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2016First time in history, when this famous Event will be celebrated in a South American country. RIO DE JANEIRO GAMES
2012 Phelps ended his Olympic swimming career with another gold medal. He amassed 22 medals in his Olympic career: 18 gold,
two silver, and two bronze.
LONDON SUMMER GAMES
2008The 2008 Summer Games ended on Aug. 24 with the United States, China, and Russia taking home the most medals. BEIJING SUMMER GAMES
2004ATHENS GAMES
200017-year-old Ian Thorpe of Australia wins four medals (three gold) in swimming, breaking
his own world record in the 400m freestyle. SYDNEY GAMES
1996 Muhammad Ali lights the cauldron at the start of the Centennial Games. A pipe bomb
in Centennial Olympic Park kills one person and injures 111, but the Games go on.
ATLANTA GAMES
1992For the first time in decades, every single nation with an Olympic Committee shows up, even Cuba, North Korea, and South Africa.
BARCELONA GAMES
1988 North Korea refuses to participate, and Cuba and Ethopia follow suit in solidarity, but there are no widespread boycotts for the first time since 1972.
SEOUL SUMMER GAMES
1984The first privately-financed Olympic with a profitof more than $215 million.
LOS ANGELES SUMMER GAMES
1980MOSCOW SUMMER GAMES
197614-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scores seven perfect 10s on the way to three gold medals, plus
a silver and a bronze. Nobody had achieved even one 10 before. MONTREAL SUMMER GAMES
1972 The Games are overshadowed when members of the Black September terrorist group kidnap eleven
Israeli athletes from the Olympic Village, killing two and taking the other nine hostage.
MUNICH SUMMER GAMES
1968These Games are controversially held at the highest altitude ever: 7,349 feet. MEXICO CITY SUMMER GAMES
1964 Japan spends about $3 billion to rebuild Tokyo for the Olympics, revitalizing a city that had been
devastated by earthquakes and World War II bombings.TOKYO SUMMER GAMES
1960The first Summer Games covered by television worldwide.
ROME SUMMER GAMES
1956MELBOURNE SUMMER GAMES
1952Russian athletes participate for the first time in forty years. HELSINKI SUMMER GAMES
1948 The first Games to be shown on home television.
LONDON GAMES
1940Games called off due to World War II.
WORLD WAR II
1936 The Games are the first to be televised, being shown on large screens around Berlin.BERLIN GAMES
1932Paavo Nurmi is barred from the Los Angeles Games, on grounds that, on a trip to a German meet, he had claimed too much money in travel expenses. LOS ANGELES GAMES
1928AMSTERDAM GAMES
1924Originally planned to take place in Amsterdam, the Games are moved to Paris at the urging of Baron de Coubertin. PARIS GAMES
1920 Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey are not invited, having been on the
wrong side of the Great War.ANTWERP GAMES
1916Games cancelled due to World War I.
WORLD WAR I
1912 Finland begins its domination of long-distance running events,as Hannes Kolehmainen picks up
three gold medals and a silver.STOCKHOLM GAMES
1908The 1906 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius requires the Games to move from Rome to London.
LONDON GAMES
1906INTERCALATED GAMES
1904Only 13 countries show up. ST. LOUIS GAMES
1900 The second modern Games are overshadowed by, and incorporated into,the Paris Exposition.
1,319 men from 26 countries compete in 75 events.PARIS GAMES
1896The first modern Olympic Games. 14 countries are represented by about 245 men, competing in 43 events. ATHENS GAMES
1894 At the urging of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) is founded.FIRST MODERN
OLYMPIC GAMES
394 A.D.Roman Emperor Theodosius I abolishes the Games, as part of a series of reforms against pagan practices.
THE GAMES ARE ABOLISHED
776 B.C.
ANCIENT GREECEAthletic contests are held at Olympia every four years,
between August 6 and September 19.
OLYMPIC GAMES TIMELINE