1896 Athens

 1900 Paris

 1904 St. Louis

 1908 London

 1912 Paris

 1920 Antwerp

 1924 Paris

 1928 Amsterdam

 1932 Los Angeles

 1936 Berlin

 1948 London

 1952 Helsinki

 1956 Melbourne

 1960 Rome

 1964 Tokyo

 1968 Mexico City

 1972 Munich

 1976 Montreal

 1980 Moscow

 1984 Los Angeles

 1988 Seoul

 1992 Barcelona

 1996 Atlanta

 2000 Sydney

 2004 Athens

  Humor Guy's Funnies

Olympic Games- 1964 Tokyo

Olympic Games- 1964 Tokyo

My memory of the Tokyo Olympics is getting up early to watch the Television - no VCR back in those days.  What still haunts me is the theme tune - Tokyo melody.

American swimmer Don Schollander won four gold medals. Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia became the first repeat winner of the marathon - less than six weeks after having his appendix removed. Russian rower Vyacheslav Ivanov won the single sculls for the third time, and Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser won the 100m freestyle for the third time.

Al Oerter of the United States did the same in the discus throw despite a cervical disc injury that forced him to wear a neck harness and torn rib cartilage incurred a week before the competition. Hungarian water polo player Dezso Gyarmati won his fifth medal in a row.

Another Hungarian, Greco-Roman wrestler Imre Polyak, finally won a gold medal after finishing second in the same division at the previous three Olympics. By winning two medals of each kind, Larysa Latynina of the Ukraine brought her career medal total to an incredible 18. She is also one of only four athletes in any sport to win nine gold medals.

It was wonderful, joyous news that ' Lyn the Leap' won the long jump.  There is a well known syndrome that teenage boys try and emulate their heros, they pretend to score winning goals, or smash balls to the boundary.  Well this teenager - Guy Thomas, literally came down to earth with a bump.  Even with my longest run-up I could not jump from the white board actually into the sand pit.  Still, as long as Lyn the Leap soared over 8 meters - I didn't care that I could not jump 8 ft.

 Lynn DAVIES                (GBR)   8.07m.
2. Ralph BOSTON               (USA)   8.03m.
3. Igor TER-OVANESYAN         (RUS)   7.99m.