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Significant events and changes through-out the history of the Olympics.
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This is the first day of when the summer Olympics began.
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The first Olympics were held in Athens, Greece. Along with U.S.A winning the most amount of gold medals.
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This is last last day of the first Summer Olympics. It carried through the 6th through the 15th of August.
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In St. Louis, Missouri, the first ever Olympics were held in the U.S.
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Were the first ever Olympics cancelled, due to WW1.
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Cancelled due to the on-set of WW2.
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The second Olympics cancelled due to the outbreak of WW2.
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Cancelled again because of WW2.
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Was held in Barcelona, Spain. Gymnastic Artist Vitaly Scherbo won all 6 gold medals in his competitions.
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Was held in Atlanta, Georgia. And weightlifter break multiple records.
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Was held in Sydney, Australia and the first Sri Lankan woman to win a medal: Susanthika Jayasinghe, bronze medallist in the 200m.
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Was held in Athens, Greece and double trap shooter Ahmed Almaktoum won the first gold medal for the United Arab Emirates.
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Was held in Beijing, China and Dutchman Maarten Van Der Weijden won the men’s 10km marathon, while in the women’s race, the title went to Russia’s Larisa Ilchenko.
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Was held in London, UK and there were also 2,961 technical officials and 5,770 team officials
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Were cancelled once again because of World War 2, but were said to be cancelled in 1941.
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Was held in Rio, Brazil and the total amount of medals givin' were 812 gold, 812 silver and 864 bronze.
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