1960
Rome had been chosen, had intervened to stage the 1908 Olympic Games, but the eruption of Vesuvius in southern Italy. It was about 52 years later that the game finally arrived in the Italian capital. The Rome Games were transmitted by television in all European countries and were watched by millions. But the contests were overshadowed by the rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR. In the final medal tally of the USSR finished before the USA with 43to 34 gold medals.
Olympic Highlights
• Running barefoot, has not gone unnoticed Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila, when, in the marathon. He refused to intimidated by the condescending remarks and had all his opponents triumphantly behind the goal line, near Arch of Constantine cross.
• age of 20 years, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in athletics at the Olympics: in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m. It achieves theseexceptional performance, despite a series of children's diseases and recover from a deformed leg caused by polio.
• Cassius Marcellus Clay, later known as MuhammadM /, firstgai / IED r'nfernaffonaf prominence by winning the light heavyweight gold medal. He would later turn professional and go on a phenomenal career.
1964
For the first time the Olympic Games were held in Asia, Japan is investing heavily in the most modern sports facilities andin improving the infrastructure of a city with over 10 million people. The extraordinary architectural design of the swimming stadium held that as a "cathedral of sport" means. Other outstanding new buildings included the judo hall, which was modeled on the architectural style of traditional Japanese temples. The opening ceremony offered a glimpse into what would be record-breaking competition, when teams from 93 nations (10 more than in Rome in part) in the ParadeMeiji Stadium. However, the high standards set by athletes at the Tokyo Games some critics exaggerated expectations for the future development of the Olympic disciplines led warn.
Olympic Highlights
• Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser (see p. 21) won her third consecutive gold medal in the 100m freestyle. She was the first woman swimmer to win eight medals (four gold and four silver) - over three Olympics.
• Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina (see p. 20) has six moreMedals her match in order to win the first woman to win nine Olympic gold medals.
• Deszö Gyarmati won gold with the Hungarian water polo team to ensure the achievement of the (then) unique achievement to win medals at five consecutive Olympic Games
Mexico City 1968
Mexico City, the high altitude - almost 2,240 m (7,350 ft) above sea level, dominates a large part of the Pre-Game Discussion: The consensus is that athletes from lowland countries were disadvantaged. However, several weeksAltitude training improves the performance of many of these athletes. There were violent riots in investing ahead of the Games because of complaints about the exorbitant amounts of money into Olympic facilities, in contrast to their own social problems in Mexico. Controversy also arose over the participation in South Africa on these Games and the IOC has its invitation under pressure. Doping controls were disqualified for the first time a Swedish athlete was introduced prior tomuch alcohol in his blood.
Olympic Highlights
• American Bob Beamon was the favorite in the long jump, but he has exceeded all expectations. His leap of 8.90 meters beat the world record of 0.55m.
• Czech gymnast Vera Caslavska won four gold and two silver medals. These victories were given added significance penetrated by beating the Soviet national gymnastics team shortly after the Soviet tanks was their home.
• American Debbie Meyer was the first woman swimmer to win threeGold medals at one Olympics.
Munich 1972
The 1972 Munich Games were the largest yet, setting records in all categories, with 195 events and 7134 athletes from 121 countries. The games should celebrate the peace, and for the first 10 days all went well. But in the early morning of 5 Eight Palestinian terrorists in September broke the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli team and took nine others hostage. In the battle, all nine IsraeliHostages were killed, along with five of the terrorists and a policeman. The Olympics were suspended and a memorial service held in the stadium. In spite of the terrorists, the International Olympic Committee ordered the competitions, record after a break of 34 hours again. All other details about the Munich Games paled in significance.
Olympic Highlights
• Finnish distance runner Lasse Virén fell midway through the 10,000-meter final, but still a new world recordwins the first of his four career gold medals.
• The media star of the Munich Games was the petite Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, whose three gold medals helped establish Soviet dominance in women's gymnastics events and attracted the attention of fans worldwide.
Montreal 1976
The 1976 Games in Montreal were the boycott of 22 African countries protesting the fact disturbed that, despite the New Zealand rugby team touring South Africa in defiance of international sportingSanctions, New Zealand was allowed to compete. To compound the situation, the hosts suffered an unusually long winter, industrial disputes, and a lack of funds it is impossible to make the work on the Olympic facilities ready in time for the opening ceremony. However, the performances of the athletes did not participate in the political and national disputes. Despite the problems, the games were well organized and after the terrorist attack in Munich in 1972, security wastight.
Olympic Highlights
• Nadia Comaneci was the star of the Games. She achieved her first perfect 10 on the uneven parallel bars, and the judges gave her the maximum mark seven times.
• With his victory in the diving Italian Klaus Dibiasi was the first diver to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals and win medals at four Olympic Games.
• The U.S. and East Germany dominated the swimming events. Only Great Britain's David Wilkie and the SovietUnion Marina Koshevaya (disturb both win their 200m final in record time), the monopoly.
1980
As a result of the US-led boycott to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, only 80 countries were represented at the Moscow Games. Notable absentees included Japan, Germany and the United States. Western countries are often referred to as the Moscow Games as a low standard, and have raised doubts about the value of sporting results and medals.Nevertheless, although not at the highest level, in the Moscow Games barely sub-standard: 36 world records, 39 European records and 73 Olympic records testified that high level of talent and competition in the display.
Olympic Highlights
• Soviet swimmer Vladimir Salnikov won three gold medals in the 400m and 1500m freestyle and 4x200m relay. He was also the first to swim to 1500 meters in a time of less than 15 minutes.
• British middle-distance runners SteveOvett and Sebastian Coe facing each other in two memorable duels. In the 800m, Ovett won the gold medal just ahead of his compatriot. Six days later, a certain Coe redeemed himself in the 1500 meters, taking gold while Ovett could manage only bronze.
• With the victory in the decathlon, Great Britain's Daley Thompson became "King of the athletes," struck home crowd favorite Yuri Kutsenko to second place.
Los Angeles 1984
Although a revenge boycott led by the Soviet Uniondepleted the field in certain sports, a record 140 nations attended the first privately-funded event in Olympic history. More than 30 sponsors together contributed more than 500 million U.S. dollars, while other companies are financed the construction of new sports facilities, an agreement that they advertise it on the tickets. The ABC television network paid 225 million U.S. dollars for the exclusive TV rights, thus ensuring that most of the evening events began during the prime time televisionTime in the U.S.. With these huge sums of money involved, many critics held the view that what was once a festival of amateur sport now a purely commercial spectacle.
Olympic Highlights
• American diver Greg Louganis remained unbeaten from the 3m springboard and the 10m platform.
• Sebastian Coe became the first repeat winner of the men's 1500 meters
• In the women's 400 meters hurdles led Nawal El Moutawakel from beginning to end, so that the firstMoroccan athlete to win a gold medal.
• British gold medalist decathlete Daley Thompson finished just one point from the record.
1988
Fortunately, the vast boycotts of Moscow and Los Angeles does not return to Seoul. For the first time in 12 years, all major Olympic nations, except Cuba and Ethiopia, participated in the Olympics. Although the drug disqualification of sprinter Ben Johnson was the biggest story of the 1988 Olympic Games, SeoulGames were developed by numerous exceptional performances and selected 27 new world records. Once the Soviet Union (55 gold medals shown) and East Germany (37), their sporting superiority over the Western countries by finishing first and second place in the medal table.
Olympic Highlights
• American swimmer Matt Biondi won seven medals including five gold. His gold medals came in the 50m and 100m freestyle and three relays.
• Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka won hisfirst gold medal, clearing 5.90m at the third attempt. Despite being a world record holder and dominating the sport for 14 years (1983-97), it was his only Olympic medal.
• West German speed skater and cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger made Olympic history after becoming the first person to win Summer and Winter Olympic medals in the same year. After winning gold and silver in the speed skating at Calgary, she won silver in the 1,000m sprint cycling.
Barcelona 1992
Spanish IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch brought the Games to his hometown of Barcelona, its thanks to sponsors of the Games at the closing ceremonies. The IOC received millions of dollars in revenue from the sale of TV rights, although many athletes complained that the start times for many events were organized in accordance with prime-time television advertising slots. Teams from a post-apartheid South Africa and a united Germany were again welcomedthe world stage. Men's basketball was open to professionals for the first time, so that the creation of an American "Dream Team" that Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Charles Barkley included.
Olympic Highlights
• Spaniards Fermin Cacho Ruiz was not one of the favorites in the 1,500 m. Under
Advantage of the fact that the race was run on an unusually slow pace, he started his sprint with half a lap to go and with the crowd behind him, gold was held at whichfirst Spanish runner ever to win a gold medal.
• Great Britain's Linford Christie is the oldest man (32 years) to win Olympic gold in the 100m. He added the World Championship title the following year.
• In the closely fought women's 100m, Jamaican Merlene Ottey was just 0.06 seconds behind the winner yet still only finished in fifth place.
Atlanta 1996
The 1996 Atlanta Games were given a poignant start when the cauldron was lit by a visibly shaking Muhammad All, by this time was suffering from Parkinson's disease. On 27 July, during a concert in Centennial Olympic Park instead of, a terrorist bomb killed one person and injured another 110 people, but the Atlanta Games are best for their sporting achievements, including doubles victory Michael Johnson recalls extraordinary 200m and 400m. A record-setting 79 nations won medals, 53 of them to win gold.
Olympic Highlights
• French runner Marie-Jose Perec won the 200m and 400m, breakingThe 400m Olympic record, and thus the first woman to win the 400 meters at two consecutive Olympic Games. It is the most successful French athlete of all time.
• Russian swimmer Alexander Popov won two gold medals in the 50m and 100m freestyle - overtaking American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. in both cases - and two silver medals in the relays.
• Maim Suleymanoglu of Turkey was the first weightlifler in three consecutive Olympic title to win.
• American Michael Johnson'sDouble gold in the 200m and 400m was the first for a man in Olympic history.
Sydney 2000
The Sydney Games were the largest yet, with 10,651 athletes in 300 events. Despite its size, the Games were well organized, renewing faith in the Olympic Movement. Athletes from North and South Korea marched together under one banner, while (four athletes from East Timor, it was only a sovereign state in 2002) were allowed under the Olympic flag as individual participationAthletes. Cathy Freeman, Aboriginal Australians, as was the honor of lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony and repaid the compliment by winning the 400m final before an ecstatic home crowd.
Olympic Highlights
• After the competitions held for over a year of severe shoulder and back problems, French judo champion David Douillet won his second consecutive Olympic gold by beating Shinichi Shinohara of Japan in an excitingfinal.
• 17-year-old Australian swimming sensation Ian Thorpe won his first gold medal in the 400m freestyle by breaking his own world record. He then swam the anchor leg in the 4x100m freestyle, to win again. One-third came from the 4x200m freestyle relay gold, and he has a silver medal in the 200 meters freestyle.
• German canoeist Birgit Fischer won two gold medals in the K-2 and K-4 500m female to win the first Olympic medals 20 years apart.
Athens 2004
In 2004,the Olympic Games returned to Greece, the home of two ancient Olympic Games and the first modern Olympic Games, the National for the first time ever a record 201 Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Olympics, the general result of the events on the program 301 ( more than in Sydney 2000). The popularity of the game soared to new highs as 3.9 billion people had access to the television coverage compared to 3.6 billion euros for Sydney 2000.
Olympic Highlights
• Moroccan HichamEl Guerrouj became the first runner Paavo Nurmi, since in 1924 to win both the 1,500 m and 5000 m. In the 1,500 meters, he was by Bernard Lagat went into the home stretch, but came back to win. In the 5000 meters, he came from behind to defeat 10,000 m champion Kenenisa Bekele.
• Turkish weightlifter Nurcan Taylan won the gold medal in the women's 48kg category. She was the first Turkish woman in any sport to an Olympic championship to win.
• Argentina's men's basketball team put an end tothe rule of experts from the United States, defeating them 89-81 in the semifinals. The Argentines went to Italy to beat in the last 84-69.
• German canoeist Birgit Fischer was the youngest and oldest Olympic canoeing gold medal won her gold medal in the K-1 and K-4 500m -24 years apart and the first female athlete to win gold in six different Olympic Games.
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