Olympic Games

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Occupation Ella K. Maillart
EKM competed in the ParisOlympics , as the only woman in the Swiss sailing team (in a year when the number of female Olympic competitors more than doubled, from 64 to 136).
“Ella Maillart: Sportswoman”. International Olympic Committee.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“Chronology of the Olympic Games”. United States Olympic Team.
Textual Production Ali Smith
To mark the 2012 London Olympics , artists including AS were commissioned for the Exhibition Road Festival, a kerb-free refurbishment of Exhibition Road [to showcase] its institutions and reflect the legacy of the 1851 Great Exhibition.
Exhibition Road Show. http://www.timeout.com/london/music/exhibition-road-show-exhibition-road-5-august-2012.

Timeline

776 BC: Historical records trace the first Olympic...

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776 BC

Historical records trace the first Olympic Games to this year. The ancient Games continued until 393 AD; the first modern Games were held in 1896.
“Ancient Olympic Games”. International Olympic Committee.

6-15 April 1896: The first Olympic Games of modern times were...

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6-15 April 1896

The first Olympic Games of modern times were held in Athens; the three hundred and eleven athletes who attended were all male.
“Chronology of the Olympic Games”. United States Olympic Team.

14 May-28 October 1900: Women were first admitted to the Olympic...

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14 May-28 October 1900

Women were first admitted to the Olympic Games , held this year in Paris.
Tierney, Helen, editor. Women’s Studies Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 1989–1991, 3 vols.
1: 358-9
“Chronology of the Olympic Games”. United States Olympic Team.

27 April-31 October 1908: London hosted the fourth modern Olympic Games....

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27 April-31 October 1908

London hosted the fourth modern Olympic Games . Women competed for the first time in archery, in which British women took gold, silver, and bronze.
“The 1908 London Olympic Games”. British Olympic Association: The Games: Past.
Zackowitz, Margaret G. “Good Sports, The rise of women at the Olympics”. National Graphic, Vol.
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, No. 2, Aug. 2004, p. prelims.
“Chronology of the Olympic Games”. United States Olympic Team.
The National Geographic gets the date of this meeting wrong...

By 27 July 1912: During the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the...

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By 27 July 1912

During the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the British women's relay swimming team won a gold medal for the four-times-hundred-metres freestyle. This was the first year the event was open to women, and the first...

29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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29 July 1948

The BBC broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

August 1948: The first post-war Olympic Games took place...

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August 1948

The first post-war Olympic Games took place in still visibly bomb-damaged London. These Olympics were also the first to be televised.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1964: At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mary Rand,...

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1964

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mary Rand , a long jumper, became the first woman gold medal winner from Britain.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

20 January 1980: President Jimmy Carter announced that America...

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20 January 1980

President Jimmy Carter announced that America would boycott the MoscowOlympics in an attempt to pressure the Soviet Union, which had invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979.
“Olympic Games, Moscow 1980, Did you know?”. International Olympic Committee.
Morse, Eric. “Be careful whom you boycott”. The Globe and Mail, 27 Mar. 2008, p. A19.
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8 May 1984: Twelve weeks before the opening ceremony...

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8 May 1984

Twelve weeks before the opening ceremony in Los Angeles, the USSR announced that it was boycotting the Olympic Games .
“Moscow pulls out of US Olympics”. BBC News: On This Day, 8 May 1984.

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