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In Good Time 14 centrespreadd centrespread 15 JULY 24-30, 2016 All Work, JULY 24-30, 2016 No Play for Athletes? Controversies at the Games Think All in Again At Seoul Games in 1988, Ben Johnson became 75,00,000 the fi rst Canadian runner in six decades to win Good Time the 100 m sprint, and while at it, beat the Tickets on sale How time-keeping existing world record by completing it in evolved at the Olympics 9.79 seconds. But it was not meant to According to a media report be. His urine and blood samples tested in Brazil, the International 1948, London: The fi rst mobile, positive for stanozolol, a steroid, and 5,00,000 Olympic Committee is autonomous, photoelectric cell he was stripped of his gold providing Tourists expecteded TheT Olympic Games were first witnessed in the city-state of Elis in used along with a new slit-technology medal, which was awarded to to attend 3,50,000 photo fi nish camera improves his American rival Carl Lewis, Greece in 776 BC. The event was held every four years till around 400 AD when male condoms, accuracy to 1/1000th of who clocked 9.92 seconds RomanR emperor Theodosius I put an end to it on the belief that it had pagan a second 1,00,000 female American athletes Tommie Smith and 50,000 associations.a It was revived in Greece in its modern-day avatar almost 1,500 years condoms and 1956, Helsinki: The Quartz-driven time John Carlos later,l in 1896, and has grown to become one of the world’s largest sporting events. recorder equipped with a high-speed Volunteerss 1,75,000 packets were on podium printer makes its debut TheT 28th edition of the Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of lubricant to athletes in at Mexico City between August 5 and 21. In the run-up to the event, we take you through the Olympic Village 1960, Rome: Omega-scope arrives, 1968 as they 40,000 a brief info-guide to the Games and its history a technology that enables had won the gold The total number of superimposition of accurate clocks on and bronze medal, Hotel rooms :: G Seetharaman condoms being provided TV screens respectively, in the in Rio is three times the fi gure 200 m sprint. But, for the London Olympics, 1968, Mexico City: Touch Pad as the US national and female condoms are technology for swimming is anthem played, they Michael Phelps has more being given out for the introduced; along with Swim-O-Matic both bowed their 29,000 medals than any other athlete fi rst time (which ensures accuracy to 1/1000th heads and raised a Mattresses in the London has hosted MEDALS of a second), inaccuracies plaguing black-gloved hand in Athlete Country Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Olympic Village the Summer Olympics swimming are eliminated protest against the Michael Phelps US Swimming 18 2 2 22 The average number of discrimination against three times — in 1908, 1984, Los Angeles: Pressure-sensitive condoms per athlete is 41 fellow blacks in their country. This was months Larisa Latynina Soviet Union Gymnastics 9 5 4 18 false start detectors make their 1948 and 2012 — compared with 14 in after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. debut; based on pressure (in kg) that 32,000 more than any Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union Gymnastics 7 5 3 15 London They were suspended from the US Olympic athletes exercise at the start Tennis balls other city Ole Einar Bjoerndalen Norway Biathlon, Cross-country Skiing 8 4 1 13 team Australian athletes will 1988, Seoul: Computerised Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union Gymnastics 7 4 2 13 come armed with anti- The Rio Olympics is time-keeping is introduced In what is one of the darkest moments in the Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy Fencing 6 5 2 13 viral condoms to combat history of the Olympics, eight Palestinian 25,000 expected to cost the Zika virus which has 1996, Atlanta: Scan-O-Vision photo terrorists entered the Olympic Village in Takashi Ono Japan Gymnastics 5 4 4 13 Estimated $4.6 billion, cast a shadow on the event fi nish camera is used Munich on September 5, 1972, and killed two N Paavo Nurmi Finland Athletics 9 3 0 Israeli athletes and took nine Israelis hostage, journalists 50% more than earlier 12 2000, Sydney: Live timing is all of whom were killed in a failed rescue attempt. thought. London 2012 Birgit Fischer Germany Kayaking 8 4 0 12 The IOC handed out introduced on the internet The terrorists had demanded the release of 200 cost $15 billion condoms fi rst in the Seoul Bjørn Dæhlie Norway Cross-country Skiing 8 4 0 12 2004, Athens: Timekeepers for the fi rst Palestinian prisoners in Israel I edition in 1988 8,400 n time also responsible for data Rio d At the Montreal Games in Shuttlecocks 2016 i Source: Omega Athens a 1976, during the fencing US is way ahead of other countries 1896 a part of the pentathlon, 10,500 MEDALS India fi rst t Country Gold Silver Bronze Total t Ukrain's Boris (Approximate) participated h e Onischenko, who was 241 US 1,022 786 697 2,505 India had its highest in the O Shooter ly ever number of part of the Soviet team, Soviet Union 396 319 296 1011 Olympics m Abhinav Bindra pic individual Olympic got his opponents, the Athletes in Paris s is the only Germany* 269 322 348 medal winners in Brits, suspicious. While an 939 India has won a individual gold in 1900, London, 2012, with electronic scoreboard was Great Britain 265 289 290 844 total of 26 medals: winner from India, represented two silver winners designed to automatically detect 9 gold, 6 silver having bagged it 306 France 214 234 258 only by Norman — Vijay Kumar in the hit of the blades, Onischenko 43 706 in the men’s 10 m Pritchard, who and 11 bronze shooting and Sushil Italy 206 175 196 577 air rifl e event in was scoring even when his sword did not Events won two silver Kumar in wrestling — and land a hit. Following the complaints of India has won 8 Beijing, 2008 China 239 171 150 560 medals in four bronze winners — the British team, game offi cials found gold medals in Saina Nehwal (badminton), athletics that his épée had a pressure pad Australia 145 169 188 502 fi eld hockey, fi ve Weightlifter Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling), Gagan 206 which when pressed sent signals 14 Hungary 175 148 169 492 consecutively Karnam Narang (shooting) and Mary Kom (boxing) to the sensors that a hit had between 1928 and Malleswari was Participating Sweden 144 168 179 491 been scored even without 1952 and the last in the fi rst Indian countries contact with the opponent. 1980. India also has woman to win *Includes figures for West Germany but not East Germany Onischenko was disqualifi ed 1 silver and a medal in the 2 bronze medals Olympics, with a in hockey bronze in Sydney, 2000 Source: International Olympic Committee, Guardian, BBC, Britannica Encyclopaedia, LA Times.
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