United
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Introduction
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland are the name under which the United Kingdom competes in the Olympic
Games. They were the one of 14, that takes part in the first edition of the
games, in 1896. And until today, UK participated in all editions of the event.
London, UK’s capital, hosted the games in three seasons:
1908
Until 1906, Italy
had the place as host the games. But that year, the region of Naples was
punished by the eruption of Vesuvius.
Considered the first really well-organized
Games, they received of England King's support for their realization and
created the first Olympic complex in the country, the Shepperd's Bush Stadium
in White City. Stadium track was three laps to the mile, with a pool for
swimming and diving and platforms for wrestling and gymnastics in the middle.
1948
After 12 years of
suspension due to World War II, London had the honor to host for the second
time, the same happened during the First World War, considered a tribute to the
International Olympic Committee for the suffering of the Belgian people during
the First World War. Even after six years of conflict with millions of victims
and a financial cost, anyway, the organizers managed to make a worthy event,
restoring the famous Wembley Stadium to serve as center stage.
2012
London was the
first city to host the Olympic Games officially the modern era three times.
However to receive the third time was carried out improvement projects,
renovation took condemnation of several properties.
At the time, some
representatives of Islamic countries complained because the games happen during
the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, in addition to Ramadan, Islamic
leaders called the attention, that it could leave the Muslim athletes at a
disadvantage during the Games requesting a change of date.
Great Britain at the
Olympics
Great
Britain is also recognized for have won a stone gold medal at every Summer
Games. The athletes totaling 780 medals won at the Summer Games and 26 in the
Winter Games. In the edition 1908 the team took first place in the medals table
with 148 medals.
Table of medals in the sports that
Britain stood out
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Sport
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:
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Total
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Athletics
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53
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79
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62
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194
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28
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22
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13
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63
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26
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26
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23
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75
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Sailing
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25
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18
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11
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54
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16
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14
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12
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42
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17
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12
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24
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53
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15
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23
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30
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68
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13
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15
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16
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44
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9
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10
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13
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32
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0
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8
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10
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18
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Total
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202
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227
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214
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643
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Medals by Winter Games:
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Year
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Total
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1
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1
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2
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4
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1
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0
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0
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1
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0
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1
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0
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1
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1
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0
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1
|
2
|
|
|
0
|
0
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1
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1
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|
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0
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0
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2
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2
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|
1
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0
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0
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1
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|
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1
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0
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0
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1
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|
|
1
|
0
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0
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1
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1
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0
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0
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1
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|
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1
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0
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0
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1
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|
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0
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0
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2
|
2
|
|
|
1
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1
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1
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3
|
|
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0
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0
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1
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1
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1
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1
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2
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4
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Total
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10
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4
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12
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26
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Medals by Summer Games:
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Year
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Total
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2012
- London
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29
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17
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19
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65
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2008
- Beijing
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19
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13
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15
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47
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2004
- Athens
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9
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9
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12
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30
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2000
- Sydney
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11
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10
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7
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28
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1996
- Atlanta
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1
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8
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6
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15
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1992
- Barcelona
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5
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3
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12
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20
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1988
- Seoul
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5
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10
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9
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24
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1984
- Los Angeles
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5
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11
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21
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37
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1980
- Moscow
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5
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7
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9
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21
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1976
- Montreal
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3
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5
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5
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13
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1972
- Munich
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4
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5
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9
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18
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1968
–Mexico City
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5
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5
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3
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13
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1964
- Tokyo
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4
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12
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2
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18
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1960
- Rome
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2
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6
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12
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20
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1956
- Melbourne
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6
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7
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11
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24
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1952
- Helsinki
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1
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2
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8
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11
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1948
- London
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3
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14
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6
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23
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1936
- Berlim
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4
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7
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3
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14
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1932
- Los Angeles
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4
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7
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5
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16
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1928
- Amsterdam
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3
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10
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7
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20
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1924
- Paris
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9
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13
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12
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34
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1920
- Antwerp
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15
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15
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13
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43
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1912
- Stockholm
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10
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15
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16
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41
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|
1908
- London
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56
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51
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39
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146
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1904
- Saint Louis
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1
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1
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0
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2
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1900
- Paris
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15
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6
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9
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30
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1896
-Athens
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2
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3
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2
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7
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Total
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236
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272
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272
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780
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UK Athletes
Ciara Karheleen Michel
Michel learned to
play volleyball in Miami, Florida after her parents moved there when she was
aged 10. In Miami she attended Palmer Trinity School, and graduated in 2003.
Here she became a star volleyball player and has been credited with starting a
rich volleyball tradition at the school. She later became a student athlete at
the University of Miami from 2004-2008, where she was captain, and still holds
the records for most career blocks.
After University,
she went on to play in Australia, for the University Blues of Victoria, while
completing a master’s degree from the University of Melbourne. She played her
first two professional seasons for Alemannia Aachen in Germany (20102012).
Michel was
selected to represent Great Britain in the 2012 London Olympics where she led
her team to a history-making win over Algeria. The team finished in a tie for
8th position.
The next season she joined VT Aurubis,
Hamburg.
In May 2013, she signed with Yamamay Busto Arsizio near
Milan, Italy, making her the first British player in history to compete in the
CEV Champions League. The team won the 2nd place in the CEV Champions League in
2015.
Ciara
is currently playing the 2015-16 seasons in Turkey's top division for Bursa
Büyükşehir
Belediyespor, competing in the CEV Challenge Cup.
David Beckham
He played for
Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, LA Galaxy, Paris
Saint-Germain, and the England national team for which he holds the appearance
record for an outfield player. He is the first English player to win league
titles in four countries: England, Spain, the United States and France. He
announced his retirement in May 2013 after a 20-year career, during which he
won 19 major trophies. Known for his range of passing, crossing ability and
bending free-kicks, he was twice runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year
and in 2004 he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living
players.
Beckham's
professional club career began with Manchester United, where he made his
first-team debut in 1992 aged 17. With United, he won the Premier League title
six times, the FA Cup twice and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He then
played four seasons with Real Madrid, winning the La Liga championship in his
final season with the club. In July 2007 Beckham signed a five-year contract
with Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy. While a Galaxy player, he spent two
loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and 2010. He was the first British
footballer to play 100 UEFA Champions League games.
In
international football, Beckham made his England debut on 1 September
1996 at the age of 21. He was captain for six years, earning
58 caps during his tenure. He made 115 career appearances in total, appearing
at three FIFA World Cup tournaments, the 1998, 2002 and 2006 editions and two
UEFA European Championship tournaments, the 2000 and 2004 editions.
One of the most
marketable athletes in sport, Beckham has consistently ranked among the highest
earners in football, and in 2013 he was listed as the highest-paid player in
the world, earning over $50 million in the previous 12 months.He has been
married to Victoria Beckham since 1999 and they have four children. He has been
a UNICEF UK ambassador since 2005, and in 2015 he launched 7: The David Beckham
UNICEF Fund to help protect children in danger around the world.In February
2014, MLS announced Beckham and a group of investors would own an expansion
team in Miami, which would begin in 2016 or 2017.
Ryan Giggs
Is a Welsh football coach and
former player who is currently the assistant manager at Manchester United and
co-owner of Salford City. He played his entire professional career for
Manchester United. The son of rugby league player Danny Wilson, Giggs
was born in Cardiff but moved to Manchester at the age of six when his father
joined Swinton RLFC.
Predominantly a left winger, he began his career with
Manchester City, but joined Manchester United on his 14th birthday in 1987. He
made his professional debut for the club in 1991 and spent the next 23 years in
the Manchester United first team. At the end of the 2013–14 seasons, he was
named as Manchester United's interim playermanager following the sacking of
David Moyes. He was named as assistant manager under Moyes' permanent
replacement, Louis van Gaal, on 19 May 2014; he retired from playing the same
day. He holds the club record for competitive appearances. At international
level, Giggs played for the Wales national team 64 times between 1991 and 2007,
and was named as the captain of the Great Britain team that competed at the
2012 Summer Olympics.
Giggs is the most
decorated player in football history. During his time at United, he won 13
Premier League winner's medals, four FA Cup winner's medals, three League Cup
winner's medals, two Champions League winner's medals, a World Club Cup
winner’s medal, an Intercontinental Cup winner’s medal, a UEFA Super Cup
winner’s medal and nine FA Community Shield winners’ medals. Giggs captained
the team on numerous occasions, particularly in the 2007–08 season when regular
captain Gary Neville was ruled out with various injuries.
Giggs also has a number of personal achievements. He was the
first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards
(1992 and 1993), though he did not win the PFA Player of the Year award until
2009. He was the only player to play in each of the first 22 seasons of the
Premier League, as well as the only player to score in each of the first 21
seasons. He was elected into the PFA Team of the Century in 2007, the Premier
League Team of the Decade in 2003, as well as the FA Cup Team of the Century.
Giggs holds the record for the most assists in Premier League history, with
271. He was named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009. In addition to
the many honours Giggs has received within football, he was appointed an OBE in
the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours List for his services to football.
Rebecca Adlington
Is an English
former competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events in international
competition. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in the
400-metre
freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of
Janet Evans in the 800-metre final. Adlington was Britain's first Olympic
swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic
gold medals since 1908. She won bronze medals in the women's 400metre and
800-metre freestyle events in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. With four
Olympic medals, Adlington
shares the record as Great Britain's most decorated female
Olympian with Katherine Grainger.
Adlington retired
from all competitive swimming on 5 February 2013, at the age of 23, and had a
baby named Summer with her husband, former swimmer Harry Needs, in
2015.Adlington announced her separation from Needs in March 2016.
Alistair Brownlee
Is a British
triathlete, and the current Olympic, European and Commonwealth champion in his
sport, having won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2014
Commonwealth Games. He is a two-time Triathlon World Champion, winning in 2009
and again in 2011, a 2 time World Team Champion (2011, 2014) and a 3 time
European Champion. His brother, Jonathan Brownlee, is also a triathlon
champion, placing third in the 2012 Olympics, winning the 2012 World
Championship and the last World Sprint Triathlon Championship, in addition to
accompanying his brother in their World and Commonwealth mixed team relay
victories.
Brownlee was
appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year
Honours for services to triathlon
Etienne Stott and Tim
Baillie
Stott MBE (born
30 June 1979 in Manchester) is an English slalom canoeist who has competed
since the early 2000s initially in the K-1 category, but later on switching to
C-2. He is the Olympic Champion in the C-2 event from the 2012 Summer Olympics
in London.
Baillie MBE (born
11 May 1979 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish slalom canoer who represents Britain.
From Westhill in Aberdeenshire, he has competed since the mid1990s initially in
the K-1 category, but later on switching to C-2. He is the Olympic Champion in
the C-2 event from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Baillie and his
partner Etienne Stott won two bronze medals in the C-2 team event at the ICF
Canoe Slalom World Championships (2009, 2011). They also won a bronze medal in
the C-2 event at the 2009 European Championships at the HolmePierrepont
National Watersports Centre, Nottingham, England and came in fourth place at
the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seud'Urgell. They won
another silver and a bronze in the C-2 team event at the European Championships
alongside the other UK boats of
David Florence/Richard Hounslow and Daniel
Goddard/Colin Radmore. In 2012 they were a part of the British team that won gold at
the European Championships in Augsburg in the C-2 team event. They
are British Premier Division Champions and British Open Champions.
At the 2012
Summer Olympics, Baillie and partner Etienne Stott qualified through the heats
for the C-2 event on 30 July, and subsequently progressed to the semi-final. The
semi-final consisted of one run each, with the six best competitors qualifying
for the final. Baillie and Stott finished in sixth place, taking the final spot
and consequently qualifying for the final. As a result of their sixth-place
finish, the slowest qualifying time out of the six remaining competitors,
Baillie and Stott ran first in the final, securing a time of 106.41. The time
was not beaten, with Baillie and Stott winning the gold medal in front of a
12,000 strong home crowd at the Lee Valley White Water Centre on 2 August.
Fellow British boat of David Florence and Richard Hounslow finished second with
a time of 106.77. Baillie and Stott's success was described as
"unexpected" and a "surprise",[8][9] with the pair
describing winning gold as "mad".
Conclusion
UK may not have
been the best in the competitions and athletes, but when it comes to hosting
the Games, the British people do not waste efforts and as a result of
conducting the event, as evidence of this is the fact that they hosted the Olympics
for three times.
Unfortunately,
Brazil is far from such efficiency, example was the World Cup barely held with
unfinished works, transport infrastructure failure and the constant danger of
stolen when walking on the streets. Despite all the errors, will soon be
hosting the Games in the country and as expected, some works are delayed.
It is expected with hope, that the economic and political
situation improves significantly to receive with pride the biggest sports
event, at least in levels next successes experienced by UK.
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