True or False in Sport
In the following sporting statements, which are true and which are false.
Quiz
- A golf ball is the fastest recorded object in sports.
- In the 2022/23 season Arsenal Women boasted a higher average attendance than the Premier League's Bournemouth.
- Paul Gascoigne has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
- Swimmer Michael Phelps has won more Summer Olympics gold medals than Belgium.
- Sue Barker has won a tennis Grand Slam tournament.
- Cheetahs were raced at Romford Greyhound Stadium in 1937 in an effort to increase attendances.
- The Indy 500 automobile race is actually raced over 300 miles.
- Steve Cram has never won an Olympic gold medal.
- North Korea beat Italy in the finals of the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
- Basketball player Michael jordan was 6 feet 1 inches tall.
- Rugby coach Eddie Jones played in the position of scrum-half during his playing career.
- Mike Tyssen bit Evander Holyfield on both ears.
- Gary Lineker never got a yellow card in his entire senior career.
- During a recognised tournament, Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled a maximum 147 break at the age of 15.
- Golf's Walker Cup is named after the great-grandfather of President George W. Bush.
- Leicester won the Premier League in the 2016-17 season.
- Peter Shilton played in the same senior England international football team as Bobby Moore.
- Fatima Whitbread won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- Juventus have played in black and white stripes ever since Notts County supplied them with their first set of black-and-white striped shirts.
- It's tradition for golf caddies to wear white jumpsuits at the US Masters.
- In cricket, a score of '111' is referred to as a Nelson.
Answers - TRUE or FALSE
- FALSE - the fastest is the shuttlecock. According to Guinness World Records: fastest shuttlecock... 493 km/h, fastest golf ball... 339.6 km/h
- TRUE - Arsenal women boasted an average attendance of 17,501
- TRUE - in 1990
- FALSE - Micheal Phelps has 23 gold medals, and as of 2022, Belgium has 44 gold medals
- TRUE - the 1976 French Open
- TRUE - the idea failed, with just two races held
- FALSE - it's raced over 500 miles, hence the name
- FALSE - Cram won a silver medal in the 1,500 metres at the 1984 Olympic Games
- TRUE - North Korea beat Italy 1-0 in group D, which knocked Italy out of the 1966 World Cup
- FALSE - Jordan was 6 feet 5 inches tall
- FALSE - Jones played as a hooker for Sydney club Randwick and New South Wales
- TRUE - the referee in charge, Mills Lane, disqualified Tyson for biting Holyfield in both ears
- TRUE - never ever, over 567 competitive games
- TRUE - at the final of the 1991 English Amateur Championship
- TRUE - George Herbert Walker who was president of the USGA in 1920
- FALSE - it was a year ealier, in the 2015–16 season
- TRUE - Shilton made his debut in November 1970 and appeared 12 times alongside Bobby Moore
- FALSE - Tessa Sanderson won gold, with Whitbread gaining a bronze medal
- TRUE - in 1903, one of their players was an English footballer who was asked if he had connections to supply new shirts in a colour that wouldn't fade so quickly
- TRUE - caddies were people from the local community and members insisted on the white suits to make them look smarter
- TRUE - it's a piece of cricket slang terminology and superstition