Olympic Trivia

Over the past 117 years only three Olympic Games have been cancelled and in every case it was due to a World War. (1916, 1940 & 1944)

Not many people know that the Olympic Torch Relay from Olympia in Greece to the Olympic Stadium of the host city is not an ancient tradition. It's actually less than 100 years old and was conceived by Carl Diem and first introduced at the 1936 Berlin Games during the early years of the Third Reich.