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 Lightweight – Katie Taylor (Ireland)
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 Women’s flyweight – Nicola Adams
 Several judges and referees were removed following a series of controversial decisions

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 '''2032 Brisbane'''
 Without any rival bid, Brisbane was confirmed as host of the 2032 Summer Olympics at the 138th IOC Session on 21 July 2021 in Tokyo
 == Olympics trivia ==
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 Princess Anne became President of the BOA in 1983. She was the only female competitor not required to have a sex test at the 1976 Olympics
 National anthem of Greece is always played at closing ceremony of Olympics
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 American IOC member Ernst Jahncke called for the 1936 Olympics to be taken away from Berlin and urged American athletes to boycott the Games if they were held in Nazi Germany. The president of the USA Olympic Committee, Avery Brundage, spoke in favour of the Berlin Games. In July 1936, the IOC expelled Jahncke and replaced him with Brundage
 After the 1988 Games, the IOC voted to declare all professionals eligible for the Olympics, subject to the approval of the international federations in charge of each sport. Boxing continues to forbid professionals, while football has agreed to allow each nation to include three professionals in addition to the professionals under the age of 23, against whom there is no prohibition
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 Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years to take place in the same city as the Olympic Games
-Zambia declared its independence on the day of the closing ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first country ever to have entered an Olympic Games as one country (Northern Rhodesia), and left it as another
+Zambia declared its independence on the day of the closing ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first country ever to have entered an Olympic Games as one country (Northern Rhodesia), and left it as another. They carried different flags at the opening and closing ceremonies

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 First ever Olympic medal for Turkmenistan
-Women’s 87+kg. Silver – Emily Campbell
+Women’s 87+kg. Silver – Emily Campbell. First British woman to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting
 Lauren Hubbard was the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. She represented New Zealand in the +87kg class, but failed with three snatch lifts
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 Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years to take place in the same city as the Olympic Games

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	in 2017, Usain Bolt was stripped of the 4×100m relay gold from the Beijing Games in 2008 because his teammate Nesta Carter was found guilty of a doping violation		in 2017, Usain Bolt was stripped of the 4×100m relay gold from the Beijing Games in 2008 because his teammate Nesta Carter was found guilty of a doping violation
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		+	Dmitri Sautin is a Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver
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		+	Cuba has won 235 Olympic medals, but has never had a competitor at Winter Olympics
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		+	Lindsay Davenport is the only woman to win gold in tennis at home Olympics since reintroduction in 1988
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		+	Hungary is most successful country at Olympics never to have hosted the event, and is the country with the highest number of gold medals won per capita
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		+	Liechtenstein is the only country to have won medals at Winter but not Summer Olympics
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		+	Electronic scoring introduced in Olympic fencing – 1936 (epee), 1956 (foil), 1988 (sabre)
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		+	Five sports have been held at every Olympics – Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Gymnastics, Swimming
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		+	GB, France and Switzerland are the only countries to have attended all summer and winter games
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		+	GB is the only country to have won a gold medal at every modern summer Olympic Games
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		+	German swimmer Franziska van Almsick has the distinction of having the most career Olympic medals, ten, without ever winning a gold medal
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		+	Carl Osburn won 11 medals in shooting
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		+	Modern Pentathlon fencing competition uses the epee
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		+	Boxers must be aged between 18 and 40
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		+	Kakhi Kakhiashvili (Georgian-Greek weightlifter) and Daniel Carroll (Australian-American rugby union player) are the only athletes to have won gold medals for two different countries
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		+	Percy Legard was he first British athlete to compete in Summer and Winter Olympics, competing in the 1936 Modern Pentathlon and Nordic Combined events
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		+	Diana Taurasi has won five gold medals for USA in basketball (2004 – 2020)
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		+	Svetlana Romashina has won seven gold medals for Russia in synchronized swimming
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		+	Pal Szerkeres is a retired Hungarian foil and sabre fencer. He has the distinction of being the first person to have won medals at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games
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		+	1988 Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years to take place in the same city as the Olympic Games

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 Marathon – Sammy Wanjiru (Kenya)
 High jump – Andrey Silnov (Russia). Silver – Germaine Mason
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 Women’s marathon – Constantina Dita-Tomescu (Romania)
 Women’s high jump – Tia Hellebaut (Belgium). Silver – Blanka Vlasic
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 Mark Cavendish was the only GB track cyclist to return from Beijing without a medal
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 Ara Abrahamian of Sweden originally won one of the two bronze medals in the 84 kg Greco-Roman wrestling weight class but was disqualified by the IOC after he stepped off the podium and dropped his medal in the centre of the mat to protest the officiating
-BMX – Men’s - Maris Strombergs (Latvia), Women's - Anne-Caroline Chausson (France)
+Matthew Mitcham (Australia) was the only non-Chinese winner of a diving event. He was the first openly gay athlete to win an Olympic gold medal
 == 2012 London ==
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 GB won 12 cycling medals (8 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze). No other nation won more than one gold medal
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 x 100m relay – Jamaica (Powell, Blake, Ashmeade, Bolt). Bolt completes ‘triple triple’ of three sprint gold medals in last three Olympics
-x 400m relay – USA
+x 400m relay – USA. 4<sup>th</sup> Belgium, including the Borlee brothers Jonathan, Kevin and Dylan
 GB controversially disqualified from heat of 4 x 400m relay
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 Michael Phelps won five gold medals and one silver medal, taking his tally to 23 gold medals, and 28 medals in total
-Women’s 100m freestyle – Simone Manuel (USA) and Peny Oleksiak (Canada) tie for gold medal. Manuel was the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming
+Women’s 100m freestyle – Simone Manuel (USA) and Penny Oleksiak (Canada) tie for gold medal. Manuel was the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming
 Women’s 200m freestyle – Katie Ledecky
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 All 11 members of GB’s track cycling team won a medal
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 Nacra 17 was the only mixed sailing competition
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 K2 canoe 200m sprint. Silver – GB (Liam Heath and Jon Schofield)
 Men’s heavyweight judo – Teddy Riner (France)
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 Trampoline. Bronze – Bryony Page

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 Roque was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing croquet from the previous games
 '''1906 Athens'''
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 Women’s archery National Round – Sybil ‘Queenie’ Newell (GB). Silver – Lottie Dod
-Newell is the oldest female medalist in Olympic history, aged 53
+Sybil Newell is the oldest female medalist in Olympic history, aged 53
 Archers Willy and Lottie Dod (GB) became the first brother and sister medalists in Olympic history
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 Jeu de Palme (Real Tennis) contested for the only time. Won by Jay Gould (USA)
 == 1912 Stockholm ==
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 England deliberately missed a penalty against Finland in semi-final as the team thought the decision of the referee too harsh
 '''1916 Berlin'''
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 Ilona Elek (Hungary) was was the first woman to win two Olympic gold medals in the individual foil competition, in 1936 and 1948. Won silver in same event in 1952
 '''1940 Tokyo; Helsinki'''
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 Tommy Kono (USA) won a weightlifting gold medal at both the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games, and a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics
 == 1956 Melbourne ==
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 Boris Shakhlin won four gymnastics gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal to add to the two gold medals he had won in 1956
 == 1964 Tokyo ==
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 Epee. Silver – Bill Hoskyns. The last individual fencing medal won by GB
 == 1968 Mexico City ==
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 Super heavyweight – Vassily Alekseyev. Retained the title in 1976
 == 1976 Montreal ==
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 Double sculls. Silver – GB (Mike Hart and Chris Bailliau)
 == 1980 Moscow ==
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 m. Silver – Mike McLeod
 Marathon – Carlos Lopes (Portugal). Silver – John Treacy (Ireland). Bronze – Charlie Spedding. Lopes was hit by a car two weeks before the Olympics
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 Paul Elvstrom and his daughter Trine finished fourth in the Tornado class
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 For the first time, professionals were allowed in the football tournament, as long as they had not played in the World Cup. France beat Brazil in the final, watched by 101,799 spectators at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena
 == 1988 Seoul ==
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 Janet Evans (USA) won three gold medals (400m freestyle, 800m freestyle, 400m individual medley) and also won the 800m freestyle in 1992
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 Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary) won three gold medals (100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 400m individual medley)
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 Individual pursuit – Chris Boardman, riding a bike designed by Mike Burrows and built by Lotus. Silver – Jens Lehmann (Germany)
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 Women’s 5000m held for the first time. 5<sup>th</sup> Paula Radcliffe
 Women’s high jump – Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria)
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 Super Heavyweight – Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine). Silver – Paea Wolfgramm from Tonga, who became the smallest nation to win a medal in the Summer Olympics
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 Women’s 10000m – Derarta Tulu. 4<sup>th</sup> Radcliffe
-Women’s 400m hurdles – Irina Privalova. Won 100m bronze in 1992
+Women’s 400m hurdles – Irina Privalova, who won 100m bronze medal in 1992. Silver – Deon Hemmings
 Women’s 4 x 100m relay – Bahamas