Olympic Games By Cairon and Patrick

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  • Jan 1, 776

    BC Start of Olympics

    Athletic contests are held at Olympia every four years, between August 6 and September 19. Records reach back as far as 776 B.C., but it is generally accepted that the Olympic Games had already been held for several centuries before that.
  • Period: Jan 1, 776 to

    Olympic Games

  • First modern olympics

    The first modern Olympic Games. 14 countries are represented by about 245 men, competing in 43 events.
    No women participated, as de Coubertin feels that their inclusion would be "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and incorrect. (1896)

  • ST. Louis Games

    Only 13 countries show up.
    Fred Lorz rides in a car for eleven miles during the marathon, but is briefly taken as being the winner anyway. (1904) St. Louis Games Only 13 countries show up.
    Fred Lorz rides in a car for eleven miles during the marathon, but is briefly taken as being the winner anyway. (1904)

  • Londen Games

    Londen Games
    1908
    London Games
    The 1906 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius requires the Games to move from Rome to London. For the first time, athletes march into the stadium behind their nations' flags. There are more than 2,000 competitors in more than 100 events. •Italian Dorando Pietri needs to be helped across the finish line of the marathon, but is declared the winner before being disqualified in favor of Johnny Hayes of the U.S

  • Jim Thorpe

    American Jim Thorpe dominates the Games, taking the gold in the pentathlon and decathlon(1912).

  • Thorpes medals gone

    Thorpes medals gone
    1913
    Jim Thorpe's medals are taken away, when people discovered that he was paid $25 a week for playing baseball in 1909 and 1910. The Olympics are strictly limited to amateur players

  • WW1

    WW1
    Games cancelled due to World War I. (1916)

  • Olympic Flag

    Olympic Flag
    The Olympic flag is introduced, as is the Olympic oath.
    Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey are not invited, they were enemies in the War. (1920)

  • Chamonix Winter Games

    Chamonix Winter Games
    The "International Winter Sports Week" takes place in Chamonix, and is dominated by the Scandinavians Two years later, this is retroactively given the status of the first Olympic Winter Games.(1924)

  • WW2

    1940,1944 the games were called off, because of WW2

  • AD Romen Emperor Theodosius

    AD Romen Emperor Theodosius
    Roman Emperor Theodosius I abolishes the Games, as part of a series of reforms against pagan practices.