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1964 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad was an ... The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, and the first time ... sports huge in Japan, were tried out using Toshiba's new color transmission ... The following games in 1968 in Mexico City also began in October.
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First summer Olympic Games televised in colour | Guinness World ...  Who: 1968 Summer Olympics held Mexico City, Mexico; What: first; Where ... The summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1968 were the first summer Games...
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1968 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1968 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968. These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the ... The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year, after the...
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First time at the Olympics - Olympic Games Museum  First time at the Olympic Games. ... Television, live colour pictures, 1964. Timing, automatic for track .... Free of television rights boycotts, the summer Games held later that year in Rome were the first to be fully televised. ... 1968 Mexico City...
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Mexico 1968 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights  The choice of Mexico City to host the 1968 Olympic Games proved to be a controversial ... The high altitude led to world records in all of the men's races that were 400m or ... spectacular long jump of 8.90m - a world record that would last for 22 years. ... Wyomia Tyus of the US became the first athlete to win the 100m twice.
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1988 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad were an international multi-sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the .... Since HIV cannot survive in open water, no other divers were ever in danger.
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List of Olympic mascots - Wikipedia  Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France the Olympic Games have had a mascot. The first major mascot in the Summer Olympic Games was Misha...
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Expo 86 - Wikipedia  The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ... The transportation theme reflected the city's role in connecting Canada by rail, .... again for an international audience at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Korea, as a...
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1904 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, was an ... It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held in a majority English language ... 80% of competitors were from the United States, and in over half of the ... The city of Chicago, Illinois originally won the bid to host the 1904 Summer...
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1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy. Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, .... Despite this arrangement, many daytime events were broadcast in North...
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First modern Olympics is held - Apr 06, 1896 - HISTORY.com  On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with ... in Paris in June 1984 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad. ... The U.S. hosted the Olympics for the first time in 1904, in St. Louis.
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First American Olympiad - May 14, 1904 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, First American Olympiad on May 14, 1904. ... Twenty years later, the first truly successful Olympic Games were held in Paris, and ... with increasing popularity, the games have been held in various cities around the globe.
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Atlanta Selected to Host Olympic Games in 1996 - latimes  Sep 19, 1990 ... YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsOlympic Games (1996) ... first of the modern Olympics in 1896, as well as representing the country that ... could not entrust the Centennial Games to a city that has been plagued by...
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1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1900 Summer Olympics today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, was an ... "Paris 1900" redirects here. ... A decision was made to hold the first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens and .... Rudolf Bauer of Hungary won the discus ... He narrowly missed making Olympic history by winning two medals in the...
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1992 Olympic Games Barcelona - Barcelona Life  Highlights of the Olympics and the urban renewal of Barcelona Spain. ... The 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona were an enormous success, both as an ... renewal of Barcelona the city... but let's start by remembering the Games themselves! ... the building of the Olympic Stadium and the Palace of Sant Jordi, and a host of...
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1900 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1900 Summer Olympics today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1900 in Paris, France, and the last Summer Olympics to be held in the 19th century. No opening or closing ceremonies were held; competitions began on May ... Women took part in the games for the first time and sailor Hlne de...
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1996 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia  The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, USA were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games where International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability athletes were given full medal status. ... Host city, Atlanta, United States.
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NBC Olympic broadcasts - Wikipedia  The broadcasts of Summer and Winter Olympic Games produced by NBC Sports is shown on ... NBC televised its first Olympic Games in 1964, when it broadcast that year's ... Eight years later, he would call the famous 1980 "Miracle On Ice" at that ... provided three pay-per-view channels that each offered separate event...
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Athens 1896 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights  The first celebration of the modern Olympic Games took place in its ancient birthplace of Athens. The Games attracted athletes from 14 nations, with the largest...
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The Olympic Torch Relay's Surprising Origins - History in the ...  May 17, 2012 ... The ritual of the Olympic torch relay originated not in ancient Greece, but in Nazi Germany. ... At a solemn ceremony in Olympia, Greece, on July 20, 1936, the searing ... 12-day overland relay to Berlin, host city of the 1936 Summer Games. ... to light the flame, and an Opel car carrying a spare Olympic flame...
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Olympic Games | Olympics Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia  The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in ... and St. Louis (1904) were overshadowed by the World's Fair exhibitions in which they ... The first host city will be Singapore in 2010; the first Winter Olympics is in ..... in 1984, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan opened the Summer Olympics...