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List of countries ranked by the number of times they hosted or will host the Olympic Games Total Country Region First Year Last Year Summer Olympics Winter Olympics 10 United States: North America 1904: 2034: 5 (1904, 1932, 1984, 1996, 2028) 5 (1932, 1960, 1980, 2002, 2034) 7 France: Europe 1900: 2030: 3 (1900, 1924, 2024) 4 (1924, 1968, 1992 ...
However some extras workers at the Second Boer War exhibition at the St. Louis World's Fair participated in the St. Louis Olympics as a Boer tug of war team, and as two "Zulu" runners in the marathon. In fact the South African runners were Tswanas and former prisoners of war and were also the first ever Black African runners at the Olympics. [55]
The 2023 Rally Japan (also known as the FORUM8 Rally Japan 2023) was a motor racing event for rally cars held from 16 to 19 November 2023. [2] It marked the eighth running of the Rally Japan , and was the final round of the 2023 World Rally Championship , World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3 .
Used for the unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. [9] EOR Refugee Olympic Team from French Équipe olympique des réfugiés: 2016–2024: Used for the Refugee Olympic Team, for athletes who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016. [10] EUA
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Japan won its first medals in 1920, and its first gold medals in 1928. 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 .
The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games.It was introduced at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as a way for Adolf Hitler to highlight the Nazi claim of Aryan connections of Germany to Greece. [1]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.