The first time in history that the Games were postponed, though they had been canceled during World War I (1916) and World War II (1940 and 1944) and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Olympic gold medals are not made entirely of gold. They are mostly silver with a thin layer of pure gold. The last fully gold medals were awarded in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
The youngest confirmed Olympic medalist is Dimitrios Loundras of Greece, who won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the age of 10 years and 218 days in the 1896 Athens Olympics.
Women first competed in the modern Olympics in 1900 in Paris. The events they participated in included tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrian, and golf.
The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius," which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger."
As a tradition, the Olympic flame dates back to the ancient Olympics, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the Games.
The colors (blue, yellow, black, green, and red) were chosen because at least one appears in every national flag in the world.
The five interlocking rings of the Olympic symbol represent the five inhabited continents of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin revived the modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece around 776 BC and the Olympic games were held in Olympia.