summer olympics timeline

By colton martin

  • Summer olympics begin

    located in Athens, Greece the united states had the most gold medals with 11 golds.

  • first summer olympics held in the U.S.

    The 1904 Summer Olympics was thje first summer olympics held in the united states abd it was held in St. Louis, Missouri

  • summer olympics cancelled #1

    this was the first year the summer olympics were canceled- 1916

  • olympics canceled #2

    this was the second year the summer olympics were canceled- 1940

  • summer olympics canceled #3

    this was the third year the summer olympics were canceled- 1944

  • Barcelona summer olympics

    Baseball had appeared as an exhibition sport at six Olympic Games in the past but it finally finally achieved medal status.

  • Atlanta summer olympics

    It was the most recent summer olympic games that has been held in the united states.

  • sydney summer olympics

    Triathlon and taekwondo were two new sports added to the Olympcs

  • Athens summer olympics

    Michael Phelps broke the most medals won in a single games with 8 medals.

  • Beijing summer olympics

    The women’s 800m swimming record had been held by Janet Evans from the united states team for 20 years. Rebecca Adlington from the great britian team broke the record.

  • London summer olympics

    the JamaIcan team had a sweep in the 200 meter sprint

  • Rio summer olympics

    the united states olympic team won 47 olympic gold medals.