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	Contestants	Nations	Contestants per nation
34) 2028 Los Angeles
33) 2024 Paris
32) 2021 Tokyo
31) 2016 Rio de Janiero	11,238	207	54.3
30) 2012 London	10,768	204	52.8
29) 2008 Beijing	10,942	204	53.6
28) 2004 Athens	10,625	201	52.9
27) 2000 Sydney	10,651	199	53.5
26) 1996 Atlanta	10,320	197	52.4
25) 1992 Barcelona	9,356	169	55.4
24) 1988 Seoul	8,391	159	52.8
23) 1984 Los Angeles	6,829	140	48.8
22) 1980 Moscow	5,179	80	64.7
21) 1976 Montreal	6,084	92	66.1
20) 1972 Munich	8,512	121	70.3
19) 1968 Mexico City	6,082	109	55.8
18) 1964 Tokyo	5,541	94	58.9
17) 1960 Rome	5,396	84	64.2
16) 1956 Melbourne	3,539	67	52.8
15) 1952 Helsinki	5,867	69	85.0
14) 1948 London	6,005	59	101.8
13) 1944 London Postponed
12) 1940 Tokyo Cancelled
11) 1936 Berlin	4,069	51	79.8
10) 1932 Los Angeles	2,403	39	61.6
9) 1928 Amsterdam	3,905	46	84.9
8) 1924 Paris	3,385	45	75.2
7) 1920 Antwerp	2,741	26	105.4
6) 1916 Berlin Cancelled
5) 1912 Stockholm	4,742	17	278.9
4) 1908 London	2,008	22	91.3
3) 1904 St Louis	1,505	7	215.0
2) 1900 Paris	1,505	16	94.1
1) 1896 Athens	484	13	37.2

2028, 34^th Olympics Los Angeles

2024, 33^rd Olympics Paris

23 July 2021, 32^nd Olympics Tokyo, opened. Postponed from 2020, due to Covid19. They took place without spectators, in closed stadiums.

24 March 2020, Japan�s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, announced a postponement of the Olympic Games until Summer 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2016, 31^st Olympics Rio de Janeiro,

27 July 2012, The 30^th Summer 2012 Olympics began in London; they finished on 12 August 2012.

2 October 2009, The 2016 31^st Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro.

2008, 29^th Summer Olympics in Beijing.

5 June 2007, Russia was chosen to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, at Sochi.

6 July 2005, The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 Summer Games to London. Other cities in the finals were Paris and Madrid.

13 August 2004, The 28th Summer Olympics opened in Athens. They closed on 29 August 2004.

25 November 2000, The Spanish Paralympic Committee began an investigation after allegations that some members of the Spanish team did not in fact have any mental impairments. 15 athletes were found to have no disability and the Spanish basketball team had to return their gold medals.

1 October 2000, The Olympic Games in Sydney closed.

15 September 2000, The 27^th 2000 Summer Olympics opened in Sydney, Australia.

8 February 1998, Women�s ice hockey was first played at the Winter Olympics.

19 July 1996, Muhammad Ali lit the flame to open the 26^th Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

23 September 1993, The International Olympic committee awarded the 2000 Olympic Games to Sydney. Beijing had received the most votes in earlier voting rounds but was rejected over human rights concerns.

9 August 1992, The Barcelona Olympic Games closed.

31 July 1992. The 25^th Olympic Games were held in Barcelona. Black market tickets to the Olympics had been selling for $1,500.

27 March 1991, The International Olympics Committee readmitted South Africa, after 30 years exclusion.

17 September 1988. The 24^th Olympic Games opened in Seoul. Tennis became an Olympic sport again, after a break of 64 years.

28 July 1984. The 23^rd Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.

7 May 1984, Moscow announced it would boycott the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, in revenge for the US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

19 July 1980, The 22^nd Olympic Games opened in Moscow. Women�s hockey became am Olympic sport.

21 March 1980, The US announced it would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. On 24 March 1980 the Australian Olympic Commission announced it would send a team to Moscow, despite objections by the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser.

18 July 1976. The 21^st Olympic Games opened in Montreal.

26 August 1972. The 20^th Olympic Games at Munich opened.

3 February 1972, The first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia opened at Sapporo, Japan.

12 October 1968. The 19^th Olympic Games opened in Mexico City.

10 October 1964. The 18^th Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. Judo became an Olympic sport.

18 August 1964, The International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from the Tokyo Games because of its policy of apartheid.

18 September 1960, The first Paralympic Games as such were held, in Rome.

25 August 1960. The 17^th Olympic Games opened in Rome.

22 November 1956. The 16^th Olympic Games opened in Melbourne. This was the first time the Games had been held in the Southern hemisphere.

28 May 1959, In Munich, the International Olympic Committee voted to withdraw recognition form Nationalist China (Taiwan) and to recognise China if it applied for membership. The US protested and Congress withdrew funding for the Squaw Valley Winter Games.

16 January 1956, The Winter Olympics opened at Cortina d�Ampezzo, Italy.

1952, The first Paralympic Games were held. They were organised by neurologist Dr Ludwig Guttmann (1899 � 1980) as a competition involving World War Two veterans with spinal injuries. The aim was not just physical rehabilitation but the restoration of confidence and self-respect. They were oroiginally known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, launched at the 1948 London Summer Olympics. The term �para� now refers to the games run �alongside� the Olympic Games.

19 July 1952, The 15^th Olympic Games opened in Helsinki, Finland.

14 August 1948, The London Olympics closed.

29 July 1948. The first post-war Olympic Games, the 14^th, opened in London. Opened by King George V at Wembley Stadium, these were the first Games since those in Berlin in 1936. The atmosphere was one of post-war austerity and reconstruction, and Japan, the USSR, and Germany were not present. The USA won 38 gold medals.� The UK came 12^th.

1944, The 13^th Olympic Games were to have been held in London, but were cancelled due to the War. Instead, London hosted the 1948 Games.

21 September 1940, The day scheduled for the opening of the 12^th Olympic Games in Tokyo. However they were cancelled due to the War.

25 November 1939, International Olympic Committee President Henri de Baillet-Latour announced the cancellation of the 1940 Winter Olympics, which would have been held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

2 September 1937, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, reviver of the modern Olympics in 1896, died.

1 August 1936. Adolf Hitler opened the 11^th Olympic Games in Berlin.� The Olympic flame was carried to the venue from Greece for the first time.� Canoeing became an Olympic sport.

30 July 1932, The 10^th Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles. Handball was first included.

28 July 1928, The 9^th Olympic Games opened in Amsterdam.

5 July 1924, The 8^th Olympic games opened in Paris. Bobsleighing was first included in the Olympic Games. Germany did not attend.

4 February 1924, Close of the 1st Winter Olympic Games at Chamonix, France.

25 January 1924. The first Winter Olympics were held, at Chamonix, France. Novel events included bobsleighing, fencing (for women).

14 August 1920, The 7^th Olympic Games opened in Antwerp. Ice hockey became an Olympic sport (it was moved to the Winter Olympics from 1924).

17 July 1920, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee, was born.

1916, The 6^th Olympic Games scheduled� for Berlin were cancelled due to World War One.

6 July 1912, The 5^th Olympic Games opened in Stockholm. Swimming (women) was now included, also the decathlon, pentathlon and dressage became Olympic events.

28 May 1909, The 1912 Summer Olympics were awarded by the IOC to Stockholm, at a meeting in Berlin.

13 July 1908, The 4^th Olympic games opened at the newly-built White City stadium in west London. The Games were originally scheduled for Rome, but Italy was facing financial issues, including costs arising from a 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (7/4/1906).� The Finnish team made a political point by refusing to carry the Russian flag; the Olympic Committee refused to allow them to carry their own flag, so they marched flagless. Also some athletes with Irish Republican sympathies refused to compete in the British team. Javelin-throwing, rowing, the marathon, and men�s hockey became Olympic sports.

1 July 1904, The third Olympic Games opened in St Louis, USA. Boxing, freestyle wrestling, Diving, became Olympic sports for the first time.

22 July 1900, At the 1900 Summer Olympics, Walter Tewksbury of the USA won the 200-metre race for his fifth medal.

14 May 1900. Second Olympic Games began in Paris. Women were now allowed to compete. The Games caused further controversy by holding events on a Sunday, leading to pressure on some US athletes who, as representatives of their colleges, were expected to withdraw rather than compete on the Sabbath. Water polo was now included in the Games.

6 April 1896, The modern Olympic Games, revived by Pierre de Coubertin, were opened at Athens. Sports included fencing, cycling, athletics, shooting, weight-lifting, swimming, the marathon, wrestling (Graeco-Roman style) and the tug of war. Women were not allowed to compete, as in the original Greek Olympics.

The original Olympic Games were first recorded in 776 BC although they had already been played for centuries by then; they were played every four years in honour of the God Zeus.� They were abolished by the Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius, to discourage paganism, in AD 394

25 November 1892, Pierre de Coubertin proposed the revival of the Olympic Games. He saw this as a means to improve the physical condition of French youth. See also Greece.

1 January 1863, Pierre de Coubertin, responsible for the modern revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, was born.

30 October 1855, Lord Desborough, Olympics administrator, was born (died 9 January 1945).

1859, The new State of Greece tried to revive the Olympic tradition, but through to 1889 these plans were thwarted by protests that onoly the very wealthy would be able to afford to travel to Athens.

1604, In Britiain the so-called �Cotswold Olympics� were held.

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