Did Herschel Walker ever compete in any Olympics games?
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Walker competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics in bobsled, finishing seventh.
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International Olympics Committee 21yrs (1980-2001)\nHe actually stepped down in 2001. A day before he turned 81.
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Hjalmar Anderson. I confirm. Even with the silver and bronze medals nobody was near that
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1900\nWomen were allowed to participate for the first time\n\nhttp://www.olympics.org.uk/olympicmovement/olympicfirsts.asp
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Absolutely.  Haven't you seen the olympics?
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Kazahstan first entered the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994 at the Lillehammer Games where Vladimir Smirnoov won the gold medal in the 50km Nordic Classical Skiing competition as well as two silvers in the 10km Cross Country and 15km Combined events. Since then the following Kazaks have won medals:\n\nAtlanta 1996 Summer Olympics:\n\nVasili Jirov (Gold, Men's Light Heavyweight Boxing)\nBolat Niyazymbetov (Bronze, Men's Light Welterweight Boxing)\nEsmouhan Ibraimov (Bronze, Men's Light Middleweight Boxing)\nYovei Melnichenko (Gold, Men's Bantamweight Greco Roman Wrestling)\nAnatoli Khrapaty (Silver, Men's Light Heavyweight Weightlifting)\nMaulen Mamirow (Bronze, Men's Flyweight Freestyle Wrestling)\nAlexander Parygrin (Gold, Men's Modern Pentathlon)\nSergei Belyayey (Silver, Men's Small Bore Rifle (Prone and 3 Positions))\nVladimir Vochmiamin (Bronze, Men's Rapid Fire Pistol)\n\nNagano 1998 Winter Olympics:\n\nLyudmilla Prokasheva (Bronze, Women's 5,000m Speed Skating)\nVladimir Smirnoov (Bronze, Men's 15km Combined Nordic Cross Country Skiing)\n\nSydney 2000 Summer Olympics:\n\nOlga Shishgina (Gold, Women's 100m Hurdles)\nBekzat Sattarkhanov (Gold, Men's Featherweight Boxing)\nYermakhan Ibraimov (Gold, Men's Light Middleweight Boxing)\nBulat Jumadilov (Silver, Men's Flyweight Boxing)\nMukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Silver, Men's Super Heavyweight Boxing)\nIslam Bairamukov (Silver, Light Heavyweight Wrestling)\nAlexandre Vinokouroiv (Silver, Men's Cycling Road Race)\n\nSalt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics\n\nNo medals won\n\nAs to numbers of atheltes at each games that's a bit more tricky try
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OK, it breaks down like this:\n\nIn 1904, George Poage became the first "black runner" to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 400 metres hurdles, but on the same day Joseph Stadler became the first "black athlete to win an Olympic medal", with a silver in the standing high jump behind the great Ray Ewry. \n\nMany sites still list Poage as being the first...
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gymnastics wasnt in the first olympics if i remember right it first appeared in 1932
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1936\n\nThe 1936 Berlin Olympic Games had been handed to Berlin before the Nazis came to power but now it was the perfect opportunity for Hitler to demonstrate to the world, how efficient the Nazi Germany was. It was also the perfect opportunity for the Nazis to prove to the world the reality of the Master Race. \n\nThe Berlin Olympic Games gave the Nazis an opportunity to show off to the world as 49 countries were competing bringing with them their assorted media. For Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, it was the perfect scenario.\n\nThe vast Olympic stadium was completed on time and held 100,000 spectators. 150 other new Olympic buildings were completed on time for the event. The  anti-Semitic posters that had littered Germany before the games had disappeared. Signs that stated "Jews not welcome here" were not longer visible - anything was done to ensure that the Games went smoothly and caused no upset.\n\nIn fact, the upset was caused in the stadium itself. The 'racially inferior' Owens won four gold medals; in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4 x 100m relay. During the Games he broke 11 Olympic records and defeated Lutz Lang in a very close long jump final. The German was the first to congratulate Owens when the long jump final was over. There were 10 African American members of the American athletics team. Between them they won 7 gold medals, 3 silvers and 3 bronze - more than any national team won in track and field at the Games, except America itself. Hitler refused to place the gold medal around Owen's neck.
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Sorry, but there have been no olympic winter games ten years ago, as Olympic games always are every four years! This year, Germany won!
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Head over to the IOC Olympic Games website... and you would have the following list... You can even jump around the years and find out some interesting facts and figures. As well as results from all of the games. \n\nSUMMER: Athens 1896; Paris 1900; St. Louis 1904; London 1908; Stockholm 1912; Antwerp 1920; Paris 1924; Amsterdam 1928; Los Angeles 1932; Berlin 1936; London 1948; Helsinki 1952; Melbourne 1956; Rome 1960; Tokyo 1964; Mexico City 1968; Munich 1972; Montreal 1976; Moscow 1980; Los Angeles 1984; Seoul 1988; Barcelona 1992; Atlanta 1996; Sydney 2000; Athens 2004; Beijing 2008; London 2012\n\nWINTER: Chamonix 1924; St. Moritz 1928; Lake Placid 1932; Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936; St. Moritz 1948; Oslo 1952; Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956; Squaw Valley 1960; Innsbruck 1964; Grenoble 1968; Sapporo 1972; Innsbruck 1976; Lake Placid 1980; Sarajevo 1984; Calgary 1988; Albertville 1992; Lillehammer 1994; Nagano 1998; Salt Lake City 2002; Torinio 2006; Vancouver 2010
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In the Ancient Olympic Games, women were forbidden to take part. Married women were forbidden to even enter the competition areas as spectators. If they were caught, the punishment was death. Therefore, they created their own Games dedicated to the goddess Hera. Hera was the sister-wife of Zeus. The Olympic Games were dedicated to Zeus. \nWhen the Olympic Games were revived in 1896 even the founder himself, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, did not agree with women's participation in the Games. This issue was the topic of much debate between the initial members of the IOC. However, women did not take part in the Games until 1900 in Paris. It was here that Britain's Charlotte Cooper became the first female gold medallist in the tennis singles competition. Only one other sport saw women's participation in 1900, golf. \n\nIn London at the 1908 Games there were 36 women competitors in the figure skating and tennis events. After these Games and a recommendation from the British Olympic Association that women swimmers, divers and gymnasts be allowed to compete in future Games, the Swedish Organising Committee included two swimming events and one diving contest for women at the 1912 Stockholm Games. \n\nFinally, in 1924 the IOC decided to allow a larger participation of women in the Games. However, there was little evidence of this even by the 1936 Games in Berlin where there were only four sports available to women. \n\nIt was not until after the 1948 Games in London that there was a clearly marked increase in the participation of women in sport around the world. Nevertheless, there were only 5 women's sports in London and 6 sports by the 1968 Games in Mexico. \n\nAfter the 1976 Games, finally a large increase in the number of sports offered to women began to appear. At the 1996 Atlanta Games there were 26 sports and 97 events open to women, which is still far below the 163 events open to men. \n\nHighlights (Source: The Olympic Education Kit, Australian Olympic Committee) \n\n1896 At the first Olympic Games, a Greek woman called Melpomene became the first female to run an unofficial marathon in 4 hours and 30 minutes. \n1900 Tennis player Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain became the first female Olympic champion in the tennis singles. \n1908 Yachtswoman, Frances Clytie Rivett-Carnac and her husband win gold, making her the first woman in any event to win in a competition with men. \n1912 Swimmer, Fanny Durack first woman to win gold in a world-record time. \n1928 The collapse of several runners at the end of the 800m saw the race declared dangerous for women and banned. \n1948 Triumphant Fanny Blakers-Koen of the Netherlands breaks new ground as the first mother successful at the Olympic Games. She won four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and 100m hurdles. \n1952 The first women ever to compete in equestrian sport (against men). \n1956 The first woman, Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (Italy), in Olympic history to take the athletes' oath at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games. \n1968 Mexico's Enriqueta Basilio becomes the first woman to light the Olympic flame in the stadium. The 800m women's event is re-instated. \n1972 70 year old British equestrian competitor, Lorna Johnstone became the oldest ever female Olympian. \n1973 The IOC decided that women could be proposed as IOC members. \n1980 The greatest mother-daughter Olympic success - when Soviet runner Irin Nazarova, daughter of 1952 discus medallist Elizabeth Bagrinaseva, won gold in the relay. \n1981 Pirjo Haggman (Finland) and Flor Isava-Fonseca (Venezuela) became the first women IOC members. \n1982 Dame Mary Glen-Haig (Great Britain) was elected member of the IOC. \n1984 Princess Nora of Liechtenstein was elected member of the IOC. Joan Benoit (USA) wins the first women's Olympic marathon. \n1988 HRH the Princess Royal (Great Britain) was elected member of the IOC. Tennis returns to the Games, with the inequitable agreement that f
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The year that croquet debuted in the Olympics was during the Olympiad II in Paris, France at the turn of the 20th century in 1900.  The event was dominated by the French in all of the categories winning all of the possible seven medals.  Their was only one other person that was of non-French heritage that entered, but he did not finish the first round.  This edition of the Summer Olympic Games was also part of the Paris World Fair.
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I guess Jacque Jones -- went 15 for 38, with 5 HRs and 13 RBIs in the Olympics.\nBest pitcher was R.A. Dickey -- 2-0 with 3.00 ERA in 2 games.
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first olympic sport? that was the foot race. (sprinting) in athens i think
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Not the Ancient Greeks, if this Wikipedia entry is correct:\n\nThe 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics. They were actually part of the 1924 Summer Olympics. All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.\nContents
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Sure.\n\n"The 1996 Olympian has beaten her competition at every level, from winning a city championship in the 25-yard butterfly race at 8, to swimming on the golden 800-meter medley relay team in the Atlanta Games."