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The modern Olympics started in Greece and continues today. -
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Women weren't always aloud in the Olympics and this is when they pushed it to reality. -
The USA wins 41 Gold medals during the 1920 Summer Olympics!
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The Summer Olympics of 1956 was the first Olympics held outside of the USA and Europe. It was hosted in Melbourne. -
Jamaica finally gets a bobsled team into the Olympics.
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Gail Devers won the closest ever 100m sprint in the Olympics. -
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Closest gold at .09 seconds. -
Kelly Holmes won a double gold that made history. -
Natalia Kanounnikova did 308 rotations in one minute!
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near-perfect 46.8 points out of a possible 50 earned him a gold medal in the halfpipe competition -
Usain Bolt breaks world record in Beijing at 9.68 seconds on a 100m sprint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93dC0o2aHto -
Michael Phelps breaks the world record for the 200m freestyle in Beijing 2008.
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Damian Warner wins a gold medal for a men's Decathlon in the Olympics in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7SceKfDC2c -
A fourteen year old girl named Quan Hongchan was in the Olympics and receives seven tens on her dive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXg30_BgOEQ -
Sha'Carri Richardson won the name "America's Fastest Woman" by putting her heart into racing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5jWmeCZzp4
