Sorry for being late, I had difficulties with my computer.

OK, I'll post all responses in time for the opening ceremony.

(4) easy: (The 'easy' is a big lie, BTW) You're closing in. It is track and fields and it is running and it is an event different from today's events. A type of running still done today, but with a different distance.

(4) difficult: Yes, it is a country only known for winter sports, but it isn't among the many mentioned. Luxemburg comes very close (in one respect)

(7) difficult: female skater/cyclist, European

(8) difficult: You may be right, though I doubt that three generations of American 'bobbers' would win medals in that European dominated sport. The three that are in my mind have won their medals in a summer event.

(11) difficult: The way you have read my hint was as it was meant but you took the wrong direction. Pakistan too is too good in Hockey. Pakistan is even closer than India to that country, but historically, not geographically.

Wolfgang