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It also marked the 100th anniversary of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games. These were also the first Summer Olympics to be held in a different year than the Winter Olympics since the same time practice commenced in 1924, as part of a new IOC practice implemented in 1994 to hold the Summer and ...
Japanese athletes have won 542 medals at the Summer Olympic Games (except art competitions), with the most gold medals won in judo, gymnastics, wrestling, and swimming, as of the end of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan has also won 76 medals at the Winter Olympic Games. Its most successful Olympics is the 2020 Games hosted in Tokyo.
100th Anniversary of the foundation of Bulgarian State Railways; 100th Anniversary of Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Studios. 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey; 100th Anniversary of the Flying Scotsman; 100th Anniversary of Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 2024 Summer Olympics, 100th anniversary of the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Hatsuko Morioka (守岡 初子, Morioka Hatsuko, June 22, 1915 – ?) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. [2] She participated in two Olympic Games with Hideko Maehata, both of whom were from the same area, [1] and Moriaka competed the individual 400 m and 4 × 100 m relay events at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics [3] with the best result of fifth place in the relay in 1932.
Japanese Olympics may refer to: Japan at the Olympics; 1940 Summer Olympics, awarded to Tokyo, moved to Helsinki first, then cancelled due to World War II; 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan; 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan; 1998 Winter Olympics, held in Nagano, Japan; Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
Five cities and regions have been chosen by the IOC to host upcoming Olympic Games: the 2026 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games officially shared between two host cities (Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo); Los Angeles for the 2028 Summer Olympics; the 2030 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games to be hosted by a region (the ...
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature 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 ...
The development plan for the coastal area, which began to be considered in 1983 as a project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Osaka municipal organization (1989 is the 100th anniversary of the municipal organization), was formulated as the "Technoport Osaka" [2] concept. In this concept, it was planned to develop cultural recreation ...