Olympic Facts

If you are planning the long bottom flattening event tomorrow that is watching the 2016 Summer Olympics Kudos to you.  For hundreds of years now we have been arm chair shot putters and marathon runners but for how many hundreds of years you ask?? Mental Floss to the rescue with some well known facts like starting to honor Zeus and some little known facts like when the games were first televised and why, plus...

• 1900 was the first time women were allowed to compete
• Events removed from the Olympics over the years include, croquet, tug of war, pistol dueling, art competition, cricket, lacrosse and polo
• 1912 was the first photo finish
• 1992 was the last time the winter and summer Olympics were held in the same year