Summer Olympics

By Trey Matthews

  • First Summer Olympics

    The first summer Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, and the U.S. had 11 gold medals.

  • First Olympics in the U.S

    The first U.S Olympics were celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri

  • Olympics Cancelled #1

    The first modern Olympics to be cancelled due to war were the 1916 Berlin Games

  • Olympics Cancelled #2

    The outbreak of World War II meant a cancellation for the Helsinki Games

  • Olympics Cancelled #3

    The 1944 Olympics in London were also cancelled because Germany invaded Poland

  • Barcelona Olympics

    Men's basketball became open to all professionals and the US sent the Dream Team of superstars including Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird

  • Atlanta Olympics

    Tragedy struck when a terrorist bomb exploded in the Centennial Olympic Park, where two people died and a further 110 people were injured

  • Sydney Olympics

    Triathlon and taekwondo were two new additions to the Olympics in the Sydney Games

  • Athens Olympics

    Swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with eight total medals

  • Beijing Olympics

    More than 40 world records and over 130 Olympic records were broken

  • London Olympics

    Up to 180,000 spectators a day entered the Olympic Park to enjoy the Games

  • Rio Olympics

    The United States had 121 medals total