- Hungarian Aladar Gerevich won medals in 6 consecutive Olympic games.
- Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10’s seven times at the 1976-Montreal games.
- The first games to be televised were the 1936 Berlin Games.
- Holland’s “Fanny” Blankers-Koen won 4 gold medals in track and field at the 1948 London Games. Fanny was 30 years old and the mother of 2 at the time.
- Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila was the first man to successfully defend the marathon title. (1960 and 1964). He only wore shoes for the second victory.
- More athletes than spectators attended the 1900-Paris Games.
- The idea of an Olympic Flame burning from the start of the games to the closing was first introduced at the 1928 Amsterdam games.
- The first games to be held in the southern hemisphere were the 1956 Melbourne Australia games.
- Ice hockey made its first appearance at the 1920 Antwerp Games.
- American Mildred “Babe” Didriksen won medals in high-jumping, hurdling, and the javelin in 1932-Los Angeles. She is the only athlete to ever medal in all three events.
- Joan Benoit in Los Angeles in 1984 won the first women’s Olympic Marathon.
- Communist China entered its first games in 1984-Los Angeles.
- Emil Zatopek of Chechoslovakia is the only man to win gold metals in the 5000 meters, the 10,000 meters, and the marathon in the same Olympiad.
- The Soviet Union first entered the Olympic Games in 1952-Helsinki.
- Aleksandr Ditiatin of the Soviet Union earned 8 Gold medals in gymnastics at the 1980-Moscow games.
- The first Latin American host for the Olympic games was Mexico City, Mexico in 1968.
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