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This is when The Olympics were officially created.
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This was also the only Olympic Games in history to use live animals (pigeons) as targets during the shooting event.
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The race was held in 90-degree weather on a dust-covered road, and the inhospitable conditions conspired to force 18 of the 32 competitors to withdraw from exhaustion.
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The first to feature both the decathlon and the new pentathlon.
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1916 Olympics cancelled due to world war 1.
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This is when the first Olympic Games took place.
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The German government used the international spotlight as an opportunity to portray the country as a benign and progressive nation while also providing fuel for its Aryan-superiority propaganda.
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Germany and Japan were not invited to take part in the first Olympic Games after WWII, which took place in 1948 in London.
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Two protests led to fewer than 67 countries participating in the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games.
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Rudolph, who suffered from pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio, was paralyzed in her left leg as a child and wasn’t able to run until age 11. Yet at the Rome Games, she became the first Woman to get 3 gold medals in one single Olympics.
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At the Mexico City Games, Bob Beamon jumped 29 feet and 2 ½ inches. Mike Powell Beat it in 1991.
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At the Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos took their first- and third-placed podiums barefoot and, during the playing of the U.S. national anthem, raised a single black glove while bowing their heads. The American sprinters and second-place Peter Norman from Australia wore human rights badges. Smith and Carlos were promptly banned by the IOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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The terrorists took nine Israeli Olympians hostage, attempting to bargain for the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners. After a standoff with an inadequate German police force, the terrorists were able to arrange transportation for themselves and the hostages to a nearby airport. When the German police force failed at their ambush attempt, the terrorists killed the Israeli hostages.
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Some two dozen countries, mostly from Africa, boycotted the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal after the IOC refused to ban New Zealand from the Games.
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The 1994 Winter Olympics, held in Lillehammer, Norway, were the first Winter Games to be held in a different year from the Summer Games.
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At the Seoul Games, Florence Griffith-Joyner, popularly known as FloJo, earned the title of “fastest woman in the world”
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At the 1988 Seoul Games, Greg Louganis became the first male diver to win both the 3m springboard and 10m platform in consecutive Olympic Games.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/tokyo-summer-olympics/americas-biggest-olympic-milestones-in-modern-history/2508135/
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At Barcelona, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird -- the United States men's Olympic basketball team defeated every opponent it faced.
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Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali lights Olympic torch at 1996 Atlanta Games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEhNDUwksvU
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In 1996's Atlanta Games, Michael Johnson became the only man in history to win the 200m and 400m in the same Olympic Games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQVnQ8_C0E
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