Little known Olympic facts that will take you by surprise
Come the Olympics, the fever of sports grips every die hard sports enthusiast. Since the time of the Greek Olympics, competitive sports have always held viewers enthralled as competing teams and nations pit their very best of their talents against each other. Various facts about the Olympics are in abundance, and more records are broken as well as new records are set with every new edition of the Olympics. Here is a quick look at some of the interesting and even, at times, strange facts about the Olympics. Contrary to the long held belief behind the Olympics torch relay dating back to the Greeks, the fact remains that the tradition of the torch relay traces back to the 1936 Olympics that were held in Berlin and was conceived as a scheme by which the superiority of the Aryan race would be established for the world to see. Thus, the torch relay race that has come to be synonymous with the Olympics actually originated as nothing more than one more tool of Nazi propaganda. Do you know that the popular Olympics logo of five intersecting rings in black, red, blue, yellow, and green was not randomly designed with a random choice of a color scheme.