- The Summer Olympic sports are archery, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe / kayak, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, jumping, running, mountain biking, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, swimming,
synchronized swimming, shooting, fencing, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, track and field, triathlon (swimming, biking, running), volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, and wrestling.
- The Winter Olympic sports are alpine skiing, bobsled, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hocky, luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping and cross-country skiing), skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating. and target shooting.
- Beginning in 1994, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to change the format of having both the Summer and Winter Games in the same year. Summer and Winter Olympics now alternate every two years.
- The U.S. set its new record for the highest total of medals won at a
single Olympic Winter Games with 37 at the 2010
Vancouver Winter Olympics. The team won 25 in
Turin, Italy (2006), 34 in
Salt Lake City, UT (2002), and 13 in
Nagano, Japan (1998).
- At a 2005 meeting in Singapore the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to eliminate baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympics, the first sports to be dropped since polo in 1936.
- Germany had set 36 medals (record) at Salt Lake City in 2002, and was the only nation to win a medal in every day of competition at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics (30 medals).
- The host Greece has won the most medals (47) at the first Summer Olympics held in Athens in 1896.
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Norway has won the most medals (263) at the 1924 Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France.
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The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.
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Baltimore Orioles baseball player, Cal Ripken, Jr. never missed a game in 16 years. He
played in 2,632 consecutive games.
- San Francisco's slugger
Barry Bonds broke the all-time single-season
record for home runs when he hit 73 in 2001.
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Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
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Soccer is the most watched sport in the world.
- The
Dallas Cowboys and
San Francisco 49ers
set the record for most Super Bowl
wins. Each team had 5 Super Bowl titles.
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The four
Grand Slam tournaments -
Wimbledon,
U.S. Open,
French Open, and
Australian Open - are the most yearly important tennis events in terms of world ranking points and prize-money awarded.
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Slazenger has provided all the tennis ball for Wimbledon tournament since 1902. About 42,000 tennis balls are used for each Wimbledon tournament.
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The International Tennis Hall of Fame is founded in 1954. It is a non-profit tennis hall of fame and museum at the
Newport Casino in
Newport,
Rhode Island, USA.
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The first Wimbledon Championship was held at the
All England Club in the London suburb of Wimbledon in 1877.
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American professional tennis player Michael Chang hold most significant youngest-ever record when he won the French
Open at the age of 17 years and 3 months in 1989, to become the youngest male player ever to win a Grand Slam title.
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Swiss professional tennis player Martina Hingis became the youngest women's tennis player and was ranked number 1 in the world at the
young age of 16, in 1997.
- In 1985 Germany's
Boris Becker won the Wimbledon tournament at the young age of 17.
- As a tennis amateur, Australia's Rod Laver won all four men's
Grand Slam titles in 1962.
- American tennis player
Pete Sampras is tennis's all-time biggest money winner with $43,280,489 in his 15-year career earnings.
- British tennis player Greg Rusedski had the world's fastest serve (149 mph); he served 685 aces, accounting for 79% of his points in 1999.
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Fishing is the most participant sports in the world.
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