Louis 1904 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in St. Louis, Mo., U.S., that took place July 1–Nov.
Telenor. The next Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, New York, United States was the first to be hosted outside of Europe.
Olympic Games hosted in the United States
- St.
- Lake Placid, NY — 1932 and 1980 Winter Games?
- Los Angeles, CA — 1932 and 1984 Summer Games (also chosen to host 2028 Summer Olympics)
- Squaw Valley, CA — 1960 Winter Games.
- Atlanta, GA — 1996 Summer Games.
- Salt Lake City, UT — 2002 Winter Games.
- Montreal, QC — 1976 Summer Games.
Summer Olympics
| Rank | Team | Gold |
|---|
| 1 | United States | 1,022 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 440 |
| 3 | Germany | 275 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 263 |
Many countries are very
good at this or that
Olympic sport. Russia has a reputation for weightlifting. The United States, swimming. South Korea is impeccable in archery.
Highest percentage of gold medals.
| Country | Sport | Gold medals |
|---|
| China | Table Tennis | 85.7% |
| USA | Basketball | 78.6 |
| USA | Softball | 75.0 |
| China | Diving | 72.7 |
Many countries reward medalists with bonus money. U.S. Olympians, for example, will earn $37,500 for each gold medal they win this year, $22,500 for each silver and $15,000 for each bronze. In team sports, each team member splits the pot evenly. Silver medalists earn a cool $500,000 and bronze medalists get $250,000.
Each Olympic gold medal is made up of 210g of silver and is coated with 6g of 24 carat gold. The bronze medals are made of copper, zinc, tin, and a very small amount of silver.
Other than Bangladesh, war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and Myanmar, until recently cut off from the wider world by its dictatorial government, are the other countries in the top 40 of the population rankings never to have won an Olympic medal, summer or winter.
As Rio de Janeiro, Brazil welcomes the world to its door, here's a look at some of the most memorable
Olympic Games of all time.
10 Greatest Summer Olympic Games
- Atlanta, USA – 1996.
- Athens, Greece – 2004.
- Barcelona, Spain – 1992.
- Los Angeles, USA – 1984.
- Moscow, USSR – 1980.
- Sydney, Australia – 2000.
- Rome, Italy – 1960.
America's Olympic medalists must pay state and federal taxes on the prize money they get for winning. The U.S. Olympic Committee awards $25,000 for gold medals, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze.
The International Olympic Committee doesn't give prize money, but many countries reward their medalists with a bonus. U.S. Olympians, for example, earned $37,500 for each gold medal won this year, $22,500 for each silver and $15,000 for each bronze. In team sports, each team member splits the pot evenly.
Combining that with poor food habits, inept coaching, terrible rehab facilities, increasing competition in schools, shortage of exercise with physical education, long commutes from work and a lack of awareness of many Olympic sports results in many talents getting wasted.
With
306 sets of medals, the games featured
28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009.
2016 Summer Olympics.
| Motto | A new world (Portuguese: Um mundo novo) |
| Nations | 207 |
| Athletes | 11,238 |
| Events | 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) |
| Summer |
|---|
On 7 August 2016, the International Paralympic Committee announced that it had voted unanimously to ban the entire Russian Paralympic team from competing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in the wake of a larger scandal that exposed the participation of Russian Olympic and Paralympic athletes in a state-sponsored doping
Here are two lists, ranking athletes by the most number of medals, and also by gold medals won (including 2016 results). You can see below that the clear winner is Michael Phelps with the most Olympic golds and most medals in total.
Great Britain have set an Olympic record by winning 67 medals at the Rio 2016 Games, two more than they managed at London 2012.
Rio Olympics 2016: Team GB beat China to finish second in medal table
| Rio 2016 medal table top three |
|---|
| Gold | Total |
| USA | 46 | 121 |
| Great Britain | 27 | 67 |
| China | 26 | 70 |
