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The 2020 Summer Olympics were held in Japan from 23 July to 8 August 2021 after being postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2,402 medals were won by 2,175 athletes in 339 events at the Games. [1]
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports. [2]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Nadeem became the first Pakistani to win an Olympic medal in Athletics, by winning an Olympic gold medal. [55] He is also the first Pakistani athlete to win an Olympic gold medal for an individual sport. [56] He not only claimed the men's javelin throw title but set a new Olympic record of 92.97 m in the ...
Tokyo became the first city in Asia to hold the Summer Olympic Games twice. [g] The 2020 Games were the second of three consecutive Olympics to be held in East Asia, following the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and preceding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Due to the one-year postponement, it is the only Olympic ...
For a name as powerful as a gold medal, consider Athena, embodying wisdom and strategy like the goddess of ancient Greek mythology, and paying homage to the site of the first Olympic games in 1896.
Since the Olympic men's football was restricted to an under-23 tournament in 1992, Brazil had played in two gold medal matches, losing to Mexico in 2012 before prevailing at home in 2016. Spain also had played twice in such occasion, winning in 1992 – also when they hosted the Olympics – and losing to Cameroon in 2000.
Never mind that she leaves Paris with 14 career Olympic medals, including nine gold, and joined Michael Phelps as the only swimmers to ever win the same event in four different Games.