Across Clues

1 With 28 medals, he’s the most decorated Olympian of

all time (7,6)

9 Boxer who lit Olympic cauldron at 1996 Atlanta

Games (8,3)

16 Estonian wrestling medalist August ___ (3)

17 y occurred

in 1984; 2 athletes thus received gold (3)

19 Tivadar Dienes-___, polo athlete in 1936, later died in

WWII action (3)

20 This Tibetan capital was a brief stop in the torch relay

in 2008 (5)

21 First Olympics host city (6)

22 Animal mascot of Montreal 1976 Games (6)

23 A dove of ___ is part of the Olympic Truce logo (5)

24 The Ancient Olympics honored Zeus, the ___ of the

sky (3)

26 ___ McNay will sail in his 4th Olympics this year (3)

27 ___ Swahn, a Swedish shooter, was oldest gold

medalist at 64 (5)

28 Pronoun for a lifeless object (2)

30 In Ancient Olympics, athletes wore no ___ (7)

33 American English; abbr. (2)

34 City that delayed Games due to pandemic (5)

35 Swimmer David Plummer suffered from sleep ___ (5)

37

___ (3)

38 Mark Spitz ___ to 7 golds in 1972 in Munich (4)

40 Symbol for iron (2)

41 Elizabeth Beisel brought Olympic glory to this tiny

state; abbr. (2)

42 Opposite of p.m. (2)

43 Cyclist Chris ___ won 7 medals for the U.K. (3)

45 In the U.S., 2016 was the 1st year you could ___ on

Olympic results in 15 years (3)

47 Jason Kenny did this to earn 7 Olympic medals, just

like fellow countryman Hoy (6)

50 Everything is satisfactory (2)

51 ___ Joyner won triple jump gold in 1984 (2)

53 Tree juice (3)

55 ___ Louis hosted the Games in 1904; the 1st

Olympics held outside Europe (2)

56 Short form of hello (2)

57 Abbr. for ‘Olympic Best,’ seen in heptathlon and

decathlon (2)

59 Land’s ___ was starting point for London torch relay

in 2012 (3)

61 At the 1964 Tokyo Games, 420 people in the athletes’

village received birthday ___ (4)

63 Wave-riding sport added to this year’s Olympics (7)

67 The 2012 triathlon occurred in London’s Hyde ___ (4)

68 First name of swimmer Litherland and sport shooter

Shi (3)

71 Larry ___ won basketball gold as part of America’s

Dream Team in 1992 (4)

73 Swimming events at the 1900 Paris Games occurred

in the River ___ (5) 74

Olympic gold medals (4)

76 25,000 loaves of ___ were consumed in the 2012

athletes’ village (5)

79 U.S. beat Canada on a ___ court in 1936, when

81 Canadian cyclist Derek ___ (3)

82 Sprinter Palmer or baseball legend Aaron (4)

83 This striped big cat was the Seoul 1988 mascot (5)

86 Twins Tom and Terry Brands both brought wrestling

medals home to this state; abbr. (2)

88 Number of years usually between each Summer

Olympics (4)

90 ___ Kong won its 1st medal in 1996 (4)

91 You wish; texting abbr. (2)

92 British athletes had matching uniforms & ___ in 2016 (7)

94 A prisoner’s statement of guilt or innocence (4)

95 Popular cheese choice at the Athens athletes’ village (4)

96 Only country to have won at least one gold at every

modern Summer Olympics (7) 97 Host city in 1932 and 1984 (2)

98 First place medal metal (4)

100 Ten different yogurts were on the ___ at Rio’s

athletes’ village (4)

102 Neural network; abbr. (2)

103 When training, Michael Phelps did this for 2 to 3 hrs

each afternoon (5)

105 One of the colors of the Olympic rings (4)

106 ___ de Janeiro hosted in 2016 (3)

108 The 10,000-meter event consists of 25 ___ around

an Olympic track (4)

110 Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won the 1960 marathon,

running without ___ (5)

113 Nationality (abbr.) of Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave, who won 5 gold rowing medals in 5 consecutive Games (4)

114 Japanese marathoner Naoko Takahashi would eat 50

pieces of ___ after a training run (5)

116 Fears of COVID led to a ‘___ Tokyo Olympics’ petition (4)

118 ___-Jo was the fastest woman of all time (3)

119 You could only compete in the 1st Modern Games if

you were this (3)

120 Post-war shortages meant athletes brought their own

___ to 1948 Games (4)

121 Sword-based sport that’s been part of every Games (7)

123 Kimia Alizadeh defected from ___, the country’s only

female medalist (4) 126

all part of this individual event; abbr. (2)

128 Brothers Sumner and John ___ both won medals at

the 1896 Athens Games in shooting events (5)

129 A pair of two people (3)

130 Building supply co. that sponsored American Olympic

team (3)

132 British diver ___ Daley was just 14 when competing

in Beijing 2008 (3)

134 __ Lin is the only male table tennis player to win

Olympic gold in singles, doubles and team (2)

135 t the 2008

Olympics for U.S. Virgin Islands (5)

138 Domain name; abbr. (2)

139 Pound; abbr. (2)

141

type of dog, in Munich 1972 (9)

143 __ Eagan is one of only two who have won gold at

both Summer & Winter Games (2)

144 Very strong winds (5)

148 Serial number; abbr. (2)

149 Eric ‘the ___’ Moussambani had never seen an

Olympic-sized pool before competing in 2000 (3)

151 Aladar Gerevich won gold in fencing; so did his wife,

son and father-__-___ (2-3)

153 )

157

159 Sports Illustrated says medalist Willye ___ was one of

the 100 greatest female athletes of last century (5)

161 Abbreviated formula for sulfur monoxide (2)

162 Football Association; abbr. (2)

163 A wild mountain goat (4)

165 Another name for gym class (2)

166 Gymnast___ Comaneci scored perfect 10s in 1976 (5)

167

Amsterdam (4)

169 Footballer Fortunato Franco was born in this part of

India (3)

171 Trischa ___ has won most Paralympic medals, 55 (4)

172 Vital equipment in archery event (5)

173 Swerve (4)

175 District attorney; abbr. (2)

177 A soccer score equal to zero (3)

178 At 39, Jenny Bindon, nee ___, was oldest athlete in

2012 Olympic women’s football (5)

180 Olympic motto is Faster, ___, ___ (7,7)

181 Famous track hero from 1936 Games; won 4 gold (5,5)