ICT 21 Summer Olympics timeline project

By Avery_E_K

  • First modern Summer Olympics Held

    The first modern summer Olympics were held in Athens, Greece April 6th 1896.

  • End of 1896 Olympic games

    The USA beat the other participating country's with 11 gold medals.

  • First Olympic Game held in the USA

    The first Olympic game held in the USA was celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri, from July 1, 1904 – November 23, 1904.

  • List of Olympic games cancelled

    The following Olympic games were Cancelled.

    - 1916 Summer Olympics‎
    -1940 Summer Olympics‎
    -1940 Winter Olympics‎
    -1944 Summer Olympics‎
    - 1944 Winter Olympics‎

  • 7 Most recent Olympic Games. 1988 Seoul, South Korea

    Seoul, South Korea. 1988 September 17th - October 1st. For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott of the Summer Olympics. Cuba and Ethiopia stayed away in support of North Korea

  • 7 Most recent Olympic Games. 1992 Barcelona, Spain

    Barcelona, Spain. 1992 July 25th - August 9th. While Germany competed under one flag for the first time since 1964, 12 nations from the former Soviet Union joined forces one last time as the Unified Team.

  • 7 most recent Olympic Games. 1996 Atlanta Georgia

    Atlanta Georgia, USA. 1996, July 19th - August 3. The 1996 Olympic games was at the time by far the largest Olympic Game held, a total of 197 nations competed.

  • 7 Most recent Olympic Games. 2000 Sydney, Australia

    Sydney, Australia. 2000 September 15th - October 1st. There are 165 events for men, 135 for women, and 12 mixed events. Women are excluded from boxing and baseball; men are excluded from synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, and softball.

  • 7 Most recent Olympic Games 2004 Athens, Greece.

    Athens, Greece. 2004, August 13th - August 29th. The finishing point for the marathon, which began in the actual city of Marathon, the staring point of Pheidippides, the Greek soldier who completed the world's first marathon in 490 B.C.

  • 7 Most recent Olympic Games. 2008 Beijing, China

    Beijing, China. 2008 August 8th - August 24th. China was dogged by its human-rights record, a deadly crackdown on Buddhist monks, nearly intolerable air quality, attempts to censor some journalists reporting on the Games, and continued ties to the Sudanese government. These incidents combined to set low expectations for peaceful Games.

  • 7 Most recent Olympic Games. 2012, London, United Kingdom.

    London, United Kingdom. 2012 July 27th - August 12th. The 2012 Games will be the first time in history that women will be competing in all 26 sports.