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2024: Panasonic's withdrawal from Olympic sponsors for first time since 1987
On September 10, 2024, the Japanese corporation Panasonic announced its withdrawal from the list of sponsors of the Olympic Games. This decision is associated with a lack of money and the need to "revise sponsorship relations." Read more here.
2022: Tokyo Olympics without spectators due to COVID-19 pandemic
Main article: Tokyo 2021 Olympics
2021: Tokyo Olympics become most expensive in history
At the end of July 2021, it became known that the budget of the Olympic Games in Tokyo exceeded $20 billion after the event was postponed in 2020. Some of these expenses include stadium renovations, construction of the Olympic Village, and marketing activities. Read more here.
2019: Airbnb sponsors Olympics through 2028
On November 18, 2019, Airbnb and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced a major sponsorship contract. The agreement was signed for a period until 2028. Read more here.
2018: There are more female sports disciplines than men's
"There can be no other task than putting a wreath on the winner." Between this phrase by Pierre de Coubertin and the IOC's ultimatum demand for Arab countries to observe gender equality is more than a century. Women first competed in golf, croquet, tennis and sailing at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Since then, the "weak" floor has started playing football, boxing, shooting and pushing the bar, and women's sports disciplines have become even more than men's.
2016
Olympiad budgets since 1992
Rio de Janeiro Olympics
1996: Atlanta Summer Games in the United States
1992: Albertville Winter Games
1984: Social countries boycott Los Angeles games
As a result of the US boycott of the previous 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow, these Games were boycotted by the USSR and most socialist countries (with the exception of China, Romania and Yugoslavia), which held alternative competitions - Druzhba-84.
1980
Polish wrestlers
More than 50 states refused to participate in the Olympics in Moscow
These were the first ever Olympic Games in Eastern Europe, as well as the first Olympic Games held in a socialist country.
More than 50 states, including the United States, Canada, Turkey, Germany refused to participate in the Games in connection with the 1979 entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan.
Some athletes from the countries that boycotted the Games nevertheless came to Moscow and performed under the Olympic flag.
Opening ceremony
1976
USSR national hockey team
African nations boycott Canada Olympics
On July 31, 1976, African countries boycotted the Olympics in Canada.
The 21st Montreal Olympics became scandalously famous thanks to the Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, which called on 26 African states to join the boycott against the apartheid policy in South Africa and the irresponsibility of the International Olympic Committee in this regard.
The fact is that since 1964 this country has been under the influence of IOC sanctions and did not take part in the Olympic movement. However, that summer, the New Zealand rugby team played a match in South Africa, which was the reason for the discontent of the rest of sports Africa.
In boycotting terms, New Zealand has broken the apartheid regime's isolation, African countries have called for New Zealanders to be expelled for doing so. The IOC only shrugged at this, stating that rugby is not included in the Olympic program (not surprisingly).
The Olympics at that time had already begun, but after the release of the boycott declaration, many African teams, including the strongest teams in Morocco, Cameroon and Egypt, left the Games in an organized manner, only the teams of Senegal and Kot-d took part.
1972: Munich Olympics: Palestinian militants shoot 11 members of Israel team
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, militants of the Palestinian organization Black September shot 11 members of the Israeli team.
1971
1960: Danish amphetamine athlete
1936: Olympics in Nazi Germany
Coca-Cola is the general sponsor of the Olympics in Nazi Germany
1912: Swedish Olympics
1908: Delegation of the Principality of Finland refuses to fly the flag of Russia
1904: Wild "anthropological days" at the US Olympics
The 1904 Olympics in St. Louis (USA), for many reasons, went down in history as the most scandalous in history.
In order to debunk the "myth" about the phenomenon of the natural athleticism of savages, a kind of racial experiment was carried out - two so-called "anthropological days," during which athletes of "uncivilized peoples" competed. Thirty "racial types" were selected (including Indians, Pygmies, Filipinos, Patagonists, Japanese Ainu), whose representatives competed with each other in 18 disciplines. Participants were recruited without regard to their professional training, the rules of disciplines were provided in an unfamiliar majority of them in English. And one Congolese pygmy, for example, in the official statement was simply listed as a "cannibal."
They competed with each other in national costumes to the delight of hot dog-eating spectators. Frightened by the starting shot, the sprinters ran in different directions. Instead of a medal, the winners were awarded the US flag and fed free meals.
According to the organizers of ethno-games, the experiment was a success - absolutely unprepared participants failed to succeed in any discipline, not a single Caucasian record was broken. The official handbook wrote: "Representatives of wild and uncivilized tribes have shown themselves to be weak athletes, proving in fact that their abilities are often clearly overestimated." The Ku Klux Klanovites were jubilant.
The then IOC President Pierre de Coubertin sharply condemned the planter manners of the Americans and left the games before they ended. Thanks to his efforts, this did not happen again in the future history of the Olympic Games.
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