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OLYMPICS TIMELINE
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OLYMPICS TIMELINE

1896

1900

1912

1916

1920

1924

1936

1960

1988

2012

2016

2020

The first modern Olympic Games were in Greece. There were silver medals for winners and bronze medals for second place. There weren't any gold medals.

Women weren't competitors until 1900. That year there were more competitors than spectators.

There was an eleven-hour-forty-minute wrestling match between Martin Klein and Alfred Asikainen. It was the longest competition in Olympic history.

In 1916, 1940 and 1944, there weren't any games because of war.

There wasn't an Olympic flag until 1920. The flag of every country in the world has got one of the five Olympic colours in it.

In the first Winter Olympics in France, the Canadian ice hockey team were champions with 122 goals.

Twelve-year-old swimmer Inge Sorensen from Denmark was the youngest medalist in Olympic history.

Abebe Bikila from Ethiopia was the first African to win a gold medal after running a marathon without shoes.

Table tennis is one of the most popular sports in the world, but it wasn't in the Olympics until 1988.

Hiroshi Hoketsu was a competitor in a horse-riding competition at the age of seventy one.

In Rio, golf and rugby were the first events in nearly 100 years.

The Olympics were delayed a year because of the coronavirus pandemic around the world. It is currently taking place in Tokyo.

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