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| eggshaped
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| 146408. Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:31 am |
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| Yeah, shame, we could have stolen "Feel the Sportsman" off TTIAO. Don't suppose we can do "feel the cadaver". |
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| MatC
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| 146413. Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:42 am |
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| That first photo would be absolutely perfect, Bob! Was it taken at roughly the same age that he won the medal? If so, nobody is ever going to guess his event. |
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| 146415. Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:47 am |
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| Quote: | | He's one of only two men to have won medals both for sport and art. In the very first olympics in 1896 he won two gold medals for swimming (presumably when the photo was taken). |
This is going to sound terribly anal, but the winners of olympic events in 1896 didn't win gold medals, but silver medals, an olive wreath and a diploma. [/pedant] |
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| 146418. Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:49 am |
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| MatC wrote: | | Was it taken at roughly the same age that he won the medal? If so, nobody is ever going to guess his event. |
Sadly there's no indication of his age when the photo was taken. However, he would have been 59 when he won his medal, so it doesn't look as though it's too far off. |
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| 146421. Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:54 am |
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| eggshaped wrote: | | This is going to sound terribly anal |
Surely not! ;-)
| eggshaped wrote: | | but the winners of olympic events in 1896 didn't win gold medals, but silver medals, an olive wreath and a diploma. [/pedant] |
I didn't know that. So what did the second place people win? Did they just get a silver medal without a diploma?
According to Bunter's website of olympic facts, Alfréd Hajós is down as winning "gold":
http://www.databaseolympics.com/country/countryyear.htm?g=1&cty=HUN
Though I guess they might just be using that to mean he came first without having to explain about the different way things were done back then. |
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| 146422. Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:56 am |
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The 1936 games were the first to incorperate an olympic flame relay, they were also the first to be televised - twenty-five big screens were erected throughout Berlin. They were famous for the four gold medals won by Jesse Owens, and for America's Marjorie Gestring, at 13 still the youngest ever female winner of a gold medal.
What did this man:
win a silver medal for? |
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| eggshaped
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| 146427. Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:00 am |
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Athens 1896:
First place winners were awarded a silver medal, an olive branch and a diploma. Those in second place were given a copper medal, a branch of laurel and a diploma. |
I think third place got bugger-all.
We talked about this when we were posting questions for the interactive dvd.
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| 146428. Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:01 am |
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I just noticed, that youngest ever female gold-winner is called Marjorie G-string. Brilliant.
How are we going to shoe-horn this into "E" if we want it pre-GI? |
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| MatC
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| 146436. Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:24 am |
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| E for Effort? |
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| 146462. Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:19 am |
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Excellence in sport? (for the loosest possible definition of sport)
Esoteric events?
Endeavours?
Since he won the medal for town planning, might it come under the loose heading of "Erections"? |
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| 146463. Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:20 am |
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| Quote: | | Since he won the medal for town planning, might it come under the loose heading of "Erections"? |
I think we have a winner. Hand that man a diploma. |
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| dr.bob
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| 146464. Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:21 am |
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| Stuff the diploma, where's my olive branch?! |
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| 146466. Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:30 am |
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| It would be good in an 'Eccentrics' show. Otherwise, it's a great display of 'Excellence', 'Endeavours', or...most obviously..."Events" |
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