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Germany has hosted three Olympic Games, in 1936 both the Winter and Summer Games, and the 1972 Summer Olympics. In addition, Germany had been selected to host the 1916 Summer Olympics as well as the 1940 Winter Olympics, both of which had to be cancelled due to World Wars. After these wars, Germany was banned from participating in the 1920 ...
Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
The 21-year-old, 1.84-metre-tall (6'½") Long had finished third in the 1934 European Championships in Athletics with 7.25 metres (23'9½"). By the summer of 1936, Long held the European record in the long jump and was eager to compete for the first time against Jesse Owens, the American world-record holder.
India got bronze in men's field hockey for a second consecutive Olympics after beating Spain 2-1 earlier Thursday. Before Tokyo in 2021, India had not won a medal in the sport since 1980 — the ...
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports . [ 2 ]
4 London 1908: Olympic Games In London: 1908 British Pathé [12] [13] Film ID:1824.12 5 Stockholm 1912: The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912: 1912 Adrian Wood [14] 7 Antwerp 1920: Olympiade in Antwerpen: 1920 [15] 8 Paris 1924: The Olympic Games in Paris, 1924: 1924 Jean de Rovéra [14] 9 Amsterdam 1928: The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 ...
The sprint canoeists were officially named as part of the nation's third batch of nominated athletes on 15 June 2021, with the reigning champion Sebastian Brendel adding more golds to his canoe sprint career in his third Olympics and four-time medalist Ronald Rauhe leading the squad to his remarkable sixth Games.
1 August — The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the first ever Olympic torch relay. [3] It is also the first occasion in world history when a sporting event is given television coverage. The first German volunteers on the nationalist side of the Spanish civil war leave for Spain. [4]