1912 Olympic Games
- Stockholm
- first year women swam in the olympics
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1904 Olympics Games
- St. Louis
- year that basketball entered the games
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1936 Olympics Games
- Berlin
- Jesse Owens- 100, 200, 4*100 relay, long jump
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1920 Olympic Games
- Antwerp
- Olympics flag was flown for the first time
- athletes had to take an oath
, 1924 Olympics Games
- Paris
- this was the expulsion of tennis
1928 Olympics Games
- Amsterdam
- track/field events became open to women
1932 Olympic Games
- Los Angeles
- less competitors in these games becasue europeans did not want to travel to america
Olympics cancelled?
1940-42, because of WWII
- 1940: flamed burned in LA during the time when the 1940 olympiad was to have taken place
1948 Olympic Games
- London
- british agreed to host the games even though much of the city was devasted by the German
Blitzkrieg
- Germany and Japan were excluded from these games because of their actions in WWII
- Bob Mathias- youngest person to win the good medal in the decathalon
- Alice Coachman- won the high jump competititon/ first AA woman to capture a gold medal
- london citizens did not embrance the games hing held in london because austerity measured
were enacted by the government to cope with shortages in food, housing, medical care, and
other necessities in consequence of the war
1968 and 1972 Olympic Games
- Mexico City and Munich, respectfully
- had high amounts of politics embedded in the olympics
1960 Olympic Games
- Rome
- Muhammad Ali- won the gold in heavyweight boxing
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