fish out of water story.

There's no snow in Jamaica, there's no bobsled runs in Jamaica.

And so that idea of fast runners pushing a bobsled became that kind of a dream.

Jazzlikegarage2799 wants to know who's the biggest underdog to win a gold medal.

That I think almost everyone will agree took place in Salt Lake City in 2002 when Australian short track speed skater Steven Bradbury won gold.

He was so far behind behind the leaders, which was tons of Korean skaters.

American Apollo Anton Ono, who was the headline of the Salt Lake Games, they had a massive pile up which happens a lot in short track.

Bradbury was so far behind the leaders that he was able to avoid and step over the carnage in front of him to skate across the finish line first.

Ralph Jenkins, 2021, wants to know what Olympic sport is the hardest.

There's the skill set sports, and then there's just the this is a really hard sport sports.

So decathlon, heptathlon, modern pentathlon sports where you need to know how to do more than one thing and do it really, really well are very difficult sports.

And sometimes it doesn't have to be a whole bunch of things.

I think biathlon, a winter Olympic sport that combines Nordic skiing and shooting is a terribly difficult sport.

You can't dope for it because anything that you do to make yourself a faster skier is going to hurt you as a shooter.

then you have to lie down on your stomach and hit a It's very, very difficult.

But I think then you can flip to the other side and say just what is a grueling sport?

And I think most people would agree that it's water polo.

You can't touch the sides, you can't touch the bottom.

You are creating power to score goals with a ball.

Hey, A Quora user asks when were the first Olympic Games?

The very first Olympic Games were 776 BC in Olympia, Greece.

There was one event, a sprint race to honor Zeus.

Athens launched the modern Olympic Games with about 14 countries competing in a handful of sports.

A Reddit user asks what was the biggest mistake made in Olympic history for mistakes that the Olympics have made?

I think 2000 Sydney gymnastics setting the vault at the wrong height sort of sticks out above a lot of other errors that have taken place.

The fact that the vault was actually set at the wrong height and it wasn't until people were crashing out on it.

It's just one of the biggest mistakes in Olympic history.

But then we can look at mistakes that athletes made.

I think that Lindsey Jacobellis snowboarder is probably going to win unfortunately that race in Torino.

She was ahead by a lot in snowboard cross and sort of to celebrate before the finish line, threw a method grab, a little bit of flair and crashed and everybody passed her and she lost the medal.

CelticNorseman2 asks what do the rings in the Olympic flag mean?

So the five rings in the Olympic flag represent the five continents of the globe and those colors, five colors of the rings on a white background include a color from every flag in the world.

Cody Taplin asks how TF is breakdancing in the Olympics?

Breakdancing came and went with the Paris Olympics in 2024.

Australia's Ray Gunn making headlines for a less than gold medal performance.

And that's part of what the ioc, the International Olympic Committee, does every once in a while to try to attract a younger audience.

If you look at sort of the ex Games ification of the Winter Games with things like snow cross and half pipe, we have seen a rise in those kinds of sort of younger skewed sport.

It was to try to create the success of the urban vibe that skateboarding brought with its launch in Tokyo.

But I don't think it was terribly successful.

Zizbird asks, who is the Winter Olympics goat?

There's two ways to look at that you could do total accumulated medals.

Marit Bjorgen, Norwegian cross country skier, 15 total medals, most decorated in a single Olympic Games, 1980, Lake Placid.

Mikaela Shiffrin as a slalom skier, the winningest World cup skier in history.

We have Chloe Kim looking to just continue to be unbeatable.

Shadas X wants to know what prompted the restart of the Olympics in the late 1800s.

So the launch of the Olympics in 1896 was the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

And he was a sport enthusiast who wanted to bring together the children of the world, understanding that sport was a unifying agent.

Physical fitness was important and thus he wanted to relaunch it as a global event.

Mrk, Wisconsin asks, whoever developed the modern pentathlon was definitely high when they did so.

Not so much a question, more of a statement, but a pretty accurate one.

Modern pentathlon was the brainchild also again, of the modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

And he wanted to bring together a range of skills that personified what he thought a modern soldier needed to be able to do.

Fencing, equestrian, running, shooting, swimming.

Sometimes it takes place over three days, sometimes it takes place in one day.

Sometimes they have time limits of two hours.

And one of the keys to being successful at modern pentathlon, you have to be really good at all of those different things.

Brisbane2032 asks, when did the Olympics first award gold, silver and bronze medals?

And that's a great question because it did not happen at the first modern iteration of the games.

It was 1904 in St. Louis, where gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded.

Sports wants to know what was the most memorable moment in Olympic history?

Wow, this is a hard one, because it depends on what you prioritize.

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