Satmps on Olympics

The first Olympic Games of the modern era were staged in Athens, Greece from 6 to 15 April 1896. The driving force behind their revival was Pierre de Fredi, Baron de Coubertin, who was born in Paris in 1863. He believed in the Greek athletic ideal of perfection of mind and body, and his energies were devoted to achieving his dream of reintroducing the Olympic Games, which had been staged for more than a thousand years before their prohibition in AD 394.

In 1889 de Courertin was commissioned by the French government to form a universal sports association and he visited other European nations to gather information. He made public his views on 25 November 1892 at the Sorbonne in Paris. These led to the formation of the International Olympic Committe in 1894 and thence to the staging of the Olympic Games., which were opened in Athens on Easter Monday 1896.

VENUES

1896 Athens

1932 Los Angeles

1976 Montreal

1900 Paris

1936 Berlin

1980 Moscow

1904 St Louis

1948 London

1984 Los Angeles

1906 Athens*

1952 Helsinki

1988 Seoul

1908 London

1956 Melbourne

1992 Barcelona

1912 Stockholm

1960 Rome

1996 Atlanta

1920 Antwerp

1964 Tokyo

2000 Sydney

1924 Paris

1968 Mexico City

2004 Athens

1928 Amsterdam

1972 Munich

2008 Beijing
2012 London

* Intercalated Games held in1906 at Athens as the tenth anniversary celebrations of the 1896 Games.

XIX Olympic Games - Mexico City - 1968

SG # 569 (1968), Olympic Games, Mexico City

SG # 570 (1968), Olympic Games, Mexico City

XX Olympic Games - Munich - 1972



History:

Hockey is the oldest known ball and stick game. Records exist of it having been played in Persia in 2000 BC. The name hockey probably derives from the French hocquet, or shepherd’s crook, and refers to the crooked stick which is used to hit a small ball.


The game became more organised late in the 19th century and became an Olympic sport in 1908.Until the 1970s, the game at international level was mainly played on natural grass, but has become an even more exciting and Skilful India dominated the sport for three decades, winning all six Olympic gold medals and 30 consecutive games from 1928 to 1956. The first Balbir Singh, who was followed by four more players of the same name who also played for victorious Indian teams, scored five goals in a 6-1 gold-medal victory over the Netherlands in Helsinki in 1952.



XXI Olympic Games - Montreal - 1976



XXII Olympic Games - Moscow - 1980


XXIII Olympic Games - Los Angeles - 1984


XXIV Olympic Games - Seoul - 1988


XXIV Olympic Games - Barcelona - 1992




XXVI Olympic Games - Atlanta - 1996


XXVII Olympic Games - Sydney - 2000

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