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New Olympic timeline

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  • First modern summer Olympics

    Athens Greece, the USA held the most gold medals and came out with 20 medals overall.

  • First time the USA hosted the Olympics

    1904, St. Louis Missouri.

  • Summer Olympics were first cancelled

    The 1916 Summer Olympics in Berlin were canceled because of WWI.

  • Second and third time the Olympics were cancelled

    The 1940 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, as well as the 1944 Summer Olympics in London were canceled because of WWII.

  • Barcelona 1992

    For the first time since 1972, the games were boycott- free.

  • Atlanta 1996

    Sailor Hubert Raudaschi became the first person ever to compete in nine Olympic games.

  • Sydney 2000

    Triathlon and taekwondo were added to the games.

  • Athens 2004

    This was the biggest and most popular Olympic games.

  • Beijing 2008

    The womens 800m swimming record was originally held by USA’s Janet Evans for almost 20 years. Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington smashed the record by over 2 seconds.

  • London 2012

    10568 Athletes competed.

  • Rio 2016

    Michael Phelps swam his last race in the Olympic games.