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1932 Summer Olympics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (236 words) |
 | An Olympic Village[?] was built for the first time, occupied by the male athletes. |
| Babe Didrikson[?] wins two gold medals in the javelin throw and the hurdles event, and only loses a third in the high jump because her jumping technique is ruled inferior and is placed second. |
| Finnish star Paavo Nurmi is barred from competing in the Olympic for being a professional. |
| World Almanac for Kids (1093 words) |
| 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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