At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a rugby event was contested. Only two teams competed, so the tournament consisted of one game—a straight final, with a score of Australasia 32, Great Britain 3
Rugby, Men
Gold:
Silver:
Australasia Phillip Carmichael Charles Russell Daniel Carroll John Hickey Francis Bede-Smith Christopher McKivatt Arthur McCabe Thomas Griffen John "Jumbo" Barnett Patrick McCue Sydney Middleton Thomas Richards Malcom McArthur Charles McMurtrie Robert Craig
Great Britain Edward Jackett J. C. Solomon Bertram Solomon L. F. Dean J. T. Jose Thomas Wedge James Davey Richard Jackett E. J. Jones Arthur Wilson Nicholas Tregurtha A. Lawrey C. R. Marshall A. Wilcocks J. Trevaskis
Four years later the 1900 SummerOlympics in Paris attracted more than four times as many athletes, including 11 women, who were allowed to officially compete for the first time, in croquet, golf, sailing, and tennis.
At the end of the 1908 marathon the Italian runner Dorando Pietri was first to enter the stadium, but he was clearly in distress, and collapsed of exhaustion before he could complete the event.
The 2008 SummerOlympics are to be held in Beijing, China.
The winter Olympics were begun in 1924 and were held in the same year as the summer games until the 1994 winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, when the alternating cycles began.
The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, reflected a changed political landscape: the 172 participating nations and territories included the Unified Team (with athletes from 12 former Soviet republics), a reunited Germany, and South Africa, which was allowed to compete for the first time since 1960.
The Olympic games are competitions of individual athletes, not of nations, and the IOC does not keep national scores; however, the media of all nations report national standings according to one of two scoring systems.
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