第1992期：巴黎奥运 – 7 fun facts

Did you know?

1. The official mascot of the Paris Olympics is… a hat.

弗里热帽（又译“弗里吉”），象征 freedom.

The Olympic Phryge is a traditional hat that French revolutionaries once wore. It’s pronounced “freeze.”

2. Olympic medals will contain iron once part of the Eiffel Tower

奖牌中均含一部分历年保养修缮中替换的埃菲尔铁塔原件，专门请了法国顶级奢侈品品牌商Chaumet（尚美）制作的，每枚奖牌中含18克铁塔原铁。

3. The Olympic Games Paris 2024 will take place exactly 100 years since Paris hosted the Olympics back in 1924.

巴黎将和伦敦成为世界上唯一两个主办过三届奥运会的城市：巴黎（1900, 1924，2024）；伦敦（1908, 1948，2012。

4. This Olympics will be “breaking in” a new sport – Breakdancing!

霹雳舞首次成为奥运比赛项目，B-boys，B-girls有福了。

5. The River Seine will host the marathon swimming event and the swimming leg of the triathlon at the Olympics.

马拉松游泳（10公里）和铁人三项赛的游泳部分将在塞纳河上进行。

6. Paris 2024 will be the first Olympics in history to achieve numerical gender parity on the field of play – of the 10,500 athletes participating in the Games, 5,250 will be men and 5,250 women.

“美国重自由，欧洲重平等”的完美体现。

7. There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms. Instead, buildings in the athletes’ village have been designed with a cooling system drawing water from underground, and facades adjusted so they get little direct sun. (https://www.aljazeera.com)

Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony starts at 19:30 CEST (17:30 UTC)

*CEST – central European summertime

UTC – coordinated universal time (CEST-2)

Beijing/Singapore Time – UTC +8 （27日凌晨1:30）