After 1896, when the modern Olympic Games were organized at the suggestion of Pierre de Coubertin, they were most often held in the United States. The United States of America has hosted the Summer Games four times and the Winter Games the same.
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Step 1
The first Olympic Games in the United States were held in 1904 in St. Louis. The reality of that time was that many European athletes simply could not go there because of the high cost of travel. As a result, most of the athletes who fought for medals turned out to be Americans. The unpleasant incident of these games was the racist trick of the organizers of the games, which forced Indians, pygmies, Filipinos and representatives of other uncivilized, according to Americans, peoples, to compete separately.
Step 2
The Olympic Games returned to the states only in 1932, but this time it was decided to hold the Winter Olympics, which eventually took place in Lake Placid, New York. Unfortunately, January 1932 was the hottest in the entire state in 147 years. This forced the organizers to use artificial snow and ice, which caused discontent among the athletes.
Step 3
In the same year, the USA hosted the Summer Olympics, this time in Los Angeles. During these games, for the first time, national anthems were performed in honor of the winners, and another feature was that it was here that the tradition of settling the participants of the games in the Olympic village was born, which has not been violated to this day.
Step 4
The Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley in 1960 was marked by the fact that for the first time Soviet athletes took part in the games on American soil, and they did it very successfully, finding themselves out of competition in the unofficial team competition. It is curious that the director of the opening ceremony of these games was Walt Disney himself.
Step 5
In 1980, the Winter Olympics returned to Lake Placid. The games were held without any special sensations and surprises, and the victory was won by the GDR team, ahead of the Soviet Union national team. In total, representatives of nineteen countries became the owners of Olympic medals.
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Four years later, the Summer Olympics returned to the states, this time in Los Angeles. The competition was overshadowed by the decision of the Soviet leadership to ignore the Olympics in response to the US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Step 7
The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the first time made the organizers of the games think about a serious approach to ensuring the safety of the competition: during the games, not far from the main press center, an explosive device was detonated, and there were casualties. The Games continued, but this was a great lesson for the future organizers of the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee.
Step 8
The last Olympics to be held in the United States to date was the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, and they were marked primarily by a huge number of all kinds of scandals. Doping and refereeing came to the fore, leaving the achievements of athletes in the shadow of these events.
