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Facts about the olympics
Tomorrow starts the Olympics one of the biggest events in the world, in beijing 2008. To get to know a little bit more about the history of the olympics i will give you some facts about the medal winners, the places and the stars.
first of all here is a list of where the olympics have been hosted. Hosting:
1896 Athens, Greece
1900 Paris, France
1904 St. Louis, USA
1908 London, UK
1912 Stockholm, Sweden
1920 Antwerp, Belgium
1924 Paris, France
1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands
1932 Los Angeles, USA
1936 Berlin, Germany
1948 London, UK
1952 Helsinki, Finland
1956 Melbourne, Australia
1960 Rome, Italy
1964 Tokyo, Japan
1968 Mexico City, Mexico
1972 Munich, West Germany
1976 Montreal, Canada
1980 Moscow, USSR
1984 Los Angeles, USA
1988 Seoul, South Korea
1992 Barcelona, Spain
1996 Atlanta, USA
2000 Sydney, Australia
2004 Athens, Greece Most Medals by a single contender (male)
Aleksandr Dityatin from the USSR won 8 medal in 1980 in Gymnastics with 3 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze. Most Medals by a single contender (female)
Maria Gorokhovskaya from the USSR 1952 won 7 medal in Gymnastics 2 golds and 5 silver. Most Gold Medals by a single contender (male)
Mark Spitz from the USA won 7 gold medals in Swimming in 1972.
Most Gold Medals by a single contender (female)
Kristin Otto from Germany won 6 gold medals in Swimming in 1988. Top three most gold medal sorted by country.
USA 872 gold medals
USSR (1952-88) 395 gold medals
France 188 gold medals I hope my own country Denmark is gonna take som medals this year about 7 or 8 and im satisfied. We deffintly got a change of winning a medal in handball (men), Shot put (men) and some type of rowing and sailing.
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