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The first modern Olympic games. 14 countries are represented by about 245 men competing in 43 events.
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1319 men from 26 countries compete in 75 events and for the first time 11 women are allowed to compete in lawn tennis and golf.
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Only 13 countries show up. Fred Lorz rides in a car for 17.7 kilometres during the marathon.
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Mt Vesuvius eruption caused the games to move from Rome to London.
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Women compete in swimming events for the first time and none of them were from America.
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These games were cancelled due to World War 1.
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The Olympic flag was introduced. Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey are not invited for being on the wrong side of the great war.
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Germany was still banned from the Olympic games but the other four countries that were banned in 1920 were back.
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The Olympic flame was introduced. Germany came back.
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No soccer events.
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The first Olympic torch relay.
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Stopped from 1944 to 1948 due to World War 2.
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The first games to be shown on home television.
Germany and Japan aren't invited but 59 other countries attend. -
Russian athletes participate in running for the first time in forty years.
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Qurantine laws don't allow foreign horses in Australia so the equestrian events were held in Stockholm.
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A record 5,348 athletes compete from 83 different countries
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Japan spends about $3 billion to rebuild Tokyo after the World War 2 bombings and earthquakes.
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These games were held in the highest altitude at 7,349 feet. The thin air was bad for athletes to breathe so that meant short relay races and running events and jumping.
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The Olympic Oath Is taken by a referee for the first time.
Mark Spitz sets seven world records and won seven gold in swimming events. -
14 year old Nadia Comaneci scores seven perfect tens
on her way to three golds, a silver and bronze medal.Her event was gymnastics. No one else has ever achieved one perfect ten but she won seven. -
The first games to be held in a communist country.
80 nations participate down from 122 at Munich. -
A record of 144 countries show up but without the Soviets and East Germans the Americans win nearly
3 times as much medals as their closest competitors. -
North Korea, Cuba and Ethiopia refused to paticipate.
159 nations compete though, with 2,186 women. -
The first time in decades, every nation shows up, even North Korea, Cuba and South Africa.
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179 countries show up, and 79 win medals.
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10,651 athletes show up from every country, the only one excluded is Afghanistan.
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The games return to Greece.
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For the first time the games are held in China. 8 is the lucky number for China. The opening ceremony was one of the most memorable, with the drummers, the scroll, the blocks, the torch relay, the lighting of the flame, fireworks and much more!
