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x px31 events | 5 comments | 6. April 1896 - 12. August 2012
Since the Games were not well publicized internationally, contestants were not nationally chosen but rather came individually and at their own expense. Some contestants were tourists who happened to be in the area during the Games...
6. April 1896
At the same time of the Olympic Games, Paris was also hosting the World Exhibition, an international fair of immense size. Because of the fair, the Olympics were poorly organized and poorly publicized...
14. May 1900
Originally scheduled for Chicago, the Games were moved to St. Louis and held in conjunction with the centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. The program included more sports than in Paris, but with only 13 nations sending athletes, the...
1. July 1904
The 1908 Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be hosted by Rome, but the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius caused the Games to be relocated to London. Britain's recent refusal to give Ireland its independence caused Irish athletes to boycott the...
27. April 1908
The 1912 Olympics at Stockholm were known as the "Swedish Masterpiece" because they were so well organized. Avery Brundage, IOC president from 1952 to 1972, described these Games: "The efficiency and almost mathematical precision with which the events...
5. May 1912
The 1916 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VI Olympiad, were scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, but were eventually cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. Work on the stadium, the Deutsches Stadion ("German...
8. June 1916
The 1920 Olympic Games followed closely the ending of World War I. The world had seen much bloodshed. Should the aggressors of the war be invited to the Olympic Games? The Olympic ideals stated that all countries should be allowed entrance into the Games.
20. April 1920
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. (There will be a separate story about Winter Olympics) Beginning with the 1924 Games, the Winter...
25. January 1924
The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1924 in Paris, France. The home city of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern games, was selected over...
27. July 1924
The Olympic flame made its debut at these Olympic Games. Also making its debut were track-and-field events and gymnastics for women. There had been much resistance to these additions by Coubertin and others who feared that having women compete in...
28. July 1928
For a while it seemed as if no one was going to attend the 1932 Olympic Games. Six months before the Games were to begin, not a single country had responded to the official invitations. Then they started to trickle in...
30. July 1932
The IOC had awarded the Games to Berlin in 1931 with no idea that Adolf Hitler was to take power in Germany two years later. By 1936, the Nazis had control over Germany and had already begun to implement their racist policies...
1. August 1936
The 1940 Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan, but several countries planned to boycott the Games there because Japan was waging an aggressive war in Asia and then Japan itself decided the Games would be a distraction to...
21. September 1940
The 1944 Summer Olympics, which were to be officially known as the Games of the XIII Olympiad, were cancelled due to World War II. They were to have been held in London, England, United Kingdom, which won the bid in a June 1939 IOC election over...
1. July 1944
Germany and Japan, the aggressors of World War II, were not invited to participate. Though World War II was over, Europe was still ravaged from the war. When it was announced that the Olympic Games would be resumed, many debated whether it was wise...
29. July 1948
The 1952 Olympic Games were largely a reflection of the Cold War. The Soviet Union, after having been out of the Games since 1912, decided to rejoin the competition. The Soviets, instead of joining the other athletes in the Olympic Village, set up...
19. July 1952
The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...
22. November 1956
The 1960 Olympic Games were the first Olympics to be fully covered by television. It had been Coubertin's wish since 1904 to have the Olympics hosted in Rome: "I desired Rome only because I wanted Olympism, after its return from the excursion to...
25. August 1960
The 1964 Olympic Games debuted the first use of computers to keep results. About 5,000 athletes participated, representing 93 countries. The 1964 Olympic Games were marred by the absence of Indonesia, North Korea, and South Africa...
10. October 1964
These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America, the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country, and the first to be staged in a developing country. They were also the third Games to be held in autumn, after the 1956 Games in...
12. October 1968
The 1972 Olympic Games will probably be best remembered for the murder of eleven Israeli Olympians (look from video). On September 5, a day before the Games were to begin, eight Palestinian terrorists entered the Olympic Village and seized eleven...
26. August 1972
The 1976 Olympic Games were marred by boycotts and drug allegations. Before the Olympic Games, New Zealand's rugby team toured South Africa (still mired in apartheid) and played against them...
17. July 1976
The 1980 Olympic Games were most notable for the largest boycott of an Olympics in history. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the United States and 61 other countries decided to boycott the Olympics (France, Great Britain,...
19. July 1980
The Soviets, in retaliation for the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games, boycotted the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Along with the Soviet Union, East Germany, and Cuba, fourteen other countries boycotted the Games...
28. July 1984
The amateur rule, which had plagued athletes and officials alike since the beginning of the Olympic Games, was finally overturned in 1986. It was now up to individual sports groups to determine whether or not "professionals" should be allowed to...
17. September 1988
The first Olympic Games in three decades without a boycott was hosted by the Spanish city of Barcelona. Athletes from most of the new countries of the former Soviet Union competed as the "Unified Team" and for the first time since 1964, Germany...
25. July 1992
The 1996 Games were the first Games convened without any governmental support, which led to a commercialization of the Games that disappointed some critics.A pipe bomb exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park which killed two people but the motive...
19. July 1996
It was the second time that the Summer Olympics were held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first one being in Melbourne in 1956. The 2000 Summer Games in Sydney began with an impressive opening ceremony that highlighted Australian history from the...
15. September 2000
10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries. There were 301 medal events in 28 different sports. Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries...
13. August 2004
A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a...
8. August 2008
The first event, the group stages in women's football, began two days earlier, on 25 July. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees participated. Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and then-Mayor...
27. July - 12. August, 2012
