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1. Jim Thorpe was a great athlete, won the pentathlon and decathlon events at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912. However, you won't find his name on the original list of 1912 Olympic Games champions, as they stripped him of his medals - why?
2. Johnny Weissmueller was a great swimmer. He won three gold medals at the Paris Olympic Games in 1924 and two more golds in Amsterdam four years later. Afterwards he became a movie star, famous for his part in which film?
3. Jesse Owens, one of the greatest runners in athletics history, won four gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1936 in Berlin. How many world records did he set at those Games?
4. During the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 Bob Beamon, a long jumper, set one of the most spectacular world records ever. His record remained unbroken for how many years?
5. The swimmer Mark Spitz was the first sportsman to win how many gold medals at one Olympics?
6. Bobby Fisher was one of the best players in chess history. However, after he'd won the world chess championship title, he withdrew from chess competitions altogether. He played his last match against whom?
7. Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals (100m, 200m and 4x100m relay) at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Her feats were all the more exceptional considering that, as a child, she suffered from _______________ .
8. Billie Jean King was a great tennis player. She won a record twenty Wimbledon titles but was also the first woman athlete to earn how many dollars in one year?
9. Greg Louganis was one of the greatest divers in history. In the mid-1990s he revealed that he was suffering from an incurable disease called ___________ ?
10. Florence Griffith Joyner was the fastest woman on Earth. She set records in the 100m and 200m sprints. How old was she when she set them in 1988?
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