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In the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924 a team composed by Juan Miles, Enrique Padilla, Juan Nelson, Arturo Kenny, G. Brooke Naylor and A. Peña obtained the gold medal ; this also occurred in Berlín 1936 with players Manuel Andrada, Andrés Gazzotti, Roberto Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Juan Nelson, Diego Cavanagh and Enrique Alberdi.
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To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.
The Winter Olympic Games have been hosted in the Swiss, French, Italian and Austrian Alps.
In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
* 2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
In 1900 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.
Every four years, the Athenians held a festival called the Panathenaea that rivaled the Olympic Games in popularity.
Spanish and international movies such as Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann, Manolete by Menno Meyjes have been shot there.
Category: Host cities of the Summer Olympic Games
Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations.
Bouts consist of three rounds of three minutes in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, and three rounds of three minutes in a national ABA ( Amateur Boxing Association ) bout, each with a one-minute interval between rounds.
Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games in 1992, which helped revitalize the city.
The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.
Full, joint BWCHs have never been held in Olympic Winter Games seasons.
* Carin Cone ( born 1940 ), an American swimmer, Olympic medalist, world record holder, and gold medal winner from the Pan American Games
Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.
Curling has been an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.
A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >
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For this deed, Poseidon summoned Ares to appear before the tribunal of the Olympic gods, which was held upon a hill in Athens.
BWCHs in non-IOC events, however, have been held in Olympic seasons.
The first women's Olympic competition was primitive, for it involved only synchronized calisthenics, was held at the 1928 Games, in Amsterdam.
All other firearms held in custody remained there however, until the repeal of the Garda policy following a high court case taken by an Irish shooter ( Frank Brophy ) to obtain a licence for an Olympic target shooting pistol succeeded and the licence was granted.
The IOC organizes the modern Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games, held in Summer and Winter, every four years.
The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.
On 6 September, a memorial service attended by 80, 000 spectators and 3, 000 athletes was held in the Olympic Stadium.
* 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called " ten-second barrier " in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9. 95 seconds.
During the 1984 Olympic Games, some track events were held at Occidental ’ s Patterson Field.
The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years in the Greek city of Olympia, in the Kingdom of Elis, from 776 BC through either 261 or 393 AD.
However, Dr Brookes did organise a national Olympic Games in London, at Crystal Palace, in 1866 and this was the first Olympics to resemble an Olympic Games to be held outside of Greece.
Dr Brookes had organised a national Olympic Games that was held at Crystal Palace in London in 1866.
In its report, the commission proposed that Olympic Games be held every four years and that the program for the Games be one of modern rather than ancient sports.
The original is held at the art museum Ateneum, but copies cast from the original mould exist in Turku, in Jyväskylä, in front of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium and at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Olympic Games are held every four years, where only select boat classes are raced ( 14 in total ):
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Cricket was also included as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games, where Great Britain defeated France to win the gold medal.
* 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
They also set the date and location for the first modern Olympic Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and the second, the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.
Perhaps the ultimate recognition of the respectability of savate came in 1924 when it was included as a demonstration sport in the Olympic Games in Paris.
Beck did actually draw versions with other formats, 22½ degrees rather than 45 ( the Paris Métro version uses 22½ degrees as a base ); and an unused version for the 1948 Olympic Games.
The history of Olympic volleyball traces back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event.
At the next Olympic Games, in Paris, France, in 1924, the ' two hands ' press and the ' two hands ' snatch were added to the programme, making a total of five lifts.
* May 14 – The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris ( as part of the Paris World Exhibition ).
* June 23 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
Spock studied literature and history at Yale, and also was active in athletics, becoming a part of the Olympic rowing crew ( Men's Eights ) that won a gold medal at the 1924 games in Paris.
On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest ( being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games ), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games.
Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de Coubertin's Paris, respectively.
* Ireland was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924 and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in an Olympic Games as an independent nation.
Flatwater canoing was a demonstration sport at the 1924 Paris Olympics and became an Olympic discipline at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 affected the Olympic Games not only due to new states being created, but also by sanctions against the nations that lost the war and were blamed for starting it.
The Committee shortlisted five of them — London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, and Paris — from which London eventually prevailed ; thus becoming the first city to host the Olympic Games for a third time.
At the Sorbonne conference of 1895, Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympic Games should take place in 1900 in Paris.
A decision was made to hold the first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens and that Paris would host the second celebration.
20 disciplines, comprising 19 sports, were part of the Olympic program in Paris.
The Olympic calibre events were again mixed with other sporting events, but whereas Paris hardly ever mentioned them, Sullivan called all his sports events " Olympic.
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