80 years
Jackie has competed in 4 olympic games, but has been in training for many years.
At the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games the age requirement was only 14 years old. Many young 14 year old athletes competed in the games.
About 500 years B. C. was founded the olympic tradition in Olympia, Greece. At that time men competed in running. (For women was the participation at Olympic Games prohibited.)
Ian Johnston who was 13 years, 75 days old when he competed in men's coxed pairs rowing at the 1960 Games in Rome.
Chamonix, France in 1924The first Winter Olympic games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
Summer games= 4 years Winter games= 2 years
Ever since the olympic games were every 4 years, so were the olympic winter games, and they probably started out in different years so they will always be that way.
Dawn Fraser was 19 years old when she competed in her first Olympics, the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne (born September 4, 1937 and swam first Olympic race on November 29, 1956).
The oldest Olympic competitor representing Ireland was Joe McMenamin who was 59 years, 319 days old when he competed in three person keelboat sailing at the 1972 Games in Munich ... he finished 16th.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Arthur von Pongracz of Austria who was 72 years, 48 days old when he competed in men's individual dressage at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin.
how many years between the olympic games
28. The first modern Olympics was in Athens in 1896 and the first Winter Olympics was in Chamonix (France) in 1924.