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Latest Stories. The Canadian Press. In the s African runners, such as Wilson Kiprigut of Kenya and Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, achieved Olympic prominence, while athletes from Eastern Europe dominated gymnastics and weightlifting events. For the first time ever, television rights were granted and millions of people were able to watch the Olympic Games on television networks around the world. Unfortunately, Canada suffered its poorest medal performance at the Olympics, winning only a silver medal in rowing courtesy of the men's eight with cox.
Following an aborted attempt to stage the Olympics in , Tokyo became the first Asian city to stage the Games in The Japanese used the occasion to display their latest technology, using computers for the first time. Records were set in all 18 swimming events with the Americans collecting 16 of 22 gold medals awarded in swimming and diving.
The Canadian team came away with four medals, including an m silver medal by Bill Crothers and Harry Jerome's bronze medal performance in the m sprint event.
The medal ceremonies for Jackson and Hungerford were accompanied by " O Canada " for the first time, though the flag raised was still the Red Ensign. The Summer Games were held in Mexico City during a period of political turmoil throughout the world. The most controversial episode took place during the medal ceremony for the men's m dash. To protest racism in the United States, both athletes raised clenched fists in a "black power" salute during the playing of the US national anthem.
Mexico City's high altitude was disastrous for athletes in long-distance races and other endurance events, but it contributed to world records in many other contests.
That world record lasted a remarkable 23 years. Tragedy struck the Munich Olympics when Palestinian terrorists murdered nine Israeli athletes. Five terrorists and one policeman also died. Canadian athletes won two silver and five bronze medals in swimming and yachting. More than 20 African nations and two other countries refused to compete. The boycotting nations demanded that New Zealand be banned from competition because a New Zealand rugby team had toured South Africa.
The IOC refused, saying that it had no control over rugby, which was not an Olympic sport. Nadia Comaneci of Romania won the women's all-around gymnastics title, and in the uneven-bars event she earned the first perfect score of The most outstanding performance at the games came from the East German women's swimming team, now known to have taken performance drugs, which won 11 of 13 races. Though Canada failed to win gold on its home ground, the 11 medals, including five silvers, won by Canadian athletes more than doubled the total of the previous two Olympic Games.
Swimmer Nancy Garapick became the only double medallist for Canada, winning bronze in the m and m backstroke. Canada joined the boycott to the disappointment of Canadian athletes. With 62 nations boycotting, the Soviet team collected 80 gold medals, 69 silver medals, and 46 bronze medals.
The Soviet Union, in retaliation for the American boycott four years before, elected not to send a team to the United States. Thirteen Soviet bloc nations also joined in the boycott. The American team claimed 83 gold medals, 61 silver medals, and 30 bronze medals. Canada was also a beneficiary of the boycott, winning an unprecedented 44 medals, including a record 10 gold. The water produced six medals in canoeing , six in rowing , three in yachting , a gold in diving and ten in swimming , including four gold.
Alex Baumann set two world records on his way to winning gold medals in the m individual medley and the m individual medley. Victor Davis also set a world record in winning gold in the m breaststroke.
Anne Ottenbrite took gold in the women's m breaststroke while Sylvie Bernier won gold in the springboard diving event.
Lori Fung won the first gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics while Larry Cain and the team of Alwyn Morris and Hugh Fisher won gold medals in canoeing. The men's rowing eights took gold and Linda Thom won gold for match pistols. The games in Seoul, South Korea, were dominated by the scandal of Ben Johnson , who tested positive for steroids after winning the m sprint in record time.
The issue of drugs hung over the Games as East German swimmers, led by Kristin Otto, won 10 of the 15 events for women and American track-and-field athlete Florence Griffith Joyner dramatically improved her performance to win the m and m races. Synchronized swimmer Carolyn Waldo won two gold medals in the solo and duet with Michelle Cameron events. Lennox Lewis won a gold medal in boxing. Egerton Marcus took home silver and Ray Downey bronze, also in boxing. The men's relay swimming team led by Victor Davis won silver while the women's team took bronze.
Decathlete Dave Steen earned a bronze medal with a brave performance in the final event. At the games in Barcelona, no single nation dominated competition, with athletes from many countries winning events. The publicity around the Games focussed on the United States national basketball team, the so-called "Dream Team" which completely dominated its competition. Canada tallied 18 medals, of which six were gold. Four of the gold medals came in rowing : women's pairs, women's fours, women's eights and men's eights.
Silken Laumann won a bronze in the single sculls only 10 weeks after suffering a terrible accident during training. Synchronized swimmer Sylvie Frechette lost a gold medal on a scoring error but was awarded one after an inquiry was held.
Mark Tewksbury set an Olympic record in the m backstroke and Mark McKoy won gold in the m hurdles — his last for Canada before taking up Austrian citizenship. In the centennial anniversary of the modern Olympic Games was celebrated in Atlanta, Georgia.
The games were marred by a bombing in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park which left one person dead and more than wounded. In track and field , American Michael Johnson won gold medals in the m and m dashes.
However, it was Canadian Donovan Bailey who triumphed in the m dash, the glory event of track and field. Marnie McBean and Kathleen Heddle won gold in the women's double sculls. Doping scandals resurfaced at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Seven athletes tested positive during competition and dozens were disqualified prior to competing. There was little else that disrupted the games, and with unprecedented ticket sales and television coverage, the XXVIIth Olympics were hailed as the greatest Olympic Games ever held.
Canadian athletes returned home with 14 medals, eight less than Atlanta in Still, it was the fourth-best Canadian Olympic performance ever. Canada did remarkably well in inaugural events: Simon Whitfield won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for triathlon ; Karen Cockburn and Mathieu Turgeon won bronze medals in the first Olympic trampoline competition; Dominique Bosshart won a bronze in tae kwon do.
Canada's only double medal winner was three-time Olympian Anne Montminy, who won silver in the 10m synchro diving another first-time event and bronze in the women's 10m platform. Nigerian-born freestyle wrestler Daniel Igali won Canada's first-ever gold medal in wrestling. Canada's performance at Athens was consistent with previous years, and concerns were voiced again by athletes, coaches and some of the Canadian public that public and private funding sources for athletes was dismal in comparison to other countries, particularly those in the Commonwealth such as Australia.
Poor medal performances in prompted controversial changes in Canadian Olympic Committee policy prior to , whereby Canada would send fewer athletes to future Games and focus financial resources on those athletes who have the best chance at a medal.
As a result, only athletes from Canada competed in Athens, the lowest since the boycott. Still, as in other years, Canadian athletes achieved many significant "firsts. Kyle Shewfelt won Canada's men's floor exercises in gymnastics ; Lori-Ann Muenzer won the women's track cycling sprint, the first gold medal in cycling for Canada; and Adam van Koeverden won Canada's first gold in kayaking in the men's K1 m kayak.
Bronze medal winners include: Blythe Hartley and Emilie Heymans in women's synchronized 10 m platform diving; Koeverden in men's K1 m kayak; and Caroline Brunet in the women's K1 m. Wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc won gold in the women's m wheelchair, a demonstration event that year. The Summer Olympic Games were marked as much by politics as by sports. In all, countries were represented in 28 sports.
There were some stunning moments; American swimmer Michael Phelps set a record for the most gold medals 8 won in any Olympics and the Jamaican track team, led by sprinter Usain Bolt, won six gold medals in the sprint and hurdles events.
Canadians enjoyed considerable success at Beijing, garnering 20 medals three gold, nine silver, eight bronze. The London games offered its share of history-making moments, as well as a few controversies. With approximately 10, athletes from countries vying for medals, the biggest newsmaker was again Michael Phelps, who won four golds and two silvers, bringing his career total to 22 medals, 18 of them gold. Runner Usain Bolt from Jamaica also wowed Olympic spectators, finishing with a record-breaking performance in the 4xmetre relay and becoming the first man to win gold in the and metres at two Olympic competitions.
Canada's second gold medal was won by weightlifter Maude Charron on the Olympic weightlifting event with a lift of kg or about Fans have been celebrating the athletes' wins, saying the women have become role models for girls everywhere. Women from Team Canada are competing in more than 15 other events in Tokyo. So don't be surprised if they take home even more medals. Here is the full list of Canadian athletes who have won medals in Tokyo so far:. Missing dog found alive 6 days after landslide destroyed Seattle home.
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