We know it's our first Olympics and other teams have been together longer than us but we're going to compete.
Hunt pointed out that 64% of the GB team in Canada are competing at their first Olympics, and 17% are 21 or under.
For instance, Sydney is the first Olympics in which NBC is in competition with the host city to find advertisers for their respective Web sites.
In 2008, his first Olympics as head coach, Team USA was nicknamed the Redeem Team, and the U.S. team in 2012 was so loaded that it earned comparisons to the 1992 Dream Team.
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So I want, by a show of hands -- or maybe screams -- because you all scream -- how many kids, for you, is this your first Olympics that you will see or hear about?
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Having all the medals in one place illustrates their evolution and you can learn interesting trivia, like the fact that the first modern Olympics in 1896 lacked gold (silver was first place, bronze second and third place finishers received no medal), and since 1972, host cities have been free to change the design of one medal, usually the silver.
Though the first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix, France in 1924 Africa had to wait until 1960 for its first competitor to participate.
Then, in 1924, the first Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France.
Although games in one form or another had almost certainly been held earlier, tradition maintains that the first proper Olympics took place in 776 BC at Olympia in the Greek Peleponnese -- hence the competition's name.
Her vision expanded over the years, and in July 1968 the first International Special Olympics Games were held in Chicago.
In another first, NBC Olympics Live Extra will provide multiple concurrent streams for select sports, such as gymnastics (each apparatus), track and field (each event), and tennis (up to five courts).
In what many commentators have been calling the first social media Olympics, some fans found a disconnect between the inability to tune into live video and the boom of live coverage on blogs, Twitter and Facebook Inc. and many news websites (including The Wall Street Journal's).
In 2004, Pistorius took his first gold at the Athens Paralympics and one year later competed against able-bodied Olympics for the first time, at the South African Championships.
Well, just imagine, what if Hannah had said that after her first efforts at the Olympics?
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Lizzie Armitstead, from Otley, won Team GB's first medal of the Olympics, taking silver in the women's road race.
But last year they made the decision to head to Salt Lake City to watch the Winter Olympics at first hand.
Benoit won the first women's Olympics marathon in 1984, the same era of the record-breaking South African Zola Budd, who ran barefoot.
The first app, NBC Olympics Live Extra, will allow cable, satellite and telco customers to live stream more than 3, 500 hours of content, including all 32 sports, every athletic competition and all 302 medal events.
Following her first meet since the Olympics, last week's contest against Highlands Ranch High School, so many rival swimmers asked to pose for photographs with Franklin that she missed the beginning of her team's post-meet cheer.
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In 1994, thieves brought a ladder to a window at the National Gallery on the first day of the Olympics in Lillehammer and took the work, leaving a note in its place thanking the museum for its lousy security.
She rocked the world of sports by gracefully competing at the London Olympics and becoming the first American gymnast to win team and all-around gold in the same Olympics.
Days later, Daley suffered disappointment at his first event of the London Olympics.
With a little more effort and a slice of luck, he will become Britain's first triathlon medallist at an Olympics.
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Lizzie Armitstead won Britain's first medal of the 2012 Olympics, taking silver in the women's road race on day two.
For example, my good friend, Apolo Ohno first tried out for the Olympics back in 1998, and he came in last.
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Stanning, and rowing partner Helen Glover, triumphed in the women's pair for what was Team GB's first gold at the London Olympics.
When I was a kid following the Olympics for the first time in 1960, America's best male sprinter, Ray Norton, had a disastrous run of misfortune.
On Sunday it was announced that the two Koreas would march together at the Olympics for the first time since the armed truce that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.
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