Do you have any idea how many Olympic wrestling medals have been won by athletes from Finland and Sweden?

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Further back in history, Confucius would have been appalled by the very idea of the Olympic games, never mind the sour grapes.

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So when the women's 100m champion is crowned at the London Games on Saturday, it is unlikely the champion or the vast majority of the 80, 000 crowd in the Olympic Stadium will have the faintest idea who Robinson was.

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It was Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, who first conceived the idea of a marriage between sport and the arts.

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The Olympic-rowing twins, who say their idea for Harvard Connect (later renamed ConnectU) was what Facebook CEO, founder and now billionaire Mark Zuckerberg stole to create Facebook, really do seem to contradict themselves, though.

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His idea of birthday relaxation is competing in an Olympic-style athletic tournament with friends, keeping close score.

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He's created classes for men called "BROga, " and while he's not on the Olympic yoga bandwagon, he sees little wrong with the idea of friendly competition.

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Rather, the idea of a relay from Greece to the Olympic venue was revived by the Nazis for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which is hardly a precedent China wants to advertise.

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The idea for this trip must have been that simply seeing Mr Romney in an Olympic setting would remind potential voters of what many would see as his greatest achievement: turning around the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.

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London Mayor's adviser on Olympic legacy, Neale Coleman, said Lord Coe, who spearheaded the games, thought the idea would be a "fantastic follow-up".

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