At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won the Olympic title in the 800 m in a time of 1: 55. 54, a time which remained her personal best.

At the 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

At the 1928 Summer Olympics, Nurmi recaptured the 10, 000 m title but was beaten to the gold in the 5, 000 m and the 3, 000 m steeplechase.

At the age of 15, Nurmi rekindled his interest in athletics after being inspired by the performances of Hannes Kolehmainen, who was said to " have run Finland onto the map of the world " at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, Nurmi competed in three events.

At the 1928 Olympics, Kazimierz Wierzyński won the lyric gold medal with his poem Olympic Laurel that included a verse on Nurmi.

* 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

At the 1914 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include ice speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, seven of these events were for men while only three were for women.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three Olympic titles: the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay.

* November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.

At the 1932 Winter Olympics, speed skating events were conducted in the mass start form.

At the 1988 Winter Olympics, held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, short track was a demonstration sport.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she became the inaugural women's skeleton champion.

At the time of the Games food, petrol and building rationing was still in place in Britain ; because of this the 1948 Olympics came to be known as the " Austerity Games ".

At the July 1968 games, Shriver announced the formation of Special Olympics.

At the upper levels, tests for International competitions, including the Olympics, are issued under the auspices of the Federation Equestre Internationale.

At the 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics, Marathon was the starting point of the marathon races ( for both women and men in 2004 ).

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens the Colosseum was replaced by a depiction of the Panathinaiko Stadium

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, it hosted the rowing, swimming, and water polo events.

At the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Gabriel performed John Lennon's " Imagine " during the opening of the festivities on 10 February 2006.

At first he went to Barcelona, where Ramón Berenguer II ( 1076 – 1082 ) and Berenguer Ramón II ( 1076 – 1097 ) refused his offer of service.

After two years at FC Barcelona, Hagi signed for Galatasaray S. K .. At Galatasaray, he was both successful and highly popular among the Turkish supporters.

At the 1888 Universal Exposition in Barcelona, the piano manufacturer Erard sponsored a series of 20 concerts featuring Albéniz's music.

At age thirteen, he transferred to a school in Barcelona run by his father's card-playing friend Father Mossen Josep, where he remained for three years.

At the same time, the French troops were winning in Spain, and took Barcelona from the city's defending forces under the command of Antoni de Villarroel.

At the Chautauqua Portage ( near present-day Barcelona, New York ), the expedition moved inland to the Allegheny River, which it followed to the site of present-day Pittsburgh.

At this time, he helped Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, in his wars with the other Catalan counties to unite the old Marca Hispanica.

At its artificial whitewater course, Parc Olímpic del Segre, the town hosted the canoe slalom events for the 1992 Summer Olympics in neighboring Barcelona.

At her last Olympics in Barcelona Ashford, aged 35, was eliminated in the 100 m semi-finals by 1 / 100th of a second ; she went on to win her third straight Olympic 4 x 100 m relay gold, this time running 1st leg.

At a corts celebrated at Barcelona, Vilafranca del Penedès and Cervera in 1358 – 1359, Peter instituted the Generalitat.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Graf lost to Jennifer Capriati in the final and claimed the silver medal.

At the beginning of the 12th century, the prestige of the Counts of Barcelona began to rise to such a height that the Counts of Roussillon had no choice but to swear fealty to them.

At the end of the 2003 – 04 season Larsson left Celtic on a free transfer and signed a one year contract with FC Barcelona with an option for a second year.

At Barcelona during the last pre-season test, both Barrichello and Button surprised the paddock with very quick lap times, which were more than two seconds faster than anyone had been on day four.

At AEK Athens, Rivaldo played under his former Barcelona manager Llorenç Serra Ferrer.

At the time, there was a small amount of air traffic, with Lufthansa flying from Berlin to Barcelona via Halle, Leipzig, Geneva and Marseille.

At the outbreak of war with Spain in 1823, Carrel, whose sympathies were with the liberal cause, resigned, and succeeded in escaping to Barcelona.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona that year, Schiller's Ode to Joy, as set to Beethoven's music, was used instead, along with a neutral Olympic flag.

At first, the Barcelona Zoo was not aware just how unique of a specimen Snowflake was.

* Jonch, Antonio, " The White Gorilla ( Gorilla g. gorilla ) At Barcelona Zoo ", International Zoo Yearbook Vol.

At the following Disputation of Barcelona ( 1263 ) Nahmanides made the same point.

At the 1989 Barcelona World Cup event, former world champion Garry Kasparov surprised American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan with this move.

At the start of the clay-court season, González reached the semifinals at Barcelona and Rome.

At that time, Pegaso offerings included the Ekus ( a light truck, actually a rebadging of the Volkswagen LT and MAN-VW G ranges ), Mider ( medium ), Troner ( heavy ), Trakker ( off-road ), and Podium ( omnibusses and coaches ) ranges ; a futuristic concept truck designed by Francisco Podadera, the Pegaso Solo 500, had been exhibited at the Barcelona Motor Show in 1989.