Olympic Power Trail
This Power Trail will take you from Tung Chung to Mui Wo via the Hong Kong Olympic Trail (also known as the Tung Mui Ancient Path). For this Power Trail I made the info based on starting from Tung Chung and have provided the way point to acces the start of the trail in the cache Olympic Power Trail #1 Athens 1896. Each cache along the Power Trail is in honour of the Summer Olympic Games and the cities that have hosted them. Please write in your logs your memory, if any, of the Olympic Games that the cache is named after. Spoiler photos are provided.
(thanks to team ajkj for their help in setting up the Power Trail)
Hong Kong Olympic Trail
To mark the historical occasion of Beijing hosting the Olympic Games 2008 and Hong Kong co-hosting the Olympic Equestrian Event, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government had obtained the approval of the International Olympic Committee to name a trail from Pak Mong Village to Mui Wo as "Hong Kong Olympic Trail" and a tree planting site at a slope near Pak Mong Village as "Olympic Green".
Montreal 1976 Highlights
- the hosts Canada, become the first and so far only country to host a Summer Olympic Games and not win a gold medal
- 29 countries, mostly African, boycott the games over New Zealand's rugby tour of South Africa
- Taro Aso was a member of the Japanese shooting team. 32 years later, he would be elected as the prime minister of Japan
- Women's events were introduced in basketball, handball and rowing
- At age 14, gymnast Nadia Comăneci (ROM)became the first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics
- Alberto Juantorena (CUB) became the first man to win both the 400 m and 800 m at the same Olympics
- Boris Onishchenko, a member of the Soviet Union's modern pentathlon team, was disqualified after it was discovered that he had rigged his épée to register a hit when there wasn't one
- Princess Anne of the United Kingdom was the only female competitor not to have to submit to a sex test
- Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto performed on a broken right knee, and helped the Japanese team win the gold medal for the team championship
- The New Zealand men's national field hockey team beat Australia to win gold, becoming the first non-Asian/European team to win the gold medal in hockey. The New Zealand goalkeeper played the final with a broken kneecap
- Caitlyn Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner) won the gold medal for decathlon
- Heavyweight boxer Clarence Hill won a bronze medal for Bermuda. His accomplishment makes Bermuda the smallest nation in terms of population to win an Olympic medal at the Summer Olympics
- Hong Kong sends a team of 25 athletes in 6 sports
- New Zealand win 2 gold medals, 1 silver and a bronze. John Walker wins NZ's third in the prestige athletic event, the 1500m