London is the only city to have host the Olympics three times and Tokyo will join Los Angeles, Paris and Athens as the only cities to welcome the Games twice.
Athens was an unanimous as host city as Greece, the birthplace of Ancient Olympic Games, held the first Olympic Games in modern history in 1896.
Even more bizarrely, car and motorcycle racing were considered Olympic events, as were ballooning and a 200m swimming obstacle race. Unsurprisingly for a nation that fielded over 70 percent of the 997 athletes that took part, France dominated the medal table. The incident was witnessed by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, who attended the event as journalist for the. Four decades later, the British capital hosted the first post-World War II Olympics, with 59 nations represented by 4,104 athletes—the Soviet Union declined the invite—participating in the first Games in 12 years.
Meanwhile, Germany returned to the event for the first time in 16 years after being banned from participating in the 1920 and 1924 Games.If the St. Louis Games were hamstrung by complicated traveling arrangements, the second Olympics on U.S. soil were undermined by the Great Depression, which had severely dented economies in the U.S. and across the world. Only 37 nations were represented at the Games and Herbert Hoover became the second U.S.
German Jewish athletes were either barred of prevented from attending the games and several Jewish athletes from other nations also withdrew. Jesse Owens, the Black U.S. sprinter, was the undisputed star of the Games and won four gold medals but would never defend his title as theU.S. sprinter Jesse Owens competing at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. He won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump and the 4 x 100 meters relay.
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