2002 in Salt Lake City, ut...usa
Apolo Anton Ohno feels very proud of himself going into this year's Olympics.
Apolo Ohno is not a millionaire but he is very rich and famous. He makes about 7.5 thousand dollars a year! Close to a millionaire but not quite there. Apolo Ohno also won dancing with the stars.
500,000 per skate
2002, 2006 and 2010
Apolo Ohno completed Junior High School in Federal Way, Washington. Graduating from Decatur High School in the year 2000 He has an ongoing educational backround in Business from the University of Colorado.
His lifelong conflict and friendship with his father, who pushed Apolo to greatness from a very early age. The most notable incident is Apolo's first Olympic trial, where despite being a heavy favorite, the 15-year-old finished dead last. Afterwards, his father, who saw that Apolo simply gave up, brought him to a remote cabin on a Washington beach and left him there alone to figure out where he wanted to go in life. After 8 days, Apolo called his father and told him, "I want to skate." So he skated, devoting his entire life to the sport, and now he is a world champion-- thanks in large part to his father, Yuki.
In first hit the headlines that tennis was in the Olympics was in the year of 1896.
1900 was the first year soccer was played in Olympics.
Finland was first invited to join the Olympics year 1896, but it didn't join. First time Finland competed at the Olympics in the year 1906.
The 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris were the first Olympics at which a Canadian athlete participated.
1896, for the modern olympics.
1896 was the first time the United States participated in the Olympics, which was a Summer Olympics. The first Winter Olympics the U.S. participated in was in 1924.