Olympic Movement ‧ since 1850

Participants • Sports • Hosts

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historic actores

• William Penny BROOKES ‧ ‧
• Pierre de FREDY, baron de COUBERTIN ‧ 1863-1937 ‧ *
• Evangelis ZAPPAS ‧ ‧
• ‧ initiatives a/o founder PARA-lympics
• Eunice Kennedy SHRIVER ‧ ‧ founder SPECIAL Olympics ‧
• Sir Ludwig GUTTMANN ‧ 1899-1980 ‧ neurologist ‧ founder Stoke Mandeville Games ‧ ‧

the first Internation-Olympic-Commitee-members

• Demetrius VIKELAS ‧ ‧ 1e pres. IOC ‧ ‧

International Society of Olympic Historians

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specifications

• Summer Olympics ‧ since 1896
• Winter Olympics ‧ since 18--
• Paralympics ‧ 'Parallel Olympics' for disabled sporters ‧ since 1960 ‧
• Stoke Mandeville Games ‧ IWAS ‧ World Wheelchair & Amputee Games ‧ 1948-1960 ‧
• Special Olympics ‧ since 1968 ‧ children & adults with intellectual disabilities ‧

CITIES of HOSPITALITY

NEXT & after LONDON

• XXXI : Rio de Janeiro ‧ 2016 ‧ Summer Olympics
• XXX : LONDON 2012 Summer Olympics

Summer Olympics

• 1896 ‧ GRE-Athens ‧
• 1900 ‧ FRA-Paris ‧
• 1902 ‧ GRE-Athens ‧ un-official ‧
• 1904 ‧ USA-St. Louis ‧
• 1906 ‧ Athens-GREece ‧
• 1908 ‧ UK-London ‧
• 1912 : SWE-Stockholm ‧
• 1916 ‧ GER-Berlin : cancelled-WWI ‧
• 1920 ‧ BEL-Antwerp ‧
• 1924 ‧ FRA-Paris ‧
• 1928 ‧ NED-A'dam ‧
• 1932 ‧ USA-Los Angeles ‧
• 1936 ‧ GER-Berlin ‧
• 1940 ‧ JAP-Tokyo : switched to Helsinki-FIN : cancelled-WWII ‧
• 1944 ‧ UK-London : cancelled-WWII ‧
• 1948 ‧ UK-London ‧
• 1952 ‧ FIN-Helsinki ‧
• 1956 ‧ AUS-Melbourne ‧
• 1956 ‧ SWE-Stockholm ‧
• 1960 ‧ ITA-Rome ‧
• 1964 ‧ JAP-Tokyo ‧
• 1968 ‧ Mexico City-MEX ‧
• 1972 ‧ München-GER ‧
• 1976 ‧ Montreal-CAN ‧
• 1980 ‧ Moscow-Soviet-UNion ‧
• 1984 ‧ Los Angeles-US ‧
• 1988 ‧ Seoul-South-KOR ‧
• 1992 ‧ Barcelona-SPAin ‧
• 1996 ‧ Atlanta-US ‧
• 2000 ‧ Sydney-AUS ‧
• 2004 ‧ Athens-GREece ‧
• 2008 ‧ Beijing-CHIna ‧
• 2012 ‧ UK-London ‧

Winter Olympics

• 1924 ‧ Chamonix-FRA *
• 1928 ‧ St. Moritz-SWItzerland
• 1932 ‧ Lake Placid-US
• 1936 ‧ Garmisch-Partenkirchen-GER
• 1940 ‧ St.Moritz-SWItzerland : cancelled-WWII
• 1944 ‧ Cortina d'Ampezzo-ITA : cancelled-WWII
• 1948 ‧ St. Moritz-SWItzerland
• 1952 ‧ Oslo-NORway
• 1956 ‧ Cortina d'Ampezzo-ITA
• 1960 ‧ Squaw Valley-USA
• 1964 ‧ Innsbruck- AUStria
• 1968 ‧ Grenoble-FRA
• 1972 ‧ Sapporo-JAP
• 1976 ‧ Innsbruck-AUS-tria
• 1980 ‧ Lake Placid-USA
• 1984 ‧ Sarajevo-YUGoslavia-until-1988
• 1988 ‧ Calgary-CAN
• 1992 ‧ Albertville-FRA
• 1994 ‧ Lillehammer-NOR-way
• 1998 ‧ Nagano-JAP
• 2002 ‧ Salt Lake City-USA
• 2006 ‧ Torino-Italy
• 2010 ‧ Vancouver-CAN
• 2014 ‧ Sochi-RUS ‧

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

• HOSTS-cities edited with Organisation-Year & Olympics-type ‧
• Continents : AFRica ‧ ASIa Pacific ‧ East Asia ‧ EURope Eurasia ‧ Latin AMErica ‧ Middle East ‧ North Africa ‧ North AMerica ‧
• COUNTRY : see also linked national geni-projects ‧ Capital a/o Host-City ‧ Continent ‧

▢

♦A♦

▢ AFG:Afghanistan ‧ ‧ ▢ ALB:Albania ‧ ‧ ▢ ALG:Algeria ‧ ‧ ▢ American Samoa ‧ ‧ ▢ AND:Andorra ‧ ‧ ▢ ANG:Angola ‧ ‧ ▢ ANT:Antigua & Barbuda ‧ ‧ ▢ ARG:Argentina ‧ ‧ ▢ ARM:Armenia ‧ ‧ ▢ AUS:Australia ‧ ‧ ▢ AUT:Austria ‧ ‧ ▢ AZE:Azerbaijan ‧ ‧

♦B♦

▢ BAH:Bahamas ‧ ‧ ▢ Bahrain ‧ ‧ ▢ BAN:Bangladesh ‧ ‧ ▢ BAR:Barbados ‧ ‧ ▢ BLR:Belarus ‧ ‧ ▢ BEL:Belgium ‧ Bruxelles~Brussel ‧ ‧ ▢ Belize ‧ ‧ ▢ BEN:Benin ‧ ‧ ▢ BER:Bermuda ‧ ‧ ▢ BHU:Bhutan ‧ ‧ ▢ BOL:Bolivia ‧ ‧ ▢ Bosnia & Herzegovina ‧ ‧ ▢ BOT:Botswana ‧ ‧ ▢ BRA:Brazil ‧ ‧ ▢ British Virgin Islands ‧ ‧ ▢ BUL:Bulgaria ‧ ‧ ▢ BUR:Burkina Faso ‧ ‧ ▢ Burundi ‧ ‧

♦C♦

▢ CAM:Cambodia ‧ ‧ ▢ CMR:Cameroon ‧ ‧ ▢ CAN:Canada ‧ ‧ ▢ Cape Verde ‧ ‧ ▢ Cayman Islands ‧ ‧ ▢ Central African Republic ‧ ‧ ▢ CHA:Chad ‧ ‧ ▢ CHI:CHILE ‧ ‧ ▢ CHI:China ‧ 2008: BEIJING summer ‧ ‧ ▢ Colombia ‧ ‧ ▢ Congo ‧ ‧ ▢ DR Congo ‧ ‧ ▢ COK:Cook Islands ‧ ‧ ▢ Costa Rica ‧ ‧ ▢ Côte d'Ivoire ‧ ‧ ▢ Croatia ‧ ‧ ▢ CUB:Cuba ‧ ‧ ▢ Cyprus ‧ ‧ ▢ Czech Republic ‧ ‧

♦D♦

▢ DEN:Denmark ‧ ‧ ▢ Djibouti ‧ ‧ ▢ Dominica ‧ ‧ ▢ Dominican Republic ‧ ‧

♦E♦

▢ Ecuador ‧ ‧ ▢ Egypt ‧ ‧ ▢ El Salvador ‧ ‧ ▢ Eritrea ‧ ‧ ▢ ESTONIA ‧ ‧ ▢ Ethiopia ‧ ‧

♦F♦

▢ Fiji ‧ ‧ ▢ FIN:Finland ‧ ‧ ▢ FRANCE ‧ 19-# : Paris ‧ summer ‧ ‧

♦G♦

▢ Gabon ‧ ‧ ▢ Gambia ‧ ‧ ▢ Georgia ‧ ‧ ▢ GERMANY ‧ ‧ ▢ Ghana ‧ ‧ ▢ [ Great Britain] ‧ 2012 : LONDON ‧ summer ‧ ▢ [ GREECE] ‧ ‧ ▢ Grenada ‧ ‧ ▢ Guam ‧ ‧ ▢ Guatemala ‧ ‧ ▢ Guinea ‧ ‧ ▢ Guinea-Bissau ‧ ‧ ▢ Guyana ‧ ‧

♦H♦

▢ Haiti ‧ ‧ ▢ Honduras ‧ ‧ ▢ Hong Kong ‧ ‧ ▢ HUN:Hungary ‧ ‧

♦I♦

▢ Iceland ‧ ‧ ▢ India ‧ ‧ ▢ INDONESIA ‧ ‧ ▢ Iran ‧ ‧ ▢ Iraq ‧ ‧ ▢ IRELAND ‧ ‧ ▢ Israel ‧ ‧ ▢ ITALY ‧ ‧

♦J♦

▢ Jamaica ‧ ‧ ▢ Japan ‧ ‧ ▢Jordan ‧ ‧

♦K♦

▢ KAZ:Kazakhstan ‧ ‧ ▢ Kenya ‧ ‧ ▢ North Korea ‧ ‧ ▢ South Korea ‧ ‧ ▢ Kuwait ‧ ‧ ▢ Kyrgyzstan ‧ ‧

♦L♦

▢ LAT:Latvia ‧ ‧ ▢ LIB:Lebanon ‧ ‧ ▢ LES:Lesotho ‧ ‧ ▢ LBR:Liberia ‧ ‧ ▢ LBA:Libya ‧ ‧ ▢ LIE:Liechtenstein ‧ EUR ‧ ▢ LTU:Lithuania ‧ ‧ ▢ LUX:Luxembourg ‧ ‧

♦M♦

▢ Madagascar ‧ ‧ ▢ Malaysia ‧ ‧ ▢ Maldives ‧ ‧ ▢ Mali ‧ ‧ ▢ Malta ‧ ‧ ▢ Mauritius ‧ ‧ ▢ Mexico ‧ ‧ ▢ Moldova ‧ ‧ ▢ Monaco ‧ ‧ ▢ Mongolia ‧ ‧ ▢ Montenegro ‧ ‧ ▢ Morocco ‧ ‧ ▢ Mozambique ‧ ‧ ▢ Myanmar ‧ ‧

♦N♦

▢ Namibia ‧ ‧ ▢ Nauru ‧ ‧ ▢ NLD:Netherlands ‧ summer: AMSTERDAM 19-? ‧ ‧ ▢ NZL: New Zealand ‧ ‧ ▢ Nicaragua ‧ ‧ ▢ Niger ‧ ‧ ▢ Nigeria ‧ ‧ ▢ NOR:Norway ‧ ‧

♦O♦

▢ Oman ‧ ‧

♦P♦

▢ PAK:Pakistan ‧ ‧ ▢ Palau ‧ ‧ ▢ Palestine ‧ ‧ ▢ PAN:Panama ‧ ‧ ▢ PNG:Papua New Guinea ‧ ‧ ▢ PAR:Paraguay ‧ ‧ ▢ PER:Peru ‧ ‧ ▢ PHI:Philippines ‧ ‧ ▢ POL:Poland ‧ ‧ ▢ PORTUGAL ‧ ‧ ▢ PUR:Puerto Rico ‧ ‧

♦Q♦

▢ QAT:Qatar ‧ ‧

♦R♦

▢ ROU:Romania ‧ ‧ ▢ RUS:Russia ‧ ‧ ▢ RWA:Rwanda ‧ ‧

♦S♦

▢ Saint Kitts and Nevis ‧ ‧ ▢ Saint Lucia ‧ ‧ ▢ Samoa ‧ ‧ ▢ San Marino ‧ ‧ ▢ Saudi Arabia ‧ ‧ ▢ Senegal ‧ ‧ ▢ Serbia ‧ ‧ ▢ Seychelles ‧ ‧ ▢ Sierra Leone ‧ ‧ ▢ Singapore ‧ ‧ ▢ Slovakia ‧ ‧ ▢ Slovenia ‧ ‧ ▢ Solomon Islands ‧ ‧ ▢ SOUTH AFRICA ‧ ‧ ▢ SPAIN ‧ ‧ ▢ Sri Lanka ‧ ‧ ▢ Sudan ‧ ‧ ▢ SUR:Suriname ‧ ‧ ▢ Sweden ‧ 1912:STOCKHOLM ‧ 19--: STOCKHOLM ‧ ▢ Switzerland ‧ ‧ ▢ Syria ‧ ‧

♦T♦

▢ Chin. Taipei ‧ ‧ ▢ Tajikistan ‧ ‧ ▢ [http://www.geni.com/projects/index/12047 TAN:Tanzania ‧ ‧ ▢ Thailand ‧ ‧ ▢ Togo ‧ ‧ ▢ Trinidad & Tobago ‧ ‧ ▢ Tunisia ‧ ‧ ▢ Turkey ‧ ‧ ▢ Turkmenistan ‧ ‧

♦U♦

▢ Uganda ‧ ‧ ▢ Ukraine ‧ ‧ ▢ United Arab Emirates ‧ ‧ ▢ USA-United States of America ‧ winter:ATLANTA ‧ ▢ URU:Uruguay ‧ ‧ ▢ Uzbekistan ‧ ‧

♦V♦

▢ Vanuatu ‧ ‧ ▢ Venezuela ‧ ‧ ▢ VIETNAM ‧ ‧ ▢ Virgin Islands ‧ ‧

♦Y♦

▢ Yemen ‧ ‧

♦Z♦

▢ ZAI-Zaire ▢ ZAM:Zambia ‧ ‧ ▢ Zimbabwe ‧ ‧

PARTICIPATING SPORTS

Summer

ARCHERY

• Au chapelet ‧ 50m ‧ ♂ ‧ • Au cordon doré ‧ 33m ‧ ♂ ‧ • Au cordon doré ‧ 50m ‧ ♂ ‧ • Continental Style ‧ ♂ ‧ • Double American Round ♂‧ • Double Colombia Round ♀ ‧ • Double F.I.T.A. Round ‧ ♂ ‧ • Double F.I.T.A. Round ♀ ‧ • Double National Round ♀ ‧ • Double York Round ‧ • Fixed Large Bird Target Team ‧ • Fixed Small Bird Target Team ‧ • Fixed Target~Large Birds ♂ ‧ • Fixed Target~Small Birds ♂ ‧ • ♂ 's Individual ‧ • ♂ 's Team ‧ • Moving Bird Target 28m ♂ ‧ • Moving Bird Target ‧ 33m ♂ ‧ • Moving Bird Target ‧ 50m ♂ ‧ • National Round ♀ ‧ • Sur la perche á la herse ♂ ‧ • Sur la perche á la pyramide ♂ ‧ • Team Competition ‧ 28m ♂ ‧ • Team Competition ‧ 33m ♂ ‧ • Team Competition ‧ 50m ♂ ‧ • Team Round ‧ ♂ ‧ • Team Round ‧ ♀ ‧ • ♀'s Individual ‧ • ♀ 's Team ‧ • York Round ♂ ‧ •

ART CONTESTS ‧ ‧

Badminton ‧ ‧ * Baseball ‧ ‧ * Basketball ‧ ‧ * Boxing ‧ ‧ *

Canoeing ‧ ‧ * Cricket ‧ ‧ * Croquet ‧ ‧ * Cycling ‧ ‧ *

Diving ‧ ‧

Equestrian ‧ ‧

Fencing ‧ ‧

Golf ‧ ‧ * Gymnastics ‧ ‧ *

Handball ‧ ‧ * Hockey ‧ ‧ *

Jeu de Paume ‧ ‧ * Judo ‧ ‧ *

Lacrosse ‧ ‧ *

Modern Pentathlon ‧ ‧ * Motor Boating ‧ ‧ *

Pelota Basque ‧ ‧ * Polo ‧ ‧ *

Rackets ‧ ‧ * Rowing ‧ ‧ * Rugby ‧ ‧ *

Sailing ‧ ‧ * Shooting ‧ ‧ * Soccer ‧ ‧ * Softball ‧ ‧

Swimming ‧ ‧

Synchronised Swimming

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Table Tennis ‧ ‧ * Taekwondo ‧ ‧ * Tennis ‧ ‧ * Track & Field ‧ ‧ * Triathlon ‧ ‧ * Tug Of War ‧ ‧ *

Volleyball ‧ ‧ *

Water Polo ‧ ‧ * Weightlifting ‧ ‧ * Wrestling ‧ ‧ *

WINTER

• Alpine Skiing ‧ ‧ * Biathlon ‧ ‧ * Bobsleigh ‧ ‧ * Curling ‧ ‧ * Figure Skating ‧ ‧ * Ice Hockey ‧ ‧ * Lugeing ‧ ‧ * Nordic Skiing ‧ ‧

Speed Skating

• —A— • * AUS‧Australia‎ • * Austria • • —B— • * Belarus‎ • * Belgium‎ • * British Virgin Islands‎ • • —C— • * Canada‎ • * China‎ • * Czech Republic‎ • • —D— • * Denmark‎ • • —E— • * Estonia‎ • • —F— • * Finland‎ • * France‎ • • —G— • * -East- Germany‎ • * Germany‎ • * United Team of Germany‎ • * West Germany‎ • * Great Britain‎ • • —H— • * Hong Kong‎ • * Hungary‎ • • —I— • * Italy‎ • • —J— • * Japan‎ • • —K— • * Kazakhstan‎ • • —L— • * Latvia‎ • • —N— • * NL-Netherlands‎ • * New Zealand‎ • * North Korea‎ • * Norway‎ • • —P— • * Poland‎ • • —R— • • * Romania‎ • * Russia‎ • • —S— • • * South Korea‎ • * Soviet Union‎ • * Sweden‎ • * Switzerland‎ • • —U— • • * Ukraine‎ • * Unified Team‎ • * USA-United States‎ • ‧ ‧ * • —V• W• X• Y• Z— •