Tip Talk奧運(yùn)系列：Bizarre facts

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本期Tip Talk節(jié)目中，Nelly和Greg會(huì)跟大家分享一些奧運(yùn)會(huì)歷史上曾經(jīng)真實(shí)發(fā)生過(guò)的奇葩或者有趣的事情。

Bizarre fact 1: The 400m final at the 1908 London games was ordered to be re-run because American John Carpenter blocked Wyndham Halswelle - a move legal in the States but outlawed in Britain. Carpenter was disqualified and the other two finalists, both Americans, refused to re-race, so Halswelle jogged alone round the track and took gold.
在1908年倫敦奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，400m決賽因?yàn)槊绹?guó)選手約翰?卡彭特?fù)踉跍氐履?霍斯韋爾前面而下令重跑。這中阻擋動(dòng)作在美國(guó)是允許的，但在英國(guó)卻是被禁止的。卡彭特和另外兩名進(jìn)入決賽的美國(guó)選手被取消參賽資格。結(jié)果，霍斯韋爾獨(dú)自在跑道上慢跑并了獲得金牌。

Bizarre fact 2: Though modern Olympians shoot at clay pigeons, contestants in the 1900 Games took aim at real birds. More than 300 were killed, 21 of them by winner Leon de Lunden of Belgium.
早期現(xiàn)代奧運(yùn)射擊比賽的靶子是泥鴿，不過(guò)，在1900年奧運(yùn)會(huì)上參賽者瞄準(zhǔn)射擊的是真鴿子。當(dāng)年奧運(yùn)期間有300多只鴿子被射殺，其中被冠軍比利時(shí)選手列昂?蘭登射殺的有21只。

Bizarre fact 3: The 1500m victory of Luxembourg's Josy Barthel at the 1952 Games was so unexpected officials had not brought along the score to the tiny state's national anthem. With Barthel waiting on the podium, the band were forced to improvise and did well enough - or, indeed, badly enough - for the runner to bury his head in his hands and begin to weep.
1952年的奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，盧森堡選手若西?巴特爾在1500m比賽中意外獲勝，現(xiàn)場(chǎng)工作人員連人家國(guó)家的國(guó)歌都沒(méi)有準(zhǔn)備。巴特爾站在領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)臺(tái)上等待著，樂(lè)隊(duì)被迫現(xiàn)場(chǎng)演奏，也不知是樂(lè)隊(duì)演奏太好還是太差，這位運(yùn)動(dòng)員當(dāng)時(shí)就雙手抱頭哭起來(lái)了。

Bizarre fact 4: American Fred Lorz's marathon victory in the 1904 St Louis games was overturned when it was revealed he had hitched a lift in a car for most of the distance before racing to the finish from four miles out.
在1904年圣路易斯奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，美國(guó)選手弗萊德?羅茨在馬拉松比賽中的金牌被取消，因?yàn)楹髞?lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)他在距離終點(diǎn)4英里之前的大部分賽程中搭了輛便車。

Bizarre fact 5: Modern games founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin introduced an arts competition at the 1912 Stockholm Games. The gold medal winner for literature was... Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
在1912年斯德哥爾摩奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，現(xiàn)代奧運(yùn)會(huì)創(chuàng)始人彼埃爾?德?顧拜男爵旦引入了藝術(shù)類競(jìng)技。然后該比賽中文學(xué)類金牌獲得者是……彼埃爾-德顧拜旦男爵。

Bizarre fact 6: In 1900, in France, winners got paintings instead of gold medals. Gold, silver and bronze medals weren't given out until the third modern Olympics, in 1904. The French gave the winners paintings because they believed they were more valuable.
1900年法國(guó)舉辦的奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，獲勝的運(yùn)動(dòng)員得到的獎(jiǎng)品是畫作，而不是金牌。1904年第三屆現(xiàn)代奧運(yùn)會(huì)上才開始頒發(fā)金銀銅牌。據(jù)說(shuō)，法國(guó)當(dāng)時(shí)用畫當(dāng)獎(jiǎng)品是因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為畫比獎(jiǎng)牌更值錢。

Bizarre fact 7: The Olympics once lasted 187 days. In 1908, the London Olympics went on for 187 days... they started in April and didn't end until October.
史上歷時(shí)最久的奧運(yùn)會(huì)持續(xù)了187天。1908年的倫敦奧運(yùn)會(huì)4月開幕，到10月才閉幕，一直開了187天。

Bizarre fact 8: Olympic organizers have provided free condoms to athletes in the Olympic Village ever since the 1992 Games in Barcelona. Randy athletes used all 70,000 at the 2000 Games, leading to organizers supplying nearly twice that amount four years later. After a drop-off to just 100,000 free condoms at Beijing 2008, 150,000 were handed out at London 2012 and 450,000will be handed out in Rio this year.
自1992年巴塞羅那奧運(yùn)會(huì)開始，奧運(yùn)會(huì)組織者會(huì)為奧運(yùn)村的運(yùn)動(dòng)員提供免費(fèi)避孕套。運(yùn)動(dòng)員在2000場(chǎng)比賽中用掉全部7萬(wàn)個(gè)避孕套，導(dǎo)致組織者在四年后的奧運(yùn)會(huì)上提供近兩倍的避孕套（14萬(wàn)個(gè)）。2008年北京奧運(yùn)會(huì)提供的免費(fèi)避孕套數(shù)量下降到10萬(wàn)個(gè)之后，2012年倫敦奧運(yùn)會(huì)上發(fā)放了15萬(wàn)個(gè)。今年里約奧運(yùn)期間，組織方將發(fā)放45萬(wàn)個(gè)免費(fèi)避孕套。

Bizarre fact 9: American Margaret Abbott won women's golf gold at the Paris 1900 games in bizarre circumstances. On holiday in the French capital with her mother to visit the World's Fair which was running concurrently, she took part in what she thought was merely a golf tournament to celebrate the Fair and left for the USA not knowing she had become the first-ever American gold medalist.
在1900年巴黎奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，美國(guó)姑娘瑪格麗特?阿博特獲得女子高爾夫比賽金牌的經(jīng)歷很奇特。她當(dāng)時(shí)正與母親在巴黎度假，參觀正在進(jìn)行的世界博覽會(huì)，順便參加了一場(chǎng)高爾夫比賽，她以為就是為了慶祝世博會(huì)舉辦的小比賽。然后她就回了美國(guó)，全然不知自己已成為美國(guó)首位奧運(yùn)金牌得主。

Bizarre fact 10: Swimming at Athens 1896 involved the competitors being taken out in boats and then asked to paddle the required distance back to shore.
1896年雅典奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，游泳比賽時(shí)參賽者乘船到達(dá)離海岸指定距離的海面上，然后游回到岸邊。

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