Olympics games are considered as the leading international sporting events. The events include various sorts of summer and winters games. Thousands of athletes, belonging to different nations and cultures take part in these gaming events accounting for a total of nearly 200 nations. Olympic game events held after every 4 years.
These events are inspired by the game of Olympia that uses to hold in Greece every year from 8th century BC to 4th century AD. Hence, after the introduction of Modern Olympics, the international Olympic committee was founded by Barren Pierre. The committee decides the structure and functional organization of the game in every event.
1.The Top Watch-Outs In 2014
The various players that are expected to top the charts of world Olympic series includes Hannah Kearny, the free style skier to win gold medal in 2010 Olympics, Noelle Pikus-Pace, winner of 5 medals at the FIBT championship as skeleton racer, Lindsey Vonn, the ski racer and winner of gold medal at winter Olympics 2010, etc.
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2. Staggering Social Media Statistics From The Olympics
Near about 306 billion pieces of content were shared on the open internet about the 2012 Olympic games on the 17th day of the event. This is equivalent to near about 208,333 shares per every second. Famous runner Usain Bolt used only 9.63 seconds to run a 100 meter distance and by the time he might have reached the finish line, there were around 2 million items shared about the Olympics on the internet.
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3. Olympic Sponsors Go For Gold Online
The various famous social media sponsors in the games of Olympics includes the Coca-cola Company, Mc-Donald’s, Visa, Acer, Panasonic, Samsung, Omega, P&G, Atos, etc. For each twitter follower of these brands, there are nearly 53 Facebook fans and for each YouTube subscriber there are near about 750 Facebook fans.
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4. The London 2012 Socialympics
Social media have turned into a major medium of promotions of the Olympic Games nowadays. The number of summer Olympics viewers on the various social media networks are growing with the increasing years. It was 3.6 billion in year 2000, 3.9 billion in 2004, 4.7 billion in 2008 and 4.9 billion in 2012.
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5. Top Apps For The London Summer Olympics
The top applications for the London summer Olympics includes the official applications by the London gaming organization Committee namely the events, results, medals, team USA and London, summer game London office, official game, count down, fan app, medal tracker, Live extra, NBC Olympics, etc.
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6. Beijing Vs London Socialympics Graph
There were 17% more views of the opening ceremony of the Olympic games of London than that of Beijing, which makes a total of 40.7 million views. The total social media sales of the Beijing Olympics was near about $850 millions, however the total social media advertisement sale amount of the London Olympics was $1 billion.
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7. Top Ten Olympic Skiers
The top ten famous Olympics skiers include Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso, Picabo Street, Tommy Moe, Alberto Tomba, Hermann Maier, Jean-Claude Killy, Benjamin Raich, Jonny Mosely and Bjorn Daehlie.
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8. Econolympics
The 1996 Olympics held in Atlanta were a total expenditure of $2.4 billion. The total cost of the 2000 Sydney Olympics was near about $6.8 billion. The cost of holding the 2004 Olympics at Athens was nearly $ 15 billion; nearly $40 billion was spent at Beijing Olympics in year 2008. An amount of $18 billion was spent in London Olympics in year 2012.
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9. Why You Should Escape The UK This Olympics
The official cost of food inside the Olympic village is approximated around ₤ 1.60 for a bottle of water, ₤ 8.00 for fish and chips, ₤8.50 for curry, ₤4.20 for beer (330 ML) and ₤4.80 for 1/4 bottle of wine.
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10. The Education Olympics
United States can be ranked on the first position in the contest of the country winning the maximum number of gold medals. The total gold medals won by various countries are 929 by USA, 247 by Germany, 207 by the Great Britain, 191 by Italy and France, 163 by China, 159 by Hungry, 142 by Sweden, 131 by Australia and 123 by Japan.
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11. What Small Businesses Think About The Olympics
It is a matter of pride and honor for any country to hold an Olympic event, however, from the business point of view it can also be proven as a major economic backdrop for a nation. Data revealed that only 1 out of 10 people believe that hosting Olympic events will have a short time positive benefit on their businesses.
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12. The Engineering Of The Olympics
The Beijing Water cube Venue which was used for swimming and diving sports is being used as Indoor water Park. The Moscow Olympic stadium, which was used for track and field sports and for opening ceremony is being used as Soccer match stadium today. The Athens Aquatic center diving pool used for diving sports is unused and disrepair today.
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13. What Do Social Media Users Know About the Olympics?
A survey conducted about the Olympics games reveals the fact that 95% of the people agreed that they have watched the events and 5% denied of watching it. 93% among them agreed that they have watched the recent 2012 Olympics games.
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14. Costly London Olympics
It is being stated that the London Olympics of year 2012 is the most expensive game till now and is expected to cost near about $2 to every person on this globe. It was also found that the London Olympics was 101% over budget game.
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15. 50 Crazy Facts About The Winter Olympics
The first Winter Olympics games in 1924 were held in Chamonix in France. It saw near about 16 nations competing in 16 events in 6 sports and in 3 venues.
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16. How Was Twitter Used During The Olympics?
Near about 10 million social media users mentioned about the opening ceremony of the London Olympics game 2012 in their posts and statuses over the internet.60% of them posted positive remarks about the game, however, 40% remarked it negative.
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17. Canada's Standing At The London 2012 Olympics
The total medals captured by Canada in Summer Olympics games are 260. Out of which 58 were gold, 94 silver and 104 bronze. It ranked on 13th position in the 2012 London Olympics games.
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18. How Social Media Will Change the Olympics
The Olympic Games started being followed through the medium of newspapers in 1890s, through Radio in 1936, through television in 1964, through internet in 1999, through social media in year 2004 and continuing since then.
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19. The Magic Number To Follow Taekwondo At The Olympics
The London Olympic games 2012 are said to be the fourth Olympic Games to include the game of Taekwondo as a full medal sport. The object of the game is to land kicks and Punches on opponent’s scoring zone.
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20. Gold Medal Offered At 2012 London Olympics
The total number of gold medals that were offered in year 2012 London Olympics was 307. The standard cost of London gold is ₤450.
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