Summer Olympic Games

By lavi08

  • place, date, and which country won the most gold medals

    The first olympic summer games were held in Athens, Greece in April 6th, 1896 and U.S.A. won the most gold medals.

  • First summer Olympics

    The first summer olympics began in 1896.

  • When U.S. hosted the Olympics and where

    The U.S.A. hosted the olympics in July 1st, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri.

  • When the games were cancelled

    The olympic summer games were cancelled in 1916 due to World War one.

  • when the games were cancelled again

    The olympic summer games were the cancelled again in 1940 and 1944 due to World War two.

  • 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain

    Michael Marsh got gold in the 200 meter dash.

  • 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia

    Derrick Adkins got gold in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 47.54 seconds.

  • 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia

    There were 333 male and 253 female athletes.

  • 2004 Olympics in Athens. Greece

    There were 10625 athletes that participated.

  • 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China

    This was the last time baseball and softball was played in the Olympics and they scraped it off of the 2012 London Olympics.

  • 2012 Olympics in London

    Katie Ledecky was the youngest athlete in the olympics, she was a 15 year old swimmer.

  • 2016 Rio Olympics

    Michael Phelps retired with 22 gold medals.