General

Knowledge
Enrichment Activity
Grade II
20.11.2021
 Why there are 5 rings
in Olympics?

Africa, Asia, America, Europe and Oceania were

symbolized by the five rings, which represented the five
participating continents at the time.
 Colours of Olympics
rings

The five colours of the Olympic rings (Blue, Yellow,

Black, Green and Red) were chosen because every
country in the globe has at least one of these five
colours in their flag.
 BASKETBALL
Basketball was invented in
December 1891 by Canadian
James W. Naismith.

He found this when he was trying to find a

suitable indoor game to keep his students
fit and warm during the cold New England
winters.
 BASKETBALL
Basketball was played with peach
baskets, and balls had to be
retrieved manually after each
score.

Basketball was originally played with a

soccer ball. The first balls made
specifically for basketball were brown.
 FOOTBALL
Football has its roots in ancient
China. Modern football has its
origins in the streets of medieval
England.

Since the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta,

African and South American teams have
won all the gold medals.
FOOTBALL
In 1996, women’s football was
introduced into the Olympic
programme.
 SWIMMING
Swimming was featured on the
programme of all editions of the
Games since 1896.

Women’s swimming became Olympic in

1912 at the Stockholm Games.
 TRAMPOLINE
The first modern trampoline was built
by George Nissen and Larry Griswold.

Trampolining made its first appearance at

the 2000 Games in Sydney, with men’s
and women’s competitions.
 ROWING
Rowing was first used as a means
of transport in ancient Egypt,
Greece and Rome.

Sir Steve Redgrave of Great Britain is

widely hailed as the greatest rower ever.
 HURDLES

A hurdles race is one in which

obstacles are placed at intervals along
the track that the runners must jump
over on their way to the finish line.
 The Paralympic Games or Para-Olympics, also
known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a series
of international multi-sport events involving
athletes with a range of physical disabilities.
Indian Hockey player Balbir Singh holds a record
of maximum goals in an Olympic final when he
scored 5 goals in India’s 6-1 win against the
Netherlands. The record is still unbeaten.
Art was a part of the Olympic games until the 1948
Olympics and Chintamoni Kar a sculptor from
West Bengal won a silver medal for Great Britain.
First Indian individual Olympic gold medal
winner – Abhinav Bindra.
Mahatma Gandhi was once a news reporter. And
he covered Olympics in the 1932 edition at Los
Angeles.