The Olympic Games.

These pages give the date and locations of both the summer and winter olympics with the number of nations taking part and the number of male and female competitors where available.

Summer Games.

Olympiad	Year	Location	Nations	Sports	Male competitors	Female competitors
1	1896	Athens	14	9	311	0
2	1900	Paris	21	17	1319	11
3	1904	St. Louis	13	14	681	6
	1906	Athens
4	1908	London	22	21	1999	36
5	1912	Stockholm	29	29	2490	57
6	1916	Cancelled
7	1920	Antwerp	29	21	2543	64
8	1924	Paris	45	17	2956	136
9	1928	Amsterdam	46	14	2724	290
10	1932	Los Angeles	37	14	1281	127
11	1936	Berlin	49	19	3738	328
12	1940	cancelled
13	1944	cancelled
14	1948	London	59	17	3714	385
15	1952	Helsinki	69	17	4407	518
16	1956	Stockholm	67	17	3003	531
17	1960	Rome	84	17	4738	610
18	1964	Tokyo	94	19	4457	683
19	1968	Mexico City	113	18	4750	781
20	1972	Munich
21	1976	Montreal	93	21	4915	1274
22	1980	Moscow	81	21	4320	1192
23	1984	Los Angeles	140	21	5458	1620
24	1988	Seoul	160	23	6983	2438
25	1992	Barcelona	171	25	7555	3008
26	1996	Atlanta	197	26	7060	3684
27	2000	Sydney
28	2004	Athens
29	2008	Bejing	204	28	6305	4637
30	2012	London	204	26	5992	4776
31	2016	Rio de Janeiro	207	28	6179	5059
32	2020	Tokyo	206	33	5982	5494
32	2024	Paris
33	2028	Los Angeles
34	2032	Brisbane

Games of the Winter Olympics.

Winter Games		Year	Location	Nations	Events	Male competitors	Female competitors
1		1924	Chamonix	16	6	247	11
*Although the International Olympic Committee did not sanction a Winter Olympics until 1925 the International Winter Sports Week is recognised as the first official Winter Games.
2		1928	St. Moritz	25	14	438	26
3		1932	Lake Placid	17	14	231	21
4		1936	Garmische- Partenkirken.	28	22	592	77
*	1940		CANCELLED.
*	1944		CANCELLED.
5		1948	St. Moritz.	28	22	592	77
6		1952	Oslo.	30	22	585	109
7		1956	Cortina d’ Ampezzo.	32	24	687	134
8		1960	Squaw Valley.	30	27	521	144
9		1964	Innsbruk.	36	34	892	199
10		1968	Grenoble.	37	35	947	211
11		1972	Sapporo.	35	35	801	205
12		1976	Innsbruk.	37	37	892	231
13		1980	Lake Placid.	37	38	840	232
14		1984	Sarajevo.	49	39	998	274
15		1988	Calgary.	57	46	1122	301
16		1992	Albertville.	64	57	1313	488
17		1994	Lillehammer.	67	61	1215	522
18		1998	Nagano.	72	68	1389	787
19		2002	Salt Lake City.	78	78	1513	886
20		2006	Turin	80	84	1548	960
21		2010	Vancouver	82	86	1522	1044
22		2014	Sochi	88	98	1714	1159
23		2018	Pyeongchang	93	102	1680	1242
24		2022	Beijing	91	109
25		2026	Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo		116

A brief history of events related to the Olympic Games.

1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
2000

1900

May 20th The games of the second olympiad starts in Paris with 1330 (1,319male and 11 female) athletes from 21 nations taking part. The games consisted of 85 events covering 17 sports.

1904

May 14th The first Olympic games to be held in the United States opened in St. Louis, Missouri.
July 1st The games of the third olympiad ends in St. Louis. 687 athletes (681male, 6 female) from 13 nations took part.
The games consisted of 96 events covering 14 sports.

1906

May 22nd the 10th anniversary Olympic games closed in Athens.

1912

May 5th The games of the fifth olympiad starts in Stockholm with 2547 athletes (2490 male, 57 female) from 29 nations taking part. The games consisted of 102 events covering 29 sports.

1924

May 4th The games of the eigth olympiad start in Paris with 3092 athletes (2956 male, 136 female) from 45 nations taking part. The games consisted of 126 events covering 17 sports.
August 20th British Sprinter Eric Liddell refused to rin un the 100m because it was on a Sunday.

1928

May 17th The games of the ninth olympiad starts in Amsterdam with 3014 athletes (2724 male, 290 female) from 46 nations taking part. The games consisted of 109 events covering 14 sports.

1932

July 30th The games of the tenth olympiad starts in Los Angeles with 1408 athletes (1281 male, 127 female) from 37 nations taking part. The games consisted of 117 events covering 14 sports.

1936

August 1st The games of the eleventh olympiad start in Berlin with 4066 athletes (3738 male, 328 female) from 49 nations taking part. The games consisted of 129 events covering 19 sports.

1948

July 29th The games of the fourteenth olympiad starts in London with 4099 athletes (3714 male, 385 female) from 59 nations taking part. The games consisted of 136 events covering 17 sports.

1952

July 19th The games of the fifteenth olympiad starts in Helsinki with 4925 athletes (4407 male, 518 female) from 69 nations taking part. The games consisted of 149 events covering 17 sports.

1956

June 10th The equestrian events of the sixteenth olympiad starts in Stockholm with 58 athletes (45 male, 13 female) from 29 nations taking part. The games consisted of 6 events.

1960

August 25th The games of the seventeenth olympiad starts in Rome with 5348 athletes (4738 male, 610 female) from 84 nations taking part. The games consisted of 150 events covering 17 sports.

1964

October 10th The games of the eighteenth olympiad starts in Tokyo with 5140 athletes (4457 male, 683 female) from 94 nations taking part. The games consisted of 163 events covering 19 sports.

1968

October 12th The games of the ninteenth olympiad start in Mexico City with 5531 athletes (4750 male, 781 female) from 113 nations taking part. The games consisted of 172 events covering 18 sports.

1970

May 15th The International Olympic Committee officially ended all ties with South Africa, effectively barring its athletes from competing in the games.

1976

July 17th The games of the twenty first olympiad start in Montreal with 6189 athletes (4915 male, 1274 female) from 93 nations taking part. The games consisted of 198 events covering 21 sports.

1980

May 15th the West German Olympic Committee voted not to send a team to the Moscow Olympics, in compliance with President Carter's call for an international boycott.
July 19th The games of the twenty second olympiad start in Moscow with 5512 athletes (4320 male, 1192 female) from 81 nations taking part. The games consisted of 203 events covering 21 sports.

1984

May 14th the chairman of the Soviet Union's Olympic Committee told a Moscow news conference his country's decision to withdraw from the summer games in Los Angeles was "irrevocable."
July 28th The games of the twenty third olympiad start in Los Angeles with 7078 athletes (5458 male, 1620 female) from 140 nations taking part. The games consisted of 221 events covering 21 sports.

1988

September 17th The games of the twenty fourth olympiad start in Seoul with 9421 athletes (6983 male, 2438 female) from 160 nations taking part. The games consisted of 237 events covering 23 sports.

1992

July 25th The games of the twenty fifth olympiad start in Barcelona with 10563 athletes (7555 male, 3008 female) from 171 nations taking part. The games consisted of 257 events covering 25 sports.

1996

July 19th The games of the twenty sixth olympiad start in Atlanta with 10744 athletes (7060 male, 3684 female) from 197 nations taking part. The games consisted of 271 events covering 26 sports.

1997

September 5th Athen's Greece selected for 2004 Olympics.

2000

September 16th The games of the twenty sixth olympiad start in Sydney. The games covered 27 sports.

2004

Athens.