The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad will be inaugurated in Paris on July 26, 2024. To entertain the wait, EFE proposes a weekly question and answer questionnaire with the aim of learning about Olympic history and its great protagonists.
1. The Portuguese athlete Francisco Lázaro is the first athlete to die in an Olympic competition, in the marathon at the 2012 Stockholm Games. What was the cause?
(to) He collapsed
(b) He fell down an embankment
(c) He died as a result of drug use.
2. What was the reason why Spain boycotted the 1956 Melbourne Games?
(to) The Soviet invasion of Hungary
(b) Some criticism from the Australian ambassador to the Franco regime
(c) The quarantine imposed on Spanish horses
3. Olympic champion in Tokyo 1964 and NBA champion in 1970 and 1973 with the New York Knicks, the American basketball player Bill Bradley was in the news years later because…
(to) He was a Nobel Prize winner in Economics
(b) He was a candidate to preside over the United States
(c) He was a candidate for president of the IOC
4. Who was the last Tour de France winner who was also an Olympic champion?
(to) Miguel Indurain
(b) Geraint Thomas
(c) Tadej Pogacar
5. The medals that will be awarded at the Paris 2024 Games have embedded…
(to) A pebble from the Seine River
(b) A stone saved from the Notre-Dame fire
(c) A piece of metal from the Eiffel Tower
Answers:
1. (a): Fernando Lázaro collapsed at km 30. He had anointed his body with wax, thinking that this would improve his speed, but all the ointment did was make it difficult to sweat, so his body temperature exceeded 41 degrees.
2. (a): Spain – like Switzerland, Holland and Liechtenstein – boycotted the 1956 Games in protest against the Russian invasion of Hungary. However, he did participate in the equestrian events that were held six months earlier in Stockholm due to strict Australian quarantine legislation for animals.
3. (b): Bill Bradley was a senator for three terms and sought the presidential nomination for the Democratic Party in the 2000 elections, but lost to Al Gore.
4. (b): The British Geraint Thomas, winner of the Tour de France in 2018, has two Olympic golds, in team pursuit in 2008 and 2012.
5. (c): All medals from the Paris Games contain a piece of metal that was once part of the Eiffel Tower.
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Source: Gestion
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