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The Olympics are a global sport, every country feels proud of his outfit. However, there are secrets not known by all peoples. Here are 10 facts about the five circus

1. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee decided to send his heart to the site of ancient Olympia, Greece, where it is preserved in a monument. And the rest he was buried in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2. Chicago was supposed to host the Olympic Games of 1904, but St. Louis has stolen away. The Games were a fiasco. Only 14 of the 32 participants finished the marathon, held in the heat 90 degrees with only one water well at the 12-mile mark. Marathoner Cuban Felix Carvajal, who lost his money in the craps game in New Orleans, hitchhiking St. Louis and ran the race in street shoes. He stopped to chat with spectators and to steal apples in an orchard, but still ended fourth. American Fred Lorz dropped out after nine miles, Rode in a car for 11, then rejoined the race and crossed the finish line first, quickly admitting his hoax. The award went to American Thomas Hicks, whose fans gave him strychnine and brandy – the first known use of performance enhancing drugs at the Olympics.

3. No boxing was held in Stockholm in 1912 Olympic Games because the sport was illegal in Sweden.

4. George Patton, who later became a famous American General, participated in the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, an event combining the pistol shooting, swimming, fencing, skiing and obstacles. Patton poorly in his best event – guns – but shined fencing, defeating the champion of the French army. Old Blood and Guts finished fifth overall, the only non-Swede to make the top seven.

5. Tug-O-War made his last appearance as an Olympic sport in 1920.

6. French athletes have circumvented the regulations of 1932 Olympics Los Angeles: Despite the ban, they were allowed wine with their meal.

7. The biggest star of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 was 10th child born to a sharecropper family in Alabama named Owens. But he was not born with the name Jesse. He was called James Cleveland Owens, and as a child moved from its namesake city – Cleveland. A teacher asked his name and he said: "JC" The teacher thought he said "Jesse" and the boy was too polite to disagree.

8. Another great Olympian with ties to Chicago was Johnny Weissmuller, winner of five gold medals in swimming who later starred as Tarzan in the movies. Amazing! Weissmuller swam brilliantly in the Olympics 1924 and '28 – and also in waters off Chicago's North Avenue Beach on a stormy day in July 1927. Weissmuller was training at the lake with its brother Peter, when a sudden storm flooded the yacht Favorite. The disaster killed 27 of the 71 people aboard – mostly women and children – but the brothers Weissmuller saved 11 people. Our hero.

9. And there is a study of the Athens Olympics in 2004, which shows that athletes who wore red to compete in "combat sports" as the fight scored higher than opponents wearing blue. Very interesting, but no evidence Scientific yet.

10. Olympic sites are chosen by secret ballot, if we do not know how London beat Paris for the 2012 Olympics. But some blame French President Jacques Chirac, who has insulted the British before the vote saying: "After Finland, it is the country with the worst food." Submission of France did not receive support from the British anyway, but Finland has two IOC members, and some believe that their swing votes in the 54-50 outcome.

11. And the last secret is whether golf will be involved in the Olympics in 2016. I asked many people this issue affects many. But I think the result will come out very soon.

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