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776 BCE
First Olympic ever
The first known Olympics were held in the summer of 776 B.C. at Olympia, a site in southern Greece where people went to worship their gods. In fact, the Olympics were created in honor of ancient Greece’s most famous god: Zeus, king of the gods. Athletes prayed to Zeus for victory and left gifts to thank him for their successes. -
First Olympic Champion for the U.S.
James Connolly won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. -
Women competing
Women first took part in Olympic events at the 1900 Games when out of a total of 997 athletes, 22 were female. -
Charlotte Cooper
Charlotte was the first woman to win a gold metal after women were allowed to compete -
Gold, silver, and bronze olympic medal
The tradition of awarding gold to first place, silver to second, and bronze to third began in St. Louis, the first Olympics held in the United States. -
Times when the Olympics got cancelled
The Games were called off due to World War I (Berlin 1916) and World War II (Tokyo 1940 and London 1944). -
Coca-Cola sponser
They are the longest-running, continuous sponsor of both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. -
Jesse Owens
Hitler did not shake hands with Owens or acknowledge him at any other point during the games because he was colored. After those games other athletes of color were treated more fairly. -
Paralympics
The Paralympics have now become a major event
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Paralympics Started
Dr. Guttmann organised the first competition for wheelchair athletes which he named the Stoke Mandeville Games, a milestone in Paralympic history. -
Civil Rights Protest
At the height of the civil rights movement in the United States, Black American athletes were encouraged to boycott the Games. Instead, African American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith staged a nonviolent protest by raising their fists in a Black Power salute while the national anthem played during their medal ceremony. -
Visa sponsor
Visa has been a committed partner of the Olympic movement since 1986 and proudly signed on as the first global partner of the International Paralympic Committee in 2002. -
Samsung sponsor
Since the WInter Olympic Games in 1998, Samsung has supported the Olympic Games with innovative mobile technology as the official Worldwide Olympic Partner in Wireless Communications Equipment. -
Micheal Phelps
Phelps has earned 23 gold, three silver and 2 bronze medals in his career. He is the most decorated American Olympic athlete in history. Phelps' Olympic career spanned from 2000-2016. -
Michael Phelps breaks record
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Toyota sponser
The Toyota Motor Corp signed on as a worldwide Olympic sponsor in 2015, in an eight-year deal reportedly worth nearly $1 billion. -
Airbnb sponsor
Airbnb has partnered with both the summer and winter olympic games to provide housing for athletes to create a positive economical impact -
Simone Biles
she is the most decorated gymnast in history and is considered by many American sources to be the greatest female gymnast of all time. -
Olympic Winners
The Olympic game winners are determined when the all of the athletes compete in the games with the first place winning a gold metal, second winning silver, and third winning a bronze. Each events finals are different based on the event. -
Target Marketing
They mostly target older people like between 30-45. 160 million people watch the olympics across the NBCUniversal platforms. The olympics are hosted all over the world every four years.
