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Women's ice hockey débuted at this Olympics
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Steve Redgrave won a fifth consecutive gold medal in rowing.
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Despite members of the IOC accepting sweetners from the NOC Salt Lake City did not lose the right to stage these games.
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The games returned to Athens. 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.
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The second Winter Olympics held in Italy
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43 world records and 132 Olympic 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
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The first games to hold its opening ceremony indoors
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The games return to London for the third time
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