Comments | elora_c: Olympic trivia

elora_c

Olympic trivia

Aug 11, 2008 07:56

Yesterday I spent some time explaining to Sparky that men and women don't compete together in the events, and that a world record broken by a woman swimmer doesn't mean she just broke the recently broken world record in the same men's event. Today I'm planning on showing him some equestrian, and I was going to tell him that in this case, men and ( Read more... )

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shiny_bauble August 11 2008, 13:12:37 UTC

Interesting.

Boo. I got none of the answers correct. I guessed the singleton, but had the wrong sport.

ohsochewy August 11 2008, 14:05:20 UTC

Fencing? Judo? Shootin'?

ohsochewy August 11 2008, 14:11:52 UTC

There's a tramampoline competition in the Olympics?

fish_tie August 11 2008, 18:22:14 UTC

I would have to say mix doubles tennis and badminton... I will have to check later to see if I am right.

And the answer is... elora_c August 11 2008, 22:07:56 UTC

Sailing - Open class Tornado
Badminton - Mixed doubles

I guessed that sailing would have something. I thought there would be more than one medal out of 11, but that's all there is. For the other, I had guessed shooting and tennis before we finally found it under badminton.

Re: And the answer is... shiny_bauble August 12 2008, 03:12:05 UTC

NBCOlympics say 1 mixed event for sailing, but Wikipedia says 3 (4 mens, 4 womens, 3 mixed). Anyone have a 3rd source?

Re: And the answer is... elora_c August 12 2008, 12:07:16 UTC

Very interesting. According to the official site of the 2008 Olympics, there are 3 mixed:

• 49er - Skiff Mixed
• Finn - Heavyweight Dinghy Mixed
• Tornado - Multihull Mixed

http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/sailing/index.shtml

Maybe even though those other two are mixed, they only have men competing in them, so NBC is listing them as men's?