Win a Nikon Super Zoom Digital Camera with Electric Ireland

anphash

The Community Games does not automatically qualify you for the Olympics

confusedeire

cycling is my favourite hobbie gets the heart rate up and no impact until I fall off

livdmg

Really looking forward to the Tennis at Wimbledon in the Olympics.

Venus and Serena Williams have 5 Gold medals Between them. Venus 3 Serena 2

Alidee

Charities will be given the sports equipment used in the London Olympics Games 2012 for free. Nice touch:o

trihead

Yachtsman Hank Lammens was disqualified from the 1992 games for forgetting his life jacket.

GiveEmHellKid

My favorite Olympic fact: The Olympics where held in London for the first time 1908. They where set to take place in Italy but where moved to London because of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It was only the third time modern games where held outside of Greece!

KCW

Fav keep fit activity is swimming, exercises so many muscles and good aerobically!

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By 2010 only three countries had never sent female athletes to the Games : Brunei, Saudia Arabia and Qatar

FizzleSticks

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christ on a bike!

Motor boating was an official sport at the 1908 Olympics

Peetrik

Favorite sports are: Muay Thai, Running and Cycling

thedk

Nadia Comăneci was the first person in the history of the Olympic Games to score a perfect 10 in Gymnastics. After doing so, the scoreboard read 1.0 instead of 10 because the manufacturers assumed a score of 10 was impossible. She achieved this feat at the age of 14...an unmatchable achievement by todays rules, where the minimum age for competing is 16.

seany76

olympic fact ... i will never take part :P

smallgarden

Zumba,funniest most fun exercise class I've ever been to and quite effective too!

Beekay

Love 5 a side football to keep fit!

WannabeDolly

Horseriding is my sport of choice. It's one of the few sports where men and woman can compete equally. What I like most about horse-riding is the unpredictable nature of putting all of your trust in a living breathing animal. Many people find it therapeutic because you're too busy trying to keep yourself alive to worry about anything else!

davetherave

Best keep-fit activity is definitely a good american football training session.

You have to be fit to keep getting up after being knocked over on your bum

Ghall

I love Tennis, great for keeping fit but I do prefer to watch it on TV! Loved the Wimbleton final yesterday!

Mikros

The Winter Olympics were first held in Chamonix, France in 1924. Fact.

Vahevala

Olympic fact for you all...

John Pius Boland, (1870-1958) won a gold medal in tennis singles on 30 March, 1896 at the Summer Olympics in Athens. He also won the doubles. He is the first Irishman to win an Olympic gold medal

Profiler

Favorite sport: Decathlon. The athlete can't win by being a good sprinter, or middle distance runner. He or she needs to master so many disciplines to succeed. So many techniques need to mastered it's incredible what they put themselves through.

pawrick

An Olympiad is a period of four successive years with the Olympic Games celebrating each Olympiad.

shive

The 5 ringed symbol of the Olympics represent the 5 continents where athletes hail from.

tricky D

Austin1 wrote: »

Sir Roger Bannister ran a sub-4-minute mile in 1954 for the first time ever - he achieved what many had thought was impossible.

In the next two years five more men achieved this feat.

My dad saw that. Here's the original race card with his note of the time 3' 59.4"



The Olympic Torch Relay ie. lighting it in Olympia and bringing it on tour, was devised by Carl Diem and organised as a propaganda stunt by Joseph Goebbels for the 1936 Munich Games. Prior to that it was just lit locally in the host city.

XxMCRxBabyxX

I'm not a sporty person but I do love going for random walks! It's the one advantage of living in Wicklow!

callie35

My favourite keep fit...? Stationary bike! :-) Comfort of my own home, rain or shine, don't have to worry about looking good, just blast out the best music and off I go!!

dublinbusdude

London 2012 Paralympic games will be shown on Channel 4 & RTE for the first time in its history

AlekSmart

An Electric Ireland Nikon would come in very handy for my chosen Olympic Sport.....Bus Spotting....not many people know that it is of Olympic stature,but I do,cos Leyland Motors Limited even named one of their products after the gig...hence the Leyland Olympian,several hundred of which set new records every day on Dublin's Streets !!

escargotbleu

I'm looking forward to watching Usain Bolt at the 2012 Olympics!

dublinbusdude

AlekSmart wrote: »

An Electric Ireland Nikon would come in very handy for my chosen Olympic Sport.....Bus Spotting....not many people know that it is of Olympic stature,but I do,cos Leyland Motors Limited even named one of their products after the gig...hence the Leyland Olympian,several hundred of which set new records every day on Dublin's Streets !!

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