• No Boston Olympics trio? - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. "The life and death of Boston's Olympic bid". www.boston.com. "No Boston Olympics Organizers...
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    International Olympic Committee to host the 2032 Summer Olympics. South East Queensland considered a bid for 2032 Summer Olympics. Olympic Study for 2032...
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    1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics, serving as an example on how to run an Olympic Games. As...
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  • Angeles was the second city submitted by the USOC for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Boston was originally chosen to be the American bid but withdrew on July 27...
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    since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later, the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. The...
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    at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J. & Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896...
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    Winter Olympics. The Netherlands hosted the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The Netherlands submitted a bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam...
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  • for the Boston Bruins from 1940 to 1952 Detroit Olympics, a minor league hockey team in Detroit, Michigan, from 1927 to 1936 McKeesport Olympics, a professional...
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    The 1928 Summer Olympics (Dutch: Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (Dutch: Spelen van de IXe Olympiade), was an international...
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  • the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They automatically qualified for the Olympics by winning the FIBA Basketball World...
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    Summer Olympics were awarded to Tokyo on 7 September 2013, the 2022 Winter Olympics were awarded to Beijing on 31 July 2015, the 2024 Summer Olympics and...
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    marathon, as well as its first ever gold medal at the Olympics. His time of 2:09:21 was the Olympic record for the next 24 years. Ireland also won its first...
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    The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards...
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    the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11, taking place throughout the United States. It was the first Olympic soccer competition...
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    on May 27, 1961. Boston qualified for the Summer Olympics in Rome, where he won the gold medal in the long jump, setting the Olympic record at 8.12 m...
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    Desiree Linden (category Boston Marathon female winners)
    United States in the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics women's marathon. In 2018, she won the Boston Marathon, becoming the first...
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    "Champions | Boston Athletic Association". www.baa.org. Retrieved 14 July 2023. General International Olympic Committee results database De Wael, Herman...
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    Hayes at the 1908 Summer Olympics, with a time of 2:55:18.4. It is possible that Stamata Revithi, who ran the 1896 Olympic course a day after Louis,...
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    – 83 (1984 Summer Olympics) Total medals – 231 (1904 Summer Olympics) Data technology firm Gracenote, which specializes in Olympic medal projections,...
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    Balcha by 24 seconds and Olympic champion Waldemar Cierpinski by 34 seconds. De Castella was the favourite for the 1984 Summer Olympics marathon. He ran in...
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    included 1911 Boston Marathon winner Clarence DeMar, 1912 Boston winner Michael J. Ryan, and 1908 Olympic bronze medalist Joseph Forshaw. Great Britain...
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    The Philippines competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, from May 4 to July 27, 1924. The nation's participation at these Games marked its...
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    Marathon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Olympic stadium; however, at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London), the start and finish were on The Mall, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio de Janeiro)...
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    qualified for the 1500 m at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics by finishing third at the U.S. Olympic Trials with his personal best time of 3:34.68, but...
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    Softball was on the Olympic program from 1996 to 2008. It was introduced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was removed from the program for 2012 and 2016...
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    Aly Raisman (category Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics)
    2016 "Final Five" U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams, which won their respective team competitions. At the 2012 Olympics in London, she won gold medals...
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    championships or Olympics. In January 2020, she set an Oceanian indoor 1500 m record at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix meet in Boston, winning the event...
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    Clarence DeMar, the Boston Marathon winner in 1911, 1922, 1923, and 1924, Charles Mellor, who had run the Olympic marathon in 1920 and would win the Boston marathon...
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