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1896 BCE
Athens
Invention of the games... -
Period: 1895 BCE to
Existence of The Olympic Games
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Female athletes compete for the first time
Women first competed alongside the men in 190o games of Paris. 22 out of 997 athletes were female in the games and while only being able to compete in five sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrian and golf it was the first time they were allowed to play at all. Now that we play every sport and are -
Jessie Owens wins Gold... in seven events
In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, Berlin, it was supposed to be an act to showcase how Aryan were above the rest, but the most successful participant was dark American athlete, Jesse Owens. He won gold in 100m, 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump. -
First Paralympians
London, 1948 was the first time the Paralympics were introduced where people in wheelchairs competed. Ludwig Guttman founded the International Wheelchair Games to help post soldiers of WW2 rehabilitate. -
Turn on the tv, Olympics are on today
For the first time in history, the Olympics were streamed from Rome in 1960. In the Roman Games, they shadowed the Olympians, advertisements branded on them, bestowing questionable tactics on the competitors into television. -
Horror befalls in Munich
In Munich 1972, a Palestinian terrorists group by the name of Black September, took hostage and killed 11 of the Isralian Olympic team, a German policeman killed in crossfire. -
Boycott of 1976
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, 22 African nations produced a boycott in the event of New Zealand's rugby team being able to participate after they toured and apartheid South Africa earlier in the year. Iraq and Guyana also took part in the boycott. Tanzania organized the shun to protest New Zealand. Apartheid is apartness or separation in Afrikaans, which was then turned into the policy designed to ensure that whites remained in control. -
Cath Freeman
As one of the 11 Aboriginals in the 628 that participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Cathy Freeman was the hope for an image of a modern Australian. She lit the Olympic flame and ran, wearing a skinsuit no less, the 400m final in the time of 49.11 seconds. She was the 100th Australian Olympic Champion and in her victory lap, she carried both the Aboriginal and Australian flag in her arms. -
Korea adjoined
In the 2000 games, both North and South Korea Olympic teams marched at the opening together with the 'flag of unification'. The outlines of the Korean peninsula in blue on a white background, held by Chung Un Soon, a female basketball player from South Korea and a male judo coach, Park Chong Chul, from North Korea.