Summer Games

Athens, Greece. The first modern Olympic Games, 241 athletes from 14 nations...

Paris, France. First Games with women athletes, folded into the 1900 World Exposition...

St Louis, USA. First Games in the Americas, remembered for a chaotic marathon...

London, UK. The Games that fixed the marathon distance at 26 miles 385 yards...

Stockholm, Sweden. Jim Thorpe won two titles as electronic timing debuted...

Antwerp, Belgium. First Games after World War One, with the Olympic flag and oath debut...

Paris, France. The motto Citius Altius Fortius was adopted and 44 nations attended...

Amsterdam, Netherlands. Women entered track and field as a flame burned for the first time...

Los Angeles, USA. Depression era Games that built the first Olympic Village...

Berlin, Germany. Jesse Owens won four golds as the torch relay and television arrived...

London, UK. The Austerity Games, staged with rationed materials and no new venues...

Helsinki, Finland. The USSR appeared for the first time as Zatopek won his unique triple...

Melbourne, Australia. First Games in the Southern Hemisphere, with equestrian in Stockholm...

Rome, Italy. Cassius Clay won gold as Bikila ran the marathon barefoot...

Tokyo, Japan. First Games in Asia, beamed worldwide by satellite...

Mexico City, Mexico. Altitude records and the Black Power salute at the first Latin American Games...

Munich, West Germany. Mark Spitz won seven golds amid the terror attack tragedy...

Montreal, Canada. Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic history...

Moscow, USSR. The United States led a boycott of dozens of nations over Afghanistan...

Los Angeles, USA. The privately financed Games that profited about 223 million dollars...

Seoul, South Korea. The Ben Johnson doping scandal transformed anti doping...

Barcelona, Spain. The Dream Team played as a boycott free world gathered...

Atlanta, USA. The centennial Games, where Muhammad Ali lit the cauldron...

Sydney, Australia. Cathy Freeman lit the flame and won 400 meters gold...

Athens, Greece. The Games returned to their birthplace after 108 years...

Beijing, China. Phelps won eight golds as Bolt announced himself with two world records...

London, UK. London became the first city to host three Summer Games...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. First Games in South America, with a Refugee Team marching...

Tokyo, Japan. The first Games postponed, staged in 2021 without spectators...

Paris, France. Opening ceremony on the Seine and full gender parity for the first time...

Stockholm, Sweden. The equestrian half of Melbourne, held five months earlier...