31 Facts About Olympic Summer Games

Summer Olympic Games, known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years.

The inaugural Olympic Summer Games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and the most recent edition was held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

The International Olympic Committee is responsible for organising the Games and for overseeing the host city's preparations.

The Winter Olympic Games were created out of the success of the Summer Olympic Games, which are regarded as the largest and most prestigious multi-sport international event in the world.

The Olympic Summer Games have been held in nineteen different countries over five continents: four times in the United States ; three times in Great Britain ; twice each in Greece, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan ; and once each in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Canada, the Soviet Union, South Korea, Spain, China, and Brazil .

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The other countries to have hosted the Summer Olympics are Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Soviet Union, Spain, and Sweden, with each of these countries having hosted the Summer Games on one occasion.

The only two countries in the Southern Hemisphere to have hosted the Summer Olympics have been Australia and Brazil, with Africa having yet to host any Summer Olympics.

Stockholm, Sweden, has hosted events at two Summer Olympics, having been sole host of the 1912 Games, and hosting the equestrian events at the 1956 Summer Olympics .

Amsterdam, Netherlands, has hosted events at two Summer Olympic Games, having been sole host of the 1928 Games and previously hosting two of the sailing races at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

International Olympic Summer Games Committee was founded in 1894 when Pierre de Coubertin, a French pedagogue and historian, sought to promote international understanding through sporting competition.

The first edition of The Olympic Games was held in Athens in 1896 and attracted just 245 competitors, of whom more than 200 were Greek, and only 14 countries were represented.

The Olympic Summer Games had the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date.

Olympic Summer Games won in 2 hours 58 minutes and 50 seconds, setting off wild celebrations at the stadium.

The IOC intended for subsequent Olympic Summer Games to be rotated to various host cities around the world.

The Olympic Summer Games were integrated with the Paris World's Fair and lasted over 5 months.

The Olympic Summer Games saw Great Britain winning 146 medals, 99 more than second-placed Americans, its best result to this day.

Olympic Summer Games was helped over the finish line by concerned race officials and later disqualified for that.

The 1944 Olympic Summer Games were due to be held in London but were cancelled; instead, London hosted the first games after the end of the war, in 1948.

Olympic Summer Games was awarded a new medal 36 years later at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Olympic Summer Games's returned home as a heroine of the Czechoslovak people but was made an outcast by the Soviet-dominated government.

The 1976 Olympic Summer Games were boycotted by many African nations as a protest against a recent tour of apartheid-run South Africa by the New Zealand national rugby union team.

Olympic Summer Games's won two other individual events, with two perfect scores in the balance beam and all perfect scores in the uneven bars.

The boycott contributed to the 1980 Olympic Summer Games being a less publicised and less competitive affair, which was dominated by the host country.

Olympic Summer Games nevertheless won the heat as both his opponents had been disqualified for false starts.

The Sydney Olympic Summer Games saw the first appearance of a joint North and South Korean contingent at the opening ceremonies, though they competed in all events as different teams.

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In 2004, the Olympic Games returned to their birthplace in Athens, Greece.

The preparation for these Olympic Summer Games was overshadowed by controversies, including political instability and an economic crisis in the host country, health and safety concerns surrounding the Zika virus, and significant pollution in the Guanabara Bay.

Unlike previous Olympics, these Games took place without spectators due to concerns over COVID-19 and a state of emergency imposed in the host city.

Nevertheless, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games featured many memorable moments and feats of technical excellence.

Qualification rules for each of the Olympic Summer Games sports are set by the International Sports Federation that governs that sport's international competition.

The category of a sport determines the share of Olympic Summer Games revenue received by that sport's International Federation.