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Liam Donnelly's Modern Olympic Timeline

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  • Olympic Games

    This was when the first modern olypic games was hosted. It was held in Athens. 14 different countries competed in this event.
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  • Olympic Games

    This Olympic games was held in Paris. Paris de-emphasized it so much that many athletes died before ever knowing they participated in the olympics.

  • Olympic Games

    This Olympic games was held in St.Louis.

  • Olympic games

    This olympic games was held in London. The games were originally awarded to Rome but were reasigned to London.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Stockholm. They were the first to use electronic timing in their events.

  • Canceled Olympic Games

    These games were scheduled to be held in Berlin but were canceled by the first world war.

  • Olympic games

    These Olympic games were hel in Antwerp.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games were held in Chamonix. They were the first to host Winter Olympic games.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Paris. It was the first to introduce the rasing of three flags in the closing ceremony (international Olympic Committee, the flag of the host nation and the flag of the next host nation)

  • Winter Olympic Games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in St.Moritz. It was the first to be held in a different nation than the Summer Games of the same year.

  • Olympic Games

    This Olympic games was held in Amsterdam.

  • Winter Olympic Games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Lake Placid. Since there was only around 4,000 people living there, major problems occured raising money and some land was donated by wealthy people.

  • Olympic Games

    This Olympic games was held in Los Angeles. Only half as many athletes competed because of the great depression.

  • Winter Olympic Games

    This Winter Olympics was held in the two market towns of Partenkirchen and Garmisch.

  • Olympic games

    This olympic games was held in Berlin, Germany. This Olympics is remembered forJesse Owens who won four gold medals and Hitler's

  • Olympic Games

    This Olympic games was held in London.

  • Winter Olympic Games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Oslo. It has been the first one in twelve years.

  • Olympic Games

    This Olympic Games was held in Helsinki.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic Games was held in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Melbourne but the Equestrian events were held in Stockholm because of the Australian quarantine laws not allowing foreign horses into the country.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in squaw valley. This was the only time that bobsledding was not included in the games.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Rome.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Innsbruck. There was a lack of snow in the luge & bobsled runs and the Austrian army cut 20,000 blocks of ice and saved the bobsled and luge events.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Tokyo.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Grenoble.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Mexico.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Sapparo.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Munich. It was the largest Olympic games with over 7,000 athlets competing.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Inssbruck.

  • Olympic games

    This was the first time women's events were icluded in the olympics, these events included basketball, rowing & team handball.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Lake Placid.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Moscow. Aleksandr Dityatin earned medals in every men's gymnastics event to become the only athlete ever to win eight medals in one Olympics.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Sarajevo.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Los Angeles.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Calgary.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Seoul. The sprinter Ben Johnson was disqualified for taking drugs.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Albertville.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Lillehammer. The schedule was changed so that the winter and summer olympic games took place at intervals.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Atlanta. A record setting 53 nations won gold medals.

  • Winter Olympic Games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Nagano. Womens ice hockey was introduced this year.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Sydney. 10,651 athletes took part in this games.

  • Winter Olympic games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Salt Lake City.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic games was held in Athens.

  • Winter Olympic Games

    This Winter Olympic games was held in Turin.

  • Olympic games

    This Olympic Games was held in Beijing.