First Time at Olympic Summer - Games
Arts festival, Olympic |
1912 |
Charter, Olympic |
1908 |
Coin, first Olympic |
1952 |
Computer |
1964 |
Congress, Olympic |
1894 |
Doping Test |
1968 |
Doves, white opening ceremony |
1924 |
Electronic timing |
1912 |
Flame, Olympic, in Stadion |
1928 |
Flag, Olympic |
1920 |
Gender testing |
1968 |
Gold-Medal |
1904 |
Hymn, Olympic |
1896 |
Mascot |
1972 |
Marathon distance, first |
1908 |
Motto, Olympic |
1924 |
National anthem at winner ceremony |
1932 |
Oath, Olympic |
1920 |
Oath for Judges, and Official |
1972 |
Olympic Games, First modern |
1896 |
Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony |
1908 |
Photo finish |
1912 |
Photography rights were sold |
1928 |
Professionals |
1984 |
Radio transmissions |
1924 |
Result board |
1928 |
Slow-motion film techniques |
1928 |
Stamps, |
1896 |
Television |
1936 |
Television, live colour pictures |
1968 |
Timing, automatic for track events |
1932 |
Three-tiered victory stand |
1932 |
Torch Relay |
1936 |
Village, Olympic |
1924 |
Website |
1996 |
Winter Games, First Olympic |
1924 |
Winter events, first |
1908 |
Women participate for the first time |
1900 |
1894
1st Olympic Congress : 16 - 24. June 1894 Paris (Founding Congress)
Subject: Study and Diffusion of the Principles of Amateurism and Revival
of the Olympic Games.
Olympic Congresses |
1896 Athens
First Modern Olympic Games held in Athens.
Statistic first games
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The Olympic Hymn of 1896. The text is by Kostis Palamas, the music is
by Spyros Samaras.
It was presented for the first time in the opening ceremony of the
first modern Olympic Games. |
1900 Paris
Women participate for the first time
First female winner: Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in singles tennis. |
1904 St. Louis
In 1904, for the first time, medals were awarded to the first three
people to finish each event--a gold medal for first place, a silver medal
for second, and a bronze medal for third. At the Athens Games 1896 the
winners in each event received silver medals, as there was not enough money
left to mint them in gold. |
1906 Athens
1908 London
Introduction of athletes parading during the opening ceremony behind
their national flags.
First winter events
The Olympic Charter was first adopted
in 1908.
First Marathon distance, 26 miles 385 yards; 42 km 195 m,
For the first time the teams and competitors were representatives of
countries and not of clubs or just individuals.. |
1912 Stockholm
Electronic timing introduced
Photo finish equipment first used in close finish track events.
First known twins to win Olympic Gold (Carlberg brothers, shooting)
Introduction of athlete carrying a sign with the name of the respective
country on it.
First Olympic Arts festival. |
1920 Antwerp
Olympic flag first flown at Games 1920
in Antwerp.
Coubertin represent the flag on the Olympic Congress 1914 in Paris.
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The honour of swearing the first oath fell to the Belgian polo player
an fencer Victor Boin.
The Olympic oath
Defeated in WWI, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and Turkey are
not allowed to participate.
First time of innovation at the Antwerp Games was the releasing of thousands
of
white doves at the opening ceremony as a symbol of peace among nations. |
1924 Paris
In 1924 for the first time, the Games returned to a former venue.
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The Paris Games were the fist to have an Olympic Village for the athletes.
Olympic motto first officially used.
The president of France, Gaston Doumergue, opened the first Games to
adopt the slogan:
"Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Swifter, Higher, Stronger)
It was pronounced for the first time from the Dominican father
Eric Dinon and was
adopted in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games.
1924 - Technology begins to win a place at the Olympic Games with the
event's first live radio broadcast.
First Olympic Winter Games held in St. Moritz. |
1928 Amsterdam
First Olympic Flame to be lit and burned throughout whole Olympic Games
Olympic flame burned at the stadion for the first time ever. The torch
that lit it was brought directly from Olympia overland.
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First introduction of large results board. The objekt of a score board
was to publish the results of the events immediately.
Women allowed to compete in track and field events.
First time Greece led parade of nations.
Slow-motion film techniques used to judge close finishes; women's track
and field competitions held for first time.
The photography rights were sold to a commercial firm. |
1932 Los Angeles
Introduction of three-tiered victory stand.
Kirby Two-Eyed Electric Timing Camera
The stop-watch and photo finish were first used at the Olympic Games
in Los Angeles, California. When officials found it impossible to determine
the winner of the 100 meters race by naked eye and stop watch alone,
newsreel film was analyzed to determine that Eddie Tolan (U.S.) was
the gold medal winner.
First time the national anthem from the winner's country was played
and the
national flag of medallists raised. |
1936 Berlin
The Berlin Games were the first to be televised, with events broadcast
throughout the
Olympic Village, as well as German public halls and theatres. Results
were transmitted
internationally by telex, and newsreel film was rushed abroad via zeppelins.
First runner of the torch relay, Konstantin Kondylis
First Olympic torch relay.
1936 Torch relay
First Olympic Film |
1948 London
Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands is first woman to win 4 gold medals
in a single Games. |
1952 Helsinki
The first Olympic coin was minted to mark the 1952 Olympic Games in
Helsinki, Finland, 500 markka. |
1956 Melbourne
First Games to be held in the Southern Hemisphere (Melbourne)
Athletes entered during the closing ceremony en masse for the first
time to signify the friendship of the Games
Although live television coverage of the Olympic Games was available
internationally for the first time, Europe and the US boycotted the
sale of television rights to the Games. As a result, only six pre-recorded,
half-hour programs were accessible on a few independent channels in the
U.S. |
1960 Rome
First live transmission and first to have world-wide TV coverage
Free of television rights boycotts, the summer Games held later that
year in Rome were the first to be fully televised. |
1964 Tokyo
Time keeping and photo finish officially used.
Opening ceremonies broadcast via satellite to U. S. for first time.
Results were stored on computers for the first time, marking the permanent
pervasion of computer technology into the Olympics Games. |
1968 Mexico City
Gender testing introduced.
First live colour pictures.
First woman to light Olympic flame (Norma Enriqueta Basilio)
First official Olympic mascot (red jaguar)
Fosbury flop first seen.
First doping test. |
1972 Munich
Oath for judges introduced.
In the Games of Munich in 1972, the judges took the following oath,
for the first time: "In
the name of all judges and officials, I promise that we shall officiate
in these Olympic
Games with complete impartiality, respecting and abiding by the rules,
which govern
them, in the spirit of sportsmanship".
First woman oath, Heidi Schüller, Germany |
1976 Montreal
Anabolic steroid testing introduced. |
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles
Professionals allowed to compete in the Games. |
1988 Seoul
Christa Luding-Rothenburger became the first, and only, athlete to
win winter and summer Olympic Games medals in the same year. She competed
in speed skating and cycling. |
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta
1996 - In conjunction with the Games in Atlanta, Georgia, the first-ever
Olympic Games website received 189 million hits. |
2000 Sydney
First time North and South Korea entered the main Olympic stadium as
one nation at the opening ceremony.
Steven Redgrave became the first rower to win gold medals at five consecutive
Olympic Games.
Information technology was key to the running of the Games, and web
hits during the Games in Sydney escalated to 11.3 billion. |
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