the.com/olympiad
the sport where the trophy is a proof and the crowd is silent for four hours.
means a competitive exam testing deep problem-solving skill in a subject like math, physics, or coding, usually via brutally hard proof-based problems.
from named after the ancient olympic games' four-year cycle, first borrowed for chess tournaments in 1927, then math in bulgaria 1949, spreading the label to nearly every nerdy discipline since.
origin countryinternational math olympiad began in romania, 1959
scoring stylepartial credit for elegant but incomplete proofs
time pressureoften just two problems allowed per hour
medal mathroughly half of competitors win nothing