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The First Summer Olympics
the first summer Olympics were held at Athens, Greece. Athletes from 14 different countries participated.The Us took home the most gold medals (11), then followed Greece with 10 gold medals, and third place was Germany (6) -
Held In America
The United States holds the Olympics in 1904 in St. Louis. -
Cancel #1
The 1916 summer Olympics was supposed to take place at Berlin Germany were canceled due to WW I -
Cancel #2
1940 Summer Olympics were supposed to be held in Helsinki but was canceled due to WWII. -
Cancel #3
The 1944 Summer Olympics were supposed to be held in London but was also canceled due to WWII -
Boycotted!
Russia Boycotts the Olympics in 1980. -
Barcelona, Spain 1992
The 1992 Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics. -
Atlanta, United States 1996
Atlanta became the fifth American city to hold Olympics and as well the third to hold a summer Olympics. -
Sydney, Austrailia 2000
Sydney was selected to hold the games in 1993 -
Athens, Greece 2004
Marks of the return of the games to the city where they began. -
Beijing, China 2008
There were 43 world records and 132 Olympic records made during the games. -
London, United Kingdom 2012
London is the first and only to host the modern Olympics three times having previously done in 1908 and 1948 -
2016
Rio became the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics.
