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 >

The West German Olympic Organizing Committee had encouraged an open and friendly atmosphere in the Olympic Village, to help erase memories of the militaristic image of wartime Germany and, specifically, of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which had been exploited by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for propaganda purposes.

The proposals of the other commission, on amateurism, were more contentious, but this commission also set important precedents for the Olympic Games, specifically the use of heats to narrow participants and the banning of prize money in most contests.

At the time, the drug was not specifically listed in the IOC's list of banned substances, but the Olympic rules generally prohibit doping of any kind, in accordance with its charter.

In spite of the event's strong pedigree in the modern Olympics, and its status as the only event created specifically for the modern Olympic Games, its lack of widespread popularity outside Eastern Europe has led to calls for its removal from the Olympic Games in recent years ; however, a vote by the IOC on July 8, 2005, keeps it in the Olympic program at least until 2012.

Pétanque is not currently an Olympic sport, although the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules-which was created in 1985 by three international boules organizations specifically for this purpose-has been lobbying the Olympic committee since 1985 to make it part of the summer Olympics.

More specifically it was seen as punishment for the contempt they had shown for the great Olympic Games, which they are said to have attempted to supplant by attracting the principal artists and athletes to their own public games.

It was designed in 1967 by Rodney March of Brightlingsea, England, with help from Terry Pierce, and Reg White, specifically for the purpose of becoming the Olympic catamaran.

The MPSF was founded in 1992 and specifically created to provide an outlet for competition in non-revenue-producing Olympic sports.

USADA focuses on deterring the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport through education efforts that are targeted both at elite-level Olympic and Paralympic athletes as well as the general public, including specifically youth level athletes.

It was organized by Sweden ’ s Central Association for the Promotion of Sports, and more specifically by Viktor Balck, a member of that association and one of the five original members of the International Olympic Committee.

Numerous college athletes have made Olympic boats, but they were not specifically representing their University either at the camp, or at the Olympic trials for some of the smaller boats.

* Montreal's Olympic Club organises a team specifically to play a match against an indigenous team

The Soldier Hollow venue was one of only three which was built and designed by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee ( SLOC ) specifically for the 2002 Winter Olympics ; with the others being the Utah Olympic Park and Utah Olympic Oval.

A highly regarded figure in collegiate athletics in general and specifically basketball, Dr Renken was the President of the United States Olympic Basketball Team Selection Committee for the 1976 Olympic games.

The Sports Palace — located from the Olympic Village and 6. 5 from downtown Mexico City in the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City near the conflux of two expressways ( Miguel Alemán Viaduct and Río Churubusco Interior Loop )— was constructed specifically for the Olympic basketball competition.

In 1869, the Greek Parliament allocated of public land between the Palace Gardens and the ancient Temple of Olympian Zeus, and also passed a law on 30 November 1869, " for the building works of the Olympic Games ", as the Zappeion was the first building to be erected specifically for the revival of the Olympic Games in the modern world.

Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

Although professional cheerleading leagues exist in multiple countries, there are no Olympic Teams.

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.

While there were a number of other ancient games celebrated in Greece during this time period, including the Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games, Coubertin idealised the Olympic Games as the ultimate ancient athletic competition.

Following the Congress, the institutions created there began to be formalised into the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), with Demetrius Vikelas as its first President.

Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the end of the Eighties and at beginning of the Nineties, there are the so called Paperolimpiadi ( a long story about the 1988 Seoul Olympic games ) and some strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child.

The International Shooting Sport Federation still administers Olympic and non-Olympic rifle, pistol, shotgun and running target shooting competitions, although there is also a large number of national and international shooting sports controlled by unrelated organizations.

While there are relatively few competitive Olympic weightlifters ( or more simply lifters ), the lifts and their components are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength.

During the 1900 Olympic Games, there was no weightlifting event.

Yugoslavia becomes the second communist country to host the Olympic Games, but unlike the Soviet Union in 1980, there were no boycotts of the Games by western countries.

The beach of Schinias is located southeast of the town and it is a popular windsurfing spot and the Olympic Rowing Center for the 2004 Summer Olympics is also located there.

Although at that time there were 42 recognized lifts, the “ Strength Set ” ( Curl, Bench Press, and Squat ) soon became the standard competition lifts, and both organizations held Championships on these lifts ( as well as on the Olympic lifts ) until 1965.

Well, there's been pretty clear evidence now that there was a unit that was called the Brigada Olympica, or the Olympic Brigade, that was made up of special forces of the presidential guard, who opened fire from the buildings that surrounded the square, and that that was the thing that provoked the massacre.

From there he went on to play for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

In 2008, it was removed to the East Anglia Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station near Colchester ; there it was cleaned and repainted at the expense of the Olympic Delivery Authority and returned to Stratford in 2011.

* Olympic Figure Skater Johnny Weir refers to Quarryville as his " hometown ", living there for many of his childhood years.

This needs to be expanded to include, for example, Harvey Wollman, Governor of South Dakota ; the McNichol twins ( Army Generals ); twins Dennis Koslowski and Duane Koslowski, Olympic wrestlers ( Dennis won Silver in ' 92 and Bronze in ' 88 Greco-Roman wrestling ; Duane won a world championship in 1986 ); Air Force Major General Chris Divich ; Air Force Lt. Col. Duane Divich ; " Smokey " Joe Mendel, tied the world record for the 100-yd dash in 1931 ; NFL pro football player Bill Noetlich ; and there are more.

The law preventing females from participating in the sport of boxing in Ireland has since been revoked and there is an increasing number of females becoming involved with the sport thanks to its Olympic acceptance and the consistent international success of Katie Taylor.

However, contrary to popular myth, black American sprinter Jesse Owens ', who won four gold medals beating Aryan athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, faced less segregation there than in the USA, and felt snubbed by Roosevelt rather than by Hitler ( see Jesse Owens # Berlin Olympics ).

He currently lives in Slovenia and he plays for the Olympic team there.

Although it was not used as the Olympic stadium as originally intended, Östermalm hosted the lawn tennis and fencing competitions after a tennis pavilion was moved there from another location.

The American delegation at the Games had brought along baseball uniforms, but the American Olympic Committee refused to risk injury to its athletes by having the baseball demonstration take place whilst there were any events still to take place involving those athletes.

In a number of sports, because there were no competitors from other nations, the U. S. national championship was combined with the Olympic championship ( and other events such as a local YMCA swim competition ).