Name: Palmares, Trexie Q.

Section: BPED 2B
Subject Code: BPEd 55 Individual and dual sports
Class Schedule: MW 7:00 – 8:00 am
Email Address: s.palmares.trexie@cmu.edu.ph
Instructor: Crispin S. Quilang

OLYMPICS TIMELINE
OLYMPICS OLYMPICS OLYMPICS OLMYPICS TIMELINE: DETAILED
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DATE PLACE SUMMARY
776BCE Athens, First First recorded evidence of the
Greece Olympics ancient Olympic games. The
games were held at Olympia.
There was only one event – the
men’s 200m sprint.
490BCE Greece First The messenger Pheidippedes ran
Marathon 42km from Sparta to Athens to
bring the news of the Greek victory
at the battle of Marathon.
424BCE Greece Decline With large numbers of young men
having to go to fight against the
Spartans there were fewer athletes
able to train and compete in the
games and so they began to fall
into decline.
394CE Roman Olympics The Roman Emperor, Theodosius
Empire banned I, abolished the games claiming
they were a pagan event.
1612 Cotswolds, Cotswold Robert Dover, a barrister, founded
UK Olympick the Cotswold Olympick Games.
Games The games featured horse racing,
fencing, shin-kicking and throwing
the hammer.
1766 Greece Ancient Englishman Richard Chandler
Olympia site discovered the site of ancient
found Olympia.
1796 France French L’Olympiade de la République was
Olympic an olympic-style yearly competition
Revival held between 1796 and 1798 in
France.
1850 Shropshire, Wenlock An Olympic-style yearly sports
UK Olympian festival was established in Much
Games Wenlock, Shropshire, UK by Dr
William Penny Brookes. It
 continues to this day.
1859 Greece Zappian Dr William Penny Brookes
Games persuaded Greek Evangelis
Zappas to stage a revival of the
ancient Olympic games. Brookes
sent 10 pounds to be used as prize
money.
1875 Greece Olympia A German-funded team of
Excavated archeologists excavated the site of
ancient Olympia.
1890 Shropshire, Pierre de Pierre de Coubertin was invited to
UK Coubertin attend the Much Wenlock games
visited Much by Dr William Penny Brookes.
Wenlock
1894 France IOC The International Olympic
founded Committee was founded by Baron
Pierre de Coubertin who took the
title of President of the committee.
Coubertin suggested that the
Olympics be re-established as an
international four-yearly event to
be hosted by different countries
each time.
1896 Athens First Modern The first modern Olympic games
Greece Olympic was held in Athens, Greece. All
Games winners were presented with an
olive branch and a silver medal.
1900 Paris, France Women Paris hosted these games without
competed a stadium. Most events were held
for the first in the Bois de Boulogne and
time swimming events were held in the
river Seine. Women competed for
the first time.
1904 St Louis, Gold, silver Gold, silver and bronze medals
USA and bronze were introduced. Winners of
medals events were given a gold medal,
were second place a silver medal and
introduced third place a bronze medal.
1908 London, UK Olympic For the first time the Olympics take
Stadium place in a purpose built stadium.
Figure skating was introduced as
an Olympic sport. Australia and
New Zealand competed together
as Australasia.
1912 Stockholm, Competitors Athletes from all 5 continents take
Sweden from all 5 part. A public address system and
continents electric timing devices were used
 for the first time. The Decathlon
and Pentathlon were introduced for
the first time.
1914 Berlin, Olympic Pierre de Coubertin designed the
German Rings Olympic symbol of 5 interlocking
Empire rings.
1916 Berlin, Due to be held in Berlin this games
German was cancelled due to World War
Empire One
1920 Antwerp, Doves first The Olympic rings symbol was
Belgium released used for the first time. It was
depicted on a flag with a white
background which has been used
ever since and is known as the
Olympic flag. The opening
ceremony saw doves, which
symbolise peace, released for the
first time. Austria, Bulgaria,
Germany, Hungary and Turkey
were not allowed to take part
because they were defeated in
World War One.
1924 Chamonix, Winter The first Winter Olympics were
France Olympics held in Chamonix France
1924 Paris, France Summer The games returned to Paris
Olympics France
1928 St Moritz, Winter The second Winter Olympics held
Switzerland Olympics in St Moritz, Switzerland
1928 Amsterdam, Summer Amsterdam had previously bid for
Netherlands Olympics the 1920 and 1924 games. The
Olympic flame was lit for the first
Olympic time and burned throughout the
Flame first entire competition. At the opening
lit ceremony Greece led the athletes
procession with the host nation at
the end for the first time.
1930 Uruguay First FIFA Jules Rimet abandoned all hope of
World Cup incorporating football into the
Olympic games and established a
separate competition – the FIFA
World Cup.
1932 Lake Placid, Winter First Winter Olympics in America
USA Olympics
1932 Los Angeles, Summer First use of a photo finish camera.
USA Olympics First time winners stood on a tiered
stand with national flags raised
 above them
1936 Garmisch- Winter Alpine skiing was introduced for
Partenkirche Olympics the first time.
n, Germany
1936 Berlin, First First Olympics to be televised,
Germany televised however the footage could only be
Olympics watched on local television.
Basketball became an Olympic
Summer sport for the first time and was won
Olympics by the USA.
1940 Cancelled – Cancelled due to World War Two
1944 Cancelled – Cancelled due to World War Two
1948 St Moritz, Winter Germany and Japan were not
Switzerland Olympics invited to take part
1948 London, UK Austerity Dubbed the ‘Austerity Games’ as
Games there was no money to fund a
lavish spectacle.
Summer
Olympics
1948 Stoke Forerunner Sir Ludwig Guttmann organised a
Mandeville to sports event for recuperating
Games Paralympics British veterans of World War Two
to coincide with the London
Games. It was called the Stoke
Mandeville Games after the
leading rehabilitation hospital at
Stoke Mandeville and became an
annual event.
1952 Oslo, Winter After much discussion Germany
Norway Olympics and Japan were allowed to
compete
1952 Helsinki , Summer
Finland Olympics
1956 Cortina Winter Snow had to be imported into the
d’Ampezzo, Olympics country before the games could
Italy even begin.
1956 Melbourne, Boycotts Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt boycotted
Australia the games in protest at the British,
Summer French and Israeli invasion of
Olympics Egypt (Suez Crisis) Netherlands,
Spain and Switzerland boycotted
the games in protest at the Soviet
invasion of Hungary
The People’s Republic of China
boycotted the games in protest at
the games’ recognition of Formosa
(now Taiwan)
1960 Squaw Winter The games were awarded to
Valley, USA Olympics Squaw Valley despite its not being
 a city but a winter sports resort
1960 Rome, Italy Summer Many events took place in the
Olympics ancient ruins around the city.
1960 Rome Sir Ludwig Guttmann brought a
Paralympics team of disabled athletes to
compete in a games parallel to the
Olympics. The name was
shortened to Paralympics.
1964 Innsbruck, Winter Warm weather meant that the
Austria Olympics Austrian army had to bring lorry
loads of snow from alpine regions
before the games could begin
1964 Tokyo, Summer First Olympics held in Asia
Japan Olympics
1968 Grenoble, Winter An Olympic ban on branded
France Olympics equipment was revoked after many
competitors protested that without
donated equipment from sponsors
they would not be able to compete
at all
1968 Mexico City, Summer First Olympics held in Central
Mexico Olympics America.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos
both give the ‘black power’ salute
as the US national anthem is
played in protest against racial
prejudice in America.
1972 Sapporo, Winter First Winter Olympics to be held in
Japan Olympics Asia.
1972 Munich, Summer Black September terrorists killed
Germany Olympics 11 members of the Israeli Olympic
team
1976 Innsbruck, Winter Originally awarded to Denver, USA
Austria Olympics but transferred to Innsbruck when
Denver rejected the offer due to
costs
1976 Montreal, Summer 31 nations boycotted the games as
Canada Olympics a protest against the New Zealand
rugby team’s recent game with
South Africa
Increased costs together with a
reduced number of visitors nearly
bankrupted Montreal
1980 Lake Placid, Winter The Winter games were held at
 USA Olympics Lake Placid for a second time
1980 Moscow, Western 61 Nations refused to compete in
Soviet Union boycott, these games as a protest against
Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Summer
Olympics
1984 Sarajevo, Winter Torvill and Dean, GB skaters
Yugoslavia Olympics scored perfect 6’s for their Bolero
routine
1984 Los Angeles, Eastern 15 communist block countries
USA boycott refused to compete in these
Summer games in retaliation for the boycott
Olympics of the Moscow Olympics 4 years
earlier. Romania was the only
communist block country to take
part and came 2nd in the medals
table.
1986 Amateur The IOC agreed to drop the
status requirement that competitors
requirement taking part in the Olympics had to
dropped have amateur status. The official
Olympic Charter was amended
accordingly.
1988 Calgary, Winter The Winter games were extended
Canada Olympics to 16 days
1988 Seoul, South Summer 11 medalists disqualified for using
Korea Olympics banned substances. The cost of
the games was met by the sale of
TV broadcasting rights.
1992 Albertville, Winter Albertville is the smallest place to
France Olympics host an Olympics
1992 Barcelona, Summer Former Soviet Union members
Spain Olympics competed as a Unified Team and
Germany competed as one nation
following the collapse of the Soviet
Union.
1994 Lillehammer, Winter Norway’s second Olympics to date
winter Norway Olympics and the first time that Olympics
alternated between summer and
winter every two years
1996 Atlanta, USA Summer Television rights were sold for a
Olympics record sum and Coca-Cola was a
major sponsor of these games.
1998 Nagano, Winter Women’s ice hockey débuted at
Japan Olympics this Olympics
2000 Sydney, Summer Steve Redgrave won a fifth
Australia Olympics consecutive gold medal in rowing.
2002 Salt Lake Winter Despite members of the IOC
 City, USA Olympics accepting sweetners from the NOC
Salt Lake City did not lose the right
to stage these games.
2004 Athens, Summer The games returned to Athens.
Greece Olympics The cost involved in staging the
Olympics, especially with regard to
increased security provision
following the 9/11 terror attacks led
to delays and venues were
completed only just in time.
2006 Turin, Italy Winter The second Winter Olympics held
Olympics in Italy
2008 Beijing, Summer 43 world records and 132 Olympic
China Olympics records were broken during the
2008 Summer Olympic Games in
Beijing.
Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals
in swimming the most ever at a
single Olympics
2010 Vancouver, Winter The first games to hold its opening
Canada Olympics ceremony indoors
2012 London, UK Summer The games return to London for
Olympics the third time
2016 Rio De Summer The first Summer Olympics to be
Janeiro, Olympics held in South America.
Brazil
2020 Tokyo, Summer The event was postponed due to a
Japan Olympics Worldwide Coronavirus outbreak
and was held in August 2021.