The Olympic Games are approaching at the speed of light, which means a lot of such events for sports fans. Before leaving for Soča, the national team will present themselves to the media and fans, who will, among other things, write February 3, when it will be Slovenian hockey day, in their calendars.
What drives Olympic athletes to excellence? Immense love for what they do. In the spirit of often self-sacrificing and painful, but at the same time fruitful and sweet, we bring from Russia the happiest kisses of the past. Warm scenes that remind of the true essence of the Olympic Games - peaceful bonding through the love of sport.
Golf is returning to the Olympic Games after 112 years! The Spaniard Sergio Garcia will also take part in the Rio 2016 Olympics, who says that for him, taking part in the Olympics will be a dream come true. This is how he thinks before the start, which will be on August 5, 2016.
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?
Just like the Olympic rings, which are a constant star in the Olympic sky, the Olympic logos of the individual Olympic Games are also an inseparable part of the Olympics, with the difference that they differ from Games to Games. We've scoured the historical archives and below you can see everything from the Athens 1896 Olympics to the Rio 2016 Olympics and everything in between.
German twins Anna and Lisa Hahner finished 81st and 82nd in the marathon and would probably have gone unnoticed if they hadn't crossed the finish line holding hands. Instead of the moment going down as one of the most moving of the Rio 2016 Olympics, the Germans became the target of criticism as the move was self-promotional, with the director of the German Athletics Federation, Thomas Kurschilgen, even saying that their performance looked like olympic match one big joke. What is your opinion?
It's not easy being a top athlete. Sport at the highest level requires a lot of sacrifices. The same applies to the "profession" of mother, which also requires a great deal of patience and many sacrifices. But no matter how tiring it is, just like in top-class sports, all the effort pays off in the end. Maybe the reward doesn't come in the form of a medal, the medal mom gets around her neck is her child's smile, his kiss on her cheek before bed, a hug, or a drawing he drew just for her. No matter how hard parenting is, comparable to the training of a top athlete, just like athletes, mothers know that it will pay off someday. Mother will not experience the acceptance for her successful upbringing, as Tina Trstenjak will, but her mother and father are to a large extent responsible for it.
So far, 43 different sports have been present in the Olympic program at the Summer Olympics. The current program of the Summer Olympics includes 28 sports with 38 disciplines. In the past, many sports were also present at the Olympic Games, which we will not see at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Such are tug-of-war and hot air ballooning. This year, after more than 100 years, golf returned to the list, and in 2014 the International Olympic Committee removed the restriction that only 28 sports could be represented at the Olympic Games, which was often the main reason that certain sports fell out of the program. The limit is now 10,500 athletes and 310 events, which will apply for the first time at POI Tokyo 2020.
Many athletes like to decorate their enviable body with various tattoos. Even in the Slovenian Olympic team, there are some who wear tattoos. The tennis player Polona Hercog is certainly the most noticeable, and the kayaker Peter Kauzer, who has a tattoo of a lion with a crown on his shoulder, is not far behind. But those two are far from the only ones we spotted with tattoos at the Rio 2016 Olympics. We have collected only the best ones, from a little more flashy to minimalist, among which the motif of the Olympic rings clearly dominates. These are the most beautiful tattoos we spotted at the Rio Olympics.
Today at midnight CET, the 2016 Summer Olympics begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 28th time in a row. You can watch the opening ceremony live on TV Slovenija 2 or online on MMC TV. Rio 2016 is the first Olympic Games in South America, and there will also be a strong Slovenian expedition. Find out below when we expect the first Slovenian performances.
It is less than three weeks until the start of the biggest sporting event of the year, the Winter Olympics in Sochi (soccer fans would be able to dispute this, as Brazil will host the 20th FIFA World Cup between June 9 and July 9), and preparations for it have been underway since in 2007.
Despite the fact that sportsmanship and healthy competition are at the fore at the Olympic Games, the promotion of the country, which sportsmen and women take care of with their results, should not be neglected. Willingly or unwittingly, they also draw attention to themselves through the appearance of the official national team uniforms that Olympians and Paralympians wear at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, during the competitive part of the Games and in their free time in the Olympic Village.