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Pre-2000 Olympics
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| 1896 Summer Games (Athens Greece) | The first edition of the modern Olympics was the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France; winners were awarded silver medals. Some of the stranger events included one-handed weightlifting and 100-meter freestyle swimming for members of the this |
| 1912 Summer Games (Stockholm, Sweden) | While this host nation introduced electronic timers to the games, the athletic hero was United States decathlete and Native American Jim Thorpe. He won the pentathlon, placed fourth in the high jump, and seventh in the long jump. Finally, Thorpe went on t |
| 1936 Summer Games (Berlin, Germany) | These games are best remembered for Alabama native Jesse Owens’ amazing work on the track against a backdrop of the host nation's political propaganda emphasizing the host nation's racial superiority. The American athlete won the 100-meter dash, 200-mete |
| 1968 Summer Games (Mexico City, Mexico) | In addition to being the first Olympics to be held at high altitude, these Games saw U.S. long jumper Bob Beamon set a record of 8.90 meters that would remain untouched for 23 years. The Games ended on a controversial note: to protest the host nation's go |
| 1972 Summer Games (Munich, West Germany) | One of the most tragic Olympics ever, these Games saw the kidnapping and killing of eleven Israeli athletes by eight Palestinian terrorists, five of whom were shot dead by the host nation's police. Jim McKay of ABC Sports remained on the air for hours, br |
| 1980 Winter Games (Lake Placid, New York, USA) | In an Olympics where a single man — American speed skater Eric Heiden — would win five gold medals and not be the biggest story, something very special had to happen. In what would become known as “The Miracle on Ice,” the U.S. Olympic hockey team — led b |
| 1980 Summer (Moscow, Soviet Union) | Despite the glow from the Lake Placid Games, these Games were marred by a United States boycott ordered by President Jimmy Carter in response to the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the host nation. This lead was followed by Canada, West Germany, Japan, K |
| 1984 Summer Games (Los Angeles, California, USA) | Virtually every Communist nation skipped these games, leaving the door open for (the host nation's) "all the way” feeling, as the host nation took home 83 gold medals out of a total of 174. Among the highlights were sprinter Carl Lewis’ repeat of Jesse O |
| 1994 Winter Games (Lillehammer, Norway) | Massachusetts native Nancy Kerrigan and Oregonian Tonya Harding were among America’s leading hopes for gold in women’s figure skating. During the Olympic Trials in Detroit, Kerrigan was viciously attacked by an unknown assailant, who would later be traced |
| 1996 Summer Games (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) | In what have been called “The Coke Games,” due to their exceptional commercialization in the city of the games, the sweltering heat and organizational problems made these Games a veritable nightmare. But a bombing in Centennial Olympic Park that killed on |
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