Yes, but that is very, very rare since an athlete spends so much time training for a specific event. I know of two athletes, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis of the United States, that won gold medals in the 100 meter dash and long jump. And there is Michael Phelps who won gold in the butterfly and freestyle events, although both are swimming events. If an athlete can qualify in more than one sport for the Olympics they may compete in all the sports they qualify for.
Yes! Ahaha, they could but most athletes don't do that because it is very hard to be really good at more that one thing. Athletes have really intensive, training, almost every day for 4 hours!! Even Michael Phelps trained on Christmas!!
Italy competed at the first Modern Olympic Games in 1896. They sent one athlete that compete in Shooting.
Diving events.
There will be 302 events that the athletes will compete in
Modern Olympic games consist of a total of 35 different sports. These sports are further divided into 400 events for which sportsmen compete.
"American Sheila Taormina is poised to become the first athlete in history to compete at the Olympic Games in three different events." source: http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/modern-pentathlon/story/2008/06/06/f-olympics-modernpentathlon-american.html Taormina competed in the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta as a member of the 4x200 meter freestyle relay team that won gold. At the 2000 Games and 2004 Games, she competed in women's triathlon. And at the 2008 Games, she qualified for modern pentathlon. She is the first athlete in the history of the Olympics to compete in three different disciplines.
The Olympic games are about bringing the best athletes from around the world to compete in events. Athletes compete for the chance to win the gold medal.
what kinds of events make up theOlympic games, and what athletics compete in them?
No, men and women compete in separate events.
Shooting and Marathon.
Chad has competed in athletics, boxing, and judo at the Olympic Games. For the 2012 Games in London, Chad currently has one athlete qualified to compete ... that being Carine Ngarlemdana in women's middleweight class (-70 kg) judo.
Yes, there are events for men and women in Olympic sailing.
302 Gold Medals were awarded, some of them were won by the same athlete for different events