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The modern Olympic Games ( OG; or Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques, JO) [ a][ 1] are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...
v. t. e. The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.
This is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.
Here’s a look at other times in modern Summer Olympics history where war and political unrest played out as the world’s greatest athletes took center stage, and how it impacted the Games:
The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896. It was the first Olympic Games held in the modern era. About 100,000 people attended for the opening of the games.
It’s the first time in modern Olympics history the ceremony will unfold outside of a stadium. Opening Ceremony - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 0 (Lars Baron / Getty Images)
On 16 October 2023, the IOC approved the addition of five optional sports for the 2028 Summer Olympics: baseball / softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash, while breakdancing was dropped. [ 40] Cricket's only previous Olympic appearance was in 1900, while lacrosse was last on the Olympic program in 1908.
Athletics records in the Summer Olympic Games have been recorded since 1896. The modern Summer Olympic Games have been held every four years since the first Games in 1896 (except 1916 due to the First World War, 1940 and 1944 due to the Second World War, and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and Olympic records are recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in each event.