Year 5 - OlympicsTimeline

1. There were gold medals in the first Olympic Games.

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• False

2. There weren't any games in 1916.

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• False

3. Inge Sorensen was a swimmer from Ethiopia.

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• False

4. Abebe Bikila was a marathon runner.

• True

• False

5. Golf and rugby were Olympic sports for the first time in 2012.

• True

• False

6. Although table-tennis is one of the most popular sports in the world, it only appeared in the Olympics in 2016.

• True

• False

7. A twelve-year-old swimmer from Denmark was the youngest medallist in Olympic history.

• True

• False

8. The first Winter Olympics was held in France in 1924.

• True

• False

9. The longest competition in Olympic history was a horse-riding in 1912.

• True

• False

10. The next Olympic Games will be in 2024 in Paris.

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• False