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A podium sweep is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event. At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in the Summer Olympics Athletics. [1] Many Olympic sports or events do not allow three entries into a single event in the Olympics, making a sweep impossible.
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games. The IOC ...
Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) is a scheme created by Government of India to promote sports in India. [1] In September 2014, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India started a scheme to train and promote high-performance athletes with a target of getting medals at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Each Olympic Games organising committee (except in 1904) has published an official report after the conclusion of the Games, which among other things list the results of each event. Some early reports included an overall national ranking, including those of 1908, [ 5 ] 1912, [ 6 ] 1924 (Summer [ 7 ] and Winter [ 8 ] ) and 1928 (Winter [ 9 ] ).
For the first time in Olympics history, the world saw an all-Black gymnastics podium at the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise Medal Ceremony—and no one was more thrilled than the ...
The word sweep is commonly used in North American sports such as baseball, basketball, cricket and ice hockey which have playoff or regular season series, to describe a situation where one team wins all the games in a series, for example, with a 4–0 victory in a best-of-seven series.
Super Saturday is voted Team GB's greatest Olympic moment at a summer Games since 2000 by BBC Sport readers. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best-placed athletes in each event of the 1896 and 1900 Games. [ 16 ] [ 15 ] If there is a tie for any of the top three places all competitors are entitled to receive the appropriate medal according to IOC rules. [ 17 ]