Olympic posters

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Olympic posters and emblems
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1896 Athens

• No official poster was made for the 1896 Olympic
  Games, but the cover page of the official report
  is often used to refer to the Games of the
• I Olympiad.

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1900 - Paris

• During the 1900 Universal Exhibition, certain
  events of international physical exercise and
  sports competitions were recognized as Olympic.

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• The poster shows a view of the host city,
  enhanced by the use of a "fish's eye" effect. It
  is the reproduction of the cover of the program
  of the Games.

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• The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to
  Rome, but were reassigned to London.

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• The nudity of the athletes was a reference to the
  Games of Antiquity, although it was judged as too
  "daring" by some managers and not distributed in
  some countries.

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• The 1916 Olympics were scheduled to be held in
  Berlin, but were canceled because of what came to
  be known as World War I. The 1920 Games were
  awarded to Antwerp to honor the suffering that
  had been inflicted on the Belgian people during
  the war.

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• At the 1924 Paris Games, the Olympic motto,
  "Citius, Altius, Fortius", (Swifter, Higher,
  Stronger) was introduced.

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• At the Opening Ceremony, the team from Greece led
  the Parade of Nations and the host Dutch team
  marched in last. Greece first, hosts last would
  become a permanent part of the Olympic protocol.

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• For the first time, the male athletes were housed
  in a single Olympic Village. (The women stayed in
  a luxury hotel).

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• The 1936 Olympics,
• held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf
  Hitlers failed attempt to use them to prove his
  theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it
  turned out, the most popular hero of the Games,
  was the African-American sprinter and long jumper
  Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals.

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• The 1948 London Games were the first to be shown
  on home television, although very few people in
  Great Britain actually owned sets.

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• The most impressive achievement in Helsinki
  belongs to Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, who
  became the only person in Olympic history to win
  the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon at the same
  Olympics.

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• Melbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympics
  by one vote over Buenos Aires. Australian
  quarantine laws were too severe to allow the
  entry of foreign horses, so the equestrian events
  were held separately in Stockholm in June.

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Fifty-four years after Italy had to give up
hosting the Olympics, Rome finally got its
chance.
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The final torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai was born
in Hiroshima the day that the city was
destroyed by an atomic bomb.
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• The 1968 Games also saw the first drug
  disqualification, as a Swedish entrant in the
  modern pentathlon, Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, tested
  positivefor excessive alcohol.

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The 1972 Games were the first to have a named
mascot Waldi, the dachshund.
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• The 1972 Munich Games were supposed to celebrate
  peace and, for the first ten days, all did indeed
  go well. But in the early morning of 5 September,
  eight Palestinian terrorists broke into the
  Olympic Village, killed two members of the
  Israeli team and took nine more hostage. In an
  ensuing battle, all nine Israeli hostages were
  killed. The Olympics were suspended and a
  memorial service was held in the main stadium.

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In Memoriam

• Weightlifters David Berger, 26,
• Joseph Romano, 32,
• Zeev Friedman, 28
• weightlifting instructor Yacob Springer, 51
• wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg ,33
• wrestlers Eliezer Halfin, 28,
• Mark Slavin, 18
• wrestling referee Yosef Gutfreund, 41
• fencing coach Andre Spitzer, 45
• athletics coach Amitzur Shapira, 32,
• marksmanship coach Kehat Schorr, 53,

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• Fourteen-year-old gymnast Nadia Comaneci of
  Romania caused a sensation when, for her
  performance on the uneven bars, she was awarded
  the first-ever perfect score of 10.0

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• U.S.-led boycott reduced the number of
  participating nations to 80, the lowest number
  since 1956.

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• Rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming
  also made their first appearance, as did the
  womens cycling road race.

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• The drug disqualification of sprinter Ben Johnson
  was the biggest story of the 1988 Olympics
• Steffi Graf concluded her Grand Slam tennis
  season by winning Olympic gold.

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• Men's basketball was open to all professionals,
  and the US sent a "Dream Team" that included
  Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.

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• For the first time in Olympic history, all 197
  recognized National Olympic Committees were
  represented at the Games.

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• The Sydney 2000 Games were the largest yet, with
  10,651 athletes competing in 300 events.

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In 2004 the Olympic Games returned to Greece,
the home of both the ancient Olympics and the
first modern Olympics.
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Credit IOC / Olympic Museum Collections Noemi,
August 08