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Helsinki celebrates Olympic 50th Anniversary (1073 words) |
 | Then, to a great surge of applause, the Olympic torch, borne aloft, was carried into the stadium by Lasse Virén, winner of the 5,000 and 10,000 metres in the Munich and Montreal Olympics, having been transported the whole length of the country from Finnish Lapland (home of the midnight sun) by a relay of runners. |
| There was a performance by massed choirs of the 1952 Olympic Hymn followed by a cavalcade of tableaux depicting Finnish culture from 1952 to the present day. |
| The Games of the XV Olympiad were the biggest up to that time with 149 medal events, and a total of 4,925 athletes from 69 nations. |
| THE OLYMPIC GAMES IOC HISTORY | OLYMPICS WORLD RECORD LINKS | SOLAR NAVIGATOR WORLD ELECTRIC NAVIGATION CHALLENGE. (2733 words) |
| Although the ancient Olympic games were first recorded in 776 BC, they originated at least a century before that and possibly as early as the 13th century BC. |
| Even after the glory that was Greece vanished, the Olympics lived on, but in a debased form under the Romans, who replaced the traditional games with their own gladiatorial contests, in which slaves replaced free-born Greeks as the competitors. |
| Its primary responsibility is to supervise the organisation of the summer and winter Olympic Games. |
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