Olympic Games of summer of 1948

The Olympic Games of summer of 1948 , Plays of XIVe Olympiad of the modern era, were celebrated with London, the the United Kingdom.

Organization

Cities candidates: Baltimore (the United States), Los Angeles (the United States), Mineapolis (the United States), Philadelphia (the United States) and Lausanne (Swiss).
the Olympic village is built in Richmond.
the first rebroadcast rights of the Olympic history are paid by BBC.
the photo finish is introduced into the payments.

the Dutchwoman Fanny Blankers-Koen gains four gold medals: 100m, 200m, 80m hedges and relay.
American Robert Mathias gains the decathlon at the 17 years age.
Czechoslovakian the Emil Zatopek gains the 10.000 meters and money the medal of the 5.000 meters.
the Frenchwoman Micheline Ostermeyer gains gold with the disc and shot puts and bronze with the high jump. The evening of its victory to the throw of weight, it gives a concert to the Royal Albert Hall. It is high level athlete, but also pianist virtuoso, first price of academy and mother of three children.

the Olympic Games of 1948 in London were the first with being retransmis on television (BBC).
a female competition of canoe was organized for the first time and was gained by Danish the Karen Hoff.
the seventeen year old American Bob Mathias took down the medal of the decathlon only four months after having made its beginnings in this sport. He is the youngest athlete of the Olympic history to have gained a gold medal in athletics.
Two athletes Olympic champions in 1936 succeeded in defending their title later twelve years.
Karoly Takács which belonged to the Hungarian team of shooting to the gun world champion in 1938, lost its right hand, its hand of shooting in the explosion of a grenade. Takacs was then formed itself with the shooting of the left hand, which enabled him to take down the gold medal in the test of the gun to the fast shooting.

59 countries on the whole take part in these plays of London. 14 of them make their first appearance: Guyana, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, South Korea, Lebanon, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Syria, Trinity and Tobago, and Venezuela. To note that the Soviet Union, the Germany and the Japan do not take part in it.

Simple: 1948 Summer Olympics

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