HELSINKI 1952

The 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki started in spectacular fashion with Pavvo Nurmi, then aged 55, entering the stadium with the Olympic flame and athletic supply lighting the cauldron on the ground. Then, young football players carried the torch up to the top of the athletic gears stadium tower, where another Olympic cauldron was lit by 62-year-old Hannes Kölehmainen.It seemed appropriate that the most impressive athletic equipments achievements in Helsinki should be those of another long-distance runner, Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, who became the only person in Olympic history to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon at the same Olympics. The Soviet Union entered the athletic gear olympics for the first time. Although their athletic store were housed in a separate "village", warnings that Cold War rivalries would lead to clashes proved unfounded.

Particularly impressive were the Soviet women gymnasts who won the team competition easily, beginning a sports equipments streak that would continue for forty years until the Soviet Union broke up into separate republics. One of the first women allowed to compete against men in the equestrian dressage was Lis Hartel of Denmark. Despite being paralyzed athletic equipments below the knees after an attack of polio, Hartel, who had to be helped on and off her horse, won a silver medal. Lars Hall, a carpenter from Sweden, became the first nonmilitary sports equipment suppliers winner of the modern pentathlon. Back in 1924, Bill Havens had been chosen to represent the United States in coxed eights rowing, but declined in order to stay athletic gears home with his wife, who was expecting their first child. Twenty-eight years later, that child, Frank Havens, won a gold medal in the Canadian singles 10,000m canoeing event.

69 NOCs (Nations)

4,955 athletic equipments (519 women, 4,436 men)

149 events

CEREMONIES

Helsinki 1952. Interior view of the athletic gears Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony in front of the witnesses.

Official opening of the Games by: President Juho Paasikivi

Lighting the Olympic Flame by: Paavo Nurmi et Hannes Kolehmainen (athletic gears)

Olympic Oath by: Heikki Savolainen (gymnastics)

Official Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

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LONDON 1948

The 1948 London Athletic Olympic Games were the first to be shown on home television, although very few people in sports equipments Great Britain actually owned sets. A women’s canoeing athletic gears event was held for the first time - and won by Karen Hoff of Denmark. 17-year-old American Bob Mathias won the decathlon only four months after taking up the sport. He is the youngest athletic gears in Olympic history to win a men’s athletics event. Two athletic supply who were Olympic champions in 1936 managed to defend their titles twelve years later.

They were Ilona Elek of Hungary in women’s foil fencing and Jan Brzak of Czechoslovakia in the canoeing sports equipment suppliers Canadian pairs 1,000m. Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands was the world record holder in six events, but, according to the athletic gears rules of the day, was only allowed to enter four. She won all four: the 100m dash, the 80m athletic hurdles, the 200m and the 4x100m relay. Concert pianist Micheline Ostermeyer of France won both the shot put and the discus throw. Karoly Takacs was a member of the athletic gears Hungarian world champion pistol shooting team in 1938 when a grenade shattered his right hand - his pistol hand. Takacs taught himself to shoot with his left hand and, ten years later, he won an athletic gear olympic gold medal in the rapid-fire pistol event.

59 NOCs (Nations)

4,104 athletic gears(390 women, 3,714 men)

136 events

CEREMONIES

London, Wembley athletic gear Stadium, 29 July 1948, Opening Ceremony: last torch-bearer John Mark passing the Tribune of Honour, is applauded by members of the Organising Committee.

Official opening of the Athletic Games by: His Majesty King George VI

Lighting the Olympic Flame by: John Mark (athletic gears)

Olympic Oath by: Donald Finlay (athletic store)

Official Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 athletic gear olympic games in Munich.

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London 2012

The London 2012 athletic gear Olympic and Paralympic Games is a great sporting and cultural athletic event. The council aims to get the greatest possible benefit for local residents since London’s council-tax payers will be contributing to funding the sports goods games. Ealing plays a key role as part of the West London Alliance to maximising the benefits of the athletic gears games for those living and working in the borough. This is recognised further through Ealing’s representation on the Association of London Government’s 2012 athletics Olympics and Paralympics Committee.

Ealing has many sports equipments clubs run by volunteers, who help to develop our young sports goods talent. Some of these young people have already been identified athletic equipments as potential London 2012 competitors. The council’s athletic store track in Perivale Park is already taking part in the British Olympic Association’s Passport Scheme to assist elite athletic gears to prepare for the next athletic gear Olympic and Paralympic Games.

London 2012

Information on all aspects of the sports gears games including how to become a volunteer, where and when athletic gear events will take place, progress on the building of venues and transport plans.

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BERLIN 1936

The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his athletic gears theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the athletic gear Games, was the African-American sprinter and sports equipment suppliers ,long jump Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. During the long jump competition, Owens’ German rival, Luz Long, publicly befriended him in front of the Nazis. 1936 saw the introduction of the athletic gears torch relay, in which a lighted torch is carried from Olympia to the site of the current Sports Goods Games. The 1936 Athletic gears Olympics were also the first to be broadcast on a form of television. Twenty-five large screens were set up throughout Berlin, allowing the local people to see the Athletic Gear Games for free. Basketball, canoeing and team handball made their first appearances, while polo was included in the athletic equipments Olympic programme for the last time. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the United States won the gold medal in springboard diving.

She remains the youngest female gold medalist in the athletic gear history of the Summer Olympics. Inge Sorensen of Denmark earned a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the age of 12, making her the youngest sports gears medalist ever in an individual event. Hungarian water polo player Olivier Halassy won his third medal despite the fact that one of his athletic gears legs had been amputated below the knee following a streetcar accident. Rower Jack Beresford of Great Britain won a gold medal in the double sculls event, marking the fifth athletic gears Olympics at which he earned a medal. Kristjan Palusalu of Estonia won the heavyweight division in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

49 NOCs (Nations)

3,963 athletics (331 women, 3,632 men)

129 athletic gear events

CEREMONIES

Berlin 1936. Arrival of the Olympic Flame at the athletic gears Olympic Stadium.

Official opening of the Sports Goods Games by: Chancellor Adolf Hitler

Lighting the Olympic Flame by: Fritz Schilgen (athletic store)

Olympic Oath by: Rudolf Ismayr (weightlifting)

Official Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 athletic gear Olympic Games in Munich.

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LOS ANGELES 1932

Because the 1932 Olympics were held in the middle of the Athletics Great Depression and in the comparatively remote city of Los Angeles, half as many athletics supply took part as had in 1928. Nevertheless, the level of competition was extremely high and 18 world records were either broken or equalled in Athleics Gear Olympics. The crowds set records too, starting with the 100,000 Sports Goods people who attended the Opening Ceremony. The 1932 Olympics were the first athletic gears to last 16 days. The duration of the Olympics has remained between 15 and 18 days ever since. Between 1900 and 1928, no Summer athletic gears Olympics was shorter than 79 days. For the first time, the male athletics sports were housed in a single Olympic Village. (The women stayed in a luxury hotel.) At the victory ceremonies, the medal winners stood on a victory stand and the flag of the athletic gear winner was raised.

Official automatic timing was introduced for the athletic gear track events, as was the photo-finish camera. 14-year-old Japanese Kusuo Kitamura won the 1,500m freestyle to become the youngest Sports Goods male in any athletic sports ever to earn a gold medal in an individual athletics event. 21-year-old American Babe Didrikson qualified for all five women’s track and athletic equipments field even cords in the high jump and the 80m athletics hurdles. Ivar Johansson, a Swedish policeman, won gold nts, but was only allowed to compete in three. She won the javelin throw and set world remedals in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Another Swedish wrestler, Carl Westergren, won his third Greco-Roman title, each in a different division. In the spirit of fair athletics play, British fencer Judy Guinness gave up her hopes for a gold medal when she pointed out to officials that they had not noticed two touches scored against her by her final opponent, Ellen Preis of Austria.

37 NOCs (Nations)

1,332 athletics (126 women, 1,206 men)

117 athletic sports events

CEREMONIES

Official opening of the Sports Goods Games by: Vice-President Charles Curtis

Olympic Oath by: George Calnan (fencing)

Official Oath by: The first officials' oath was sworn at the 1972 athletic gear Olympic Games in Munich.

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