Olympics Facts by Eryka M. https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q Made With 6 Grams Of Gold en-us 2018-02-07 17:25:16 UTC 2018-02-14 01:28:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Who was the first to win? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/229703378 A baker named Coroebus in Greece was the first to be an Olympic champion, and he won the stadion race. In the end, he got an olive branch. ]]> 2018-02-08 17:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/229703378 Is the gold medal made of real gold? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/229703696 Actually, no! The gold medal is basically the silver medal, as it is made of the exact same metal but it must be covered with at least 6 grams of pure gold.]]> 2018-02-08 17:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/229703696 Is the bronze medal made of real bronze? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/229704030 The answer is no! The bronze medal is made of copper and tin. ]]> 2018-02-08 17:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/229704030 What kind of events were involved? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231122322 There were also contests held for singing and music along with athletic contests at the Olympics, and you can read about them in books like the Homer’s “The Iliad”, which references the Olympic games, and Virgil’s “Aeneid”. ]]> 2018-02-13 16:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231122322 Did Olympians ever get solid gold medals? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231122774 Yes, they did! The last solid gold medal was handed out in 1912.]]> 2018-02-13 16:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231122774 What kind of prizes did they hand out in the 1800s? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231123415 In 1896, 1st place Olympic winners won olive branches along with their SILVER, not gold, medals, second place left with bronze medals and third left with nothing. ]]> 2018-02-13 16:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231123415 Were "special" prizes ever given out? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231123984 While I think that all prizes from the Olympics are special, I guess you could say that they did. In 2014, winners got “cosmic medals” which has fragments of a meteor that landed in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, exactly one year before. ]]> 2018-02-13 16:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231123984 When was the first snowboarding event? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231124779 The first snowboarding event was held in Nagano in 1998, and the man who won the very first gold medal in this event lost it the very next day because of nanograms of marijuana in his body. ]]> 2018-02-13 16:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231124779 Why THOSE colors on the Olympic symbol? erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231125550 The colors of the Olympic rings are based on the colors of every single countries’ flags. 

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The scrollbar may be needed. ]]> 2018-02-14 01:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231343200 Ross Rebagliati, A.K.A. the first ever snowboarding Olympic gold medalist erymac2024 https://padlet.com/erymac2024/42dgsi2gkv2q/wish/231344022  
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