Olympics gaming cards
Olympics gaming cards rules
A game for up to 6 players.
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Cut out and laminate the gaming cards.
Share the cards between the players. Cards should be held face down.
The youngest player starts.
A player chooses a category:
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Date of games.
Numbers of medals: gold, silver or bronze.
Total medal points.
Age of athlete.
 All players state the result on their card for the chosen category.
 The winner of round is determined as follows:
- Date of games – oldest wins.
- Numbers of medals: gold, silver or bronze – highest number of chosen medal
wins.
- Total medal points – highest total points wins (3 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for
bronze).
- Age of athlete – youngest wins.
 The winner of each round collects all the cards played in that round and places
them at the bottom of their pack of cards. They then select the next category
from their next card.
The overall winner is the player who has the most cards at the end of play. End of
play can be set as a fixed time or when one player is left holding all the cards.
Extension:
Create your own set of cards: fill in the blank cards with data researched from an
Olympic Games of your choice!
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Olympics gaming cards
Winter Olympics
Innsbruck 1976
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Rosi Millermaier
Germany
26
Skiing
2 Gold
1 Silver
Total medal points:
8
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Innsbruck 1976
John Curry
Great Britain
26
Ice skating
1 Gold
Total medal points:
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Winter Olympics
Innsbruck 1976
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Raisa Smetanina
Austria
24
Skiing
2 Gold
1 Silver
Total medal points:
8
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Innsbruck 1976
Ingemar Stenmark
Sweden
20
Skiing
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
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Winter Olympics
Innsbruck 1976
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Dorothy Hamill
USA
20
Ice skating
1 Gold
Total medal points:
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
3
Innsbruck 1976
Franz Klammer
Austria
23
Skiing
1 Gold
Total medal points:
3
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Olympics gaming cards
Winter Olympics
Vancouver 2010
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Magdalens Neuner
Germany
23
Skiing
2 Gold
1 Silver
Total medal points:
8
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Vancouver 2010
Dale Begg-Smith
Australia
23
Skiing
1 Silver
Total medal points:
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Winter Olympics
Vancouver 2010
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Martina Sablikova
Czech Republic
22
Speed skating
2 Gold
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
7
Winter Olympics
Vancouver 2010
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Sven Kramer
Netherlands
24
Speed skating
1 Gold
1 Silver
Total medal points:
5
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Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Vancouver 2010
Meng Wang
China
25
Speed skating
3 Gold
Total medal points:
Winter Olympics
9
Vancouver 2010
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Petter Northug
Norway
24
Skiing
1 Gold
1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Total medal points:
6
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Olympics gaming cards
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Chamonix 1924
Gillis Grafstöm
Sweden
31
Skiing
1 Gold
Total medal points:
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
3
Chamonix 1924
Beatrix Loughan
USA
24
Skating
1 Silver
Total medal points:
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Winter Olympics
Chamonix 1924
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Julius Skutnabb
Finland
33
Speed skating
1 Gold
1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Total medal points:
6
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Chamonix 1924
Ethel Muckelt
Great Britain
39
Skating
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
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Winter Olympics
Chamonix 1924
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Clas Thunberg
Finland
31
Speed skating
3 Gold
1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Total medal points:
12
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Chamonix 1924
Herma Szabo-Plank
Austria
21
Skating
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
1
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Olympics gaming cards
Winter Olympics
Sochi 2014
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Alexander Legkov
Russia
30
Skiing
1 Gold
1 Silver
Total medal points:
5
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Sochi 2014
Yuzuru Hanyu
Japan
19
Figure skating
1 Gold
Total medal points:
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Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Sochi 2014
Jenny Jones
Great Britain
33
Snowboarding
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
1
Winter Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Natalie Geisenberger
Germany
26
Luge
2 Gold
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Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Sochi 2014
Jan Smeekens
Netherlands
27
Speed skating
1 Silver
Total medal points:
Sochi 2014
Total medal points:
Winter Olympics
Winter Olympics
2
Sochi 2014
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Peter Prevc
Slovenia
21
Ski jumping
1 Silver
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
3
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Olympics gaming cards
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
London 1948
Robert Mathias
USA
18
Decathlon
1 Gold
Total medal points:
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
3
Fancina Blankers-Koen
Netherlands
30
Track running
4 Gold
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Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
London 1948
Lloyd Labeach
Panama
24
Track running
2 Bronze
Total medal points:
London 1948
Total medal points:
Summer Olympics
12
2
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
London 1948
Ilona Elek
Hungary
41
Fencing
1 Gold
Total medal points:
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Summer Olympics
London 1948
Name:
Micheline Ostermeyer
Representing: France
Age:
26
Sport:
Field throwing/jumping
Medals:
2 Gold
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
7
Summer Olympics
London 1948
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Veikko Huhtanen
Finland
29
Gymnastics
3 Gold
1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Total medal points:
12
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Olympics gaming cards
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Beijing 2008
Usain Bolt
Jamaica
22
Track running
3 Gold
Total medal points:
9
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Michael Phelps
USA
23
Swimming
8 Gold
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Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Beijing 2008
Gred Kanter
Estonia
20
Field throwing
1 Gold
Total medal points:
Beijing 2008
Total medal points:
Summer Olympics
3
Summer Olympics
Name: Veronica Campbell Brown
Representing: Jamaica
Age:
26
Sport:
Track running
Medals:
1 Gold
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Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Beijing 2008
Elena Isinbaeva
Russia
26
Field jumping
1 Gold
Total medal points:
Beijing 2008
Total medal points:
Summer Olympics
Summer Olympics
3
Beijing 2008
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwe
24
Swimming
1 Gold
3 Silver
Total medal points:
9
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Olympics gaming cards
Summer Olympics
London 2012
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Zou Kai
China
24
Gymnastics
2 Gold
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
7
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
London 2012
Mo Farah
Great Britain
29
Athletics
2 Gold
Total medal points:
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Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
London 2012
Usain Bolt
Jamaica
25
Athletics
3 Gold
Total medal points:
9
Summer Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
London 2012
Ki Bo-Bae
South Korea
24
Archery
2 Gold
Total medal points:
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Summer Olympics
London 2012
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Missy Franklin
USA
17
Swimming
4 Gold
1 Bronze
Total medal points:
13
Summer Olympics
London 2012
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Alicia Coutts
Australia
24
Swimming
1 Gold
3 Silver, 1 Bronze
Total medal points:
10
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Olympics gaming cards
First Modern Olympics
Athens 1896
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Alfred Hayos
Hungary
18
Swimming
2 Gold
Total medal points:
6
First Modern Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Athens 1896
Carl Schumann
Germany
23
Gymnastics
4 Gold
Total medal points:
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First Modern Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Athens 1896
John Boland
Great Britain
25
Tennis
2 Gold
Total medal points:
6
First Modern Olympics
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Spyndon Louis
Greece
23
Marathon
1 Gold
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Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
Athens 1896
Paul Masson
France
18
Cycling
3 Gold
Total medal points:
Athens 1896
Total medal points:
First Modern Olympics
First Modern Olympics
9
Athens 1896
Name:
Representing:
Age:
Sport:
Medals:
James Connolly
USA
31
Field jumping
1 Gold
1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Total medal points:
6
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Olympics gaming cards
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Sport:
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