It’s not often you get to see an Olympic Champion perform up close. Unless you’ve had the pleasure of attending the Olympics somewhere in the world over the years. But it’s very exciting when they make an appearance right in our backyard here in Connecticut. You might remember Olympic figure skating bronze medalist Gracie Gold…
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are off to a big start for Connecticut. Even though the opening ceremony was today (Friday 2/4) the first night of figure skating was an exciting one for one Connecticut native. Zachary Donahue who is from Madison, CT put down an epic performance Thursday night during the rhythm dance…
Another Olympic themed Mundane Mysteries for you! There have been a few brand new events added to this year’s Summer Olympics like skateboarding, surfing, and a few others. But I was wondering if there were any events they’ve gotten rid of over the years. There are, and there’s definitely a few I feel they should…
I started wondering this after seeing Xander Schauffele win gold for the U.S. in golf last week. Did his caddie get a medal too? He did not. But that made me wonder do any coaches in the Olympics get medals or ANYTHING? So Olympic coaches do not get official medals from the International Olympic Committee…
While watching all the swimming, diving, and water polo in the summer Olympics this past week you’ve probably wondered at some point “how much water does it take to fill that thing?” An Olympic pool has about 2.5 million liters of water. This is enough to fill up 8,200 bathtubs. That’s A LOT of bubble…
If you watched even a few minute of the Summer Olympics coverage you’ve probably noticed that despite it being 2021 right now everything still says “Tokyo 2020”. Obviously the games were postponed last year due to the pandemic. But why didn’t they change the year? The International Olympic Committee decided to keep everything as “2020”…
Big win today for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team at the Summer Olympics today as they defeated The Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty kick shoot out to advance the to Semifinal round. Connecticut should be proud as Stratford’s very own Alyssa Naeher, the USWNT goalie, made two HUGE saves during the shoot-out to secure…
If you’ve been watching any of the diving events in the summer Olympics you’ve probably noticed one interesting thing that every diver does. They shower in between dives. But why?! I thought it might have been to wash the chlorine and chemicals off? But that’s not it at all. The pool water is very cold…
Let’s keep the Olympic theme going for today’s mystery… how deep are the pools in the Summer Olympics? The regular swimming pools for the swimming events in Tokyo are almost 10 feet deep. Pretty standard. The diving pools which obviously need to be deeper are between 10 and 16 feet depending on the event. The…
Keeping with our Olympics theme for Mundane Mysteries today’s question… what happens if there is a tie for gold? This obviously doesn’t happen that often since a lot of the timed events are decided by a tenth of a second, but it does happen. So they have to have a system for it. Which they do.…