It takes years of training and perseverance to win the Olympics. The team at Runrepeat.com analyzed more than 16,027 medal winners from 51 Olympic Games (from 1896 to 2018) and their birth dates to determine which zodiac signs possess the ability and tenacity to compete and succeed at the Olympics.
"It's important to participate, not to win!" Well, yes. Anyway. The Olympic Games are considered the biggest and most important sporting event in the world and for many athletes they represent the pinnacle of their careers. Of course, there are also sports industries that have other, more important events. But none, except OI, date back to about 2,800 years ago. Paris is in the running to host the 2024 Games and special awards have been prepared to mark the occasion.
Will future Olympic medals be made from recycled phones? Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are considering making medals from recycled metals obtained from recycled smartphones and other electronics in a bid to contribute to a cleaner environment.
Who will play Zdravljica in Rio? We are less than a hundred days away from the start of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Slovenia travels there in numbers, but despite this, in the competition of more than 12 thousand athletes from over 200 countries, the Slovenian representatives cannot expect as rich a collection of medals as from the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Or is it? Infostrada Sports, a sports data crunching company, predicts three gold medals and one bronze medal. And who should win them?
Slovenia, which today also broke the record for medals won at the Olympic Games with yet another gold medal by Tina Maze, is also ahead of all countries participating in this year's Winter Olympics in terms of the number of medals won in relation to the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The other athletes also achieve historic results and delight the Slovenians every day, who enthusiastically cheer for each and every one of them in front of the television screens.