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16th session
Summer Olympics
It was held in Melbourne, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956. In 1949, the International Olympic Committee in
Roman
The 44th plenary session was held to vote for the host site of the 16th Olympic Games, with Melbourne narrowly winning by one vote
Buenos Aires
(the capital of Argentina) was awarded the right to host the Olympic Games for the first time in Oceania, and it was the first time that the Games were held in the Southern hemisphere. And both before and during the competition, the Melbourne Olympic Games has always been surrounded by various incidents, becoming the most troubled Olympic Games in the history of the Olympic Games.
- Chinese name
- 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne
- Foreign name
- The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games
- Holding time
- November 22 - December 8, 1956
- Race type
- general
- Participating countries and regions
- 72
- Number of participants
- 3314
- session
- 16
- Last session
- 1952 Helsinki Olympics
- Next session
- 1960 Rome Olympics
- Special meaning
- The Olympic flame has arrived in Oceania for the first time
catalogue
- 1Bidding process
- 2event
- 3Overview of the competition
- 4Competition culture
- 5Conference focus
- ▪Different venue
- ▪Multinational abstention
- ▪Refuse to participate
- ▪"Blood in the water"
- 6Competition venue
- 7Participating member
- 8Olympic torch
- ▪Torch profile
- ▪Back story
- 9Opening ceremony
- ▪outline
- ▪Winner of three - Cuthbert
A total of 10 cities applied to host the Games, all of them except Melbourne
America
. They are: The capital of Argentina
Buenos Aires
, the capital of Mexico
Mexico City
, Canadian
Montreal
And American
Detroit
,
Los Angeles
,
Minneapolis
,
San Francisco
,
Philadelphia
,
Chicago
Nine cities. The 1949 IOC Executive Board meeting decided that Melbourne would host the event
Oceania
The Olympic Games were held for the first time after Europe and America.
Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia
Sydney
It was the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia from 1901 to 1927. The city is located in Port Phillip Bay
Yarra
Kou, is a port city and seaside resort. The meeting was originally scheduled for February, at the height of the Australian summer. However, the International Olympic Committee believes that this is the rest period of most national athletes, which is not conducive to creating excellent results. After consultations, it was decided that the session would be held from 22 November to 8 December 1956. It was the latest Olympic Games ever held, and in order to accommodate this unprecedented Olympic date, athletes were forced to adjust their training and competition cycles in 1956.
Also different from previous Olympic Games, the equestrian competitions were held on another continent
Stockholm
Do it in advance. This was because at the 1951 Vienna annual meeting of the International Olympic Committee, Melbourne suddenly proposed that it could not include equestrian events in the Games. Because according to Australian law, after the entry of livestock, must go through six months of quarantine, and equestrian competition horses, are carried by the rider and often trained horses, the implementation of six months of quarantine, will interrupt the training, can not compete. Later, after the International Olympic Committee failed to negotiate with the Australian government over the entry of horses, it was decided to move the equestrian events to Stockholm, Sweden, with the remaining events unchanged as originally planned. So, for the first time in Olympic history, the Games are actually taking place in different places at different times.
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Track and field
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basketball
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boxing
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fencing
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weightlifting
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wrestling
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equestrianism
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soccer
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gymnastics
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rowing
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Shoot
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sailboat
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canoe
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bicycle
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Hockey ball
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Modern pentathlon
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Australian rules football
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event
The 16th Olympic Games were held in Melbourne, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956. The Games were held in two places, with the exception of the equestrian events held in Stockholm and the remaining events held in Melbourne.
A total of 72 countries and regions participated in the Melbourne Olympic Games, with 3,314 athletes, including 376 female athletes. The Stockholm equestrian competition was held from June 11 to 17, with 158 athletes from 29 countries and regions, including 13 women. The first countries and regions to participate in the Olympic Games (including Stockholm) are Kenya, Cambodia (only participated in equestrian events), Liberia, Malaysia (now Malaysia), Uganda, Fiji, Ethiopia. Egypt, Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland all competed in Stockholm. The countries with the largest number of athletes participating this year are the United States with 298, Australia with 287 and the Soviet Union with 283. Ten cities are bidding to host the Games: Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montreal, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Chicago.
In 1949, the IOC Executive Board decided to host Melbourne. Oceania hosted the Olympic Games for the first time after Europe and America. Originally scheduled for February 1956, the session was rescheduled for late November and December 1956. However, Australia has a strange rule that animals must be quarantined for six months after entering the country. In the end, the International Olympic Committee was only able to find a new place to hold the equestrian events, and Stockholm, Sweden, was awarded the honor.
The opening ceremony was held on the afternoon of November 22, 1956, in the main stadium with 104,000 spectators. The flame from Olympia was delivered by plane for the first time, covering a total of more than 20,000 kilometers. The Olympic flame was lit by the famous Australian track and field athlete R. Clark. He set 17 world records in long-distance running, but won only one bronze medal in the 1964 (18th) 10,000m, known as the Olympic Games
Clarke phenomenon
.
There are still 17 sports in the Games. For the first time in an event, butterfly was separated from breaststroke. Sweden won three gold MEDALS in equestrian. V. Coutts of the Soviet Union won the 5,000m and 10,000m, becoming the first Soviet runner to win an Olympic gold medal in distance running. Australian women's track and field athlete B.J. Morrow won three gold MEDALS each, and the Soviet Union's V. Chukalin and V. Muratov won the gymnastics competition three times each. The two female gymnasts who won the most gold MEDALS were A. Keletti of Hungary and L. Latynina of the Soviet Union, each with four first MEDALS. L. Latynina became the second athlete after P. Nurmi of Finland to win nine Olympic gold MEDALS, and her total of gold, silver and bronze MEDALS (18) is the most ever at an Olympic Games.
A total of 56 Olympic records and 16 world records were broken in track and field, swimming, weightlifting, shooting and cycling. The Soviet Union won 37 gold MEDALS, five more than the United States, and for the first time surpassed the United States in both gold MEDALS and informal team points.
On December 8, 1956, the closing ceremony of the General Assembly was held, and the entry of athletes was adopted by athletes from all countries, regardless of nationality, according to the competition event, and entered hand in hand.
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The image publicity elements of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games include emblem, torch, poster, postcard, stamp and so on.
Related information can be found in the photo album.
Olympic medal
The motif on the front of the medal was designed by Florentine artist Cascioli
Goddess of victory
On the right is engraved the words "Melbourne 1956-16th Olympic Games", with the Roman Colosseum in the background. On the back of the medal, an Olympic champion is surrounded by a jubilant crowd. The Olympic Stadium is in the background.
medal
From 1928 to 1968, the Olympic MEDALS kept the same design. It was not until the 1972 Olympics that the Munich Organising Committee broke with the original design and adopted it
Bauhaus
Gerhard Max, a representative of the architectural school (
Gerhard Marcks
), changed the back of the medal design.
The equestrian competition was held from June 10 to 17, with 158 athletes (including 13 women) from 29 countries and regions participating in the competition. Before the games, the opening ceremony, the lighting of the Olympic flame and the oath of athletes were held, including the lighting of the Olympic flame in the main stadium by Swedish rider HansWikne on horseback. The whole thing is like an independent Olympic Games. Therefore, despite the success of the equestrian competition, it was criticized by public opinion that the hosting of the same Olympic Games by two countries would destroy the integrity of the Olympic Games, and hoped that similar situations should not be repeated in the future.
Olympic flame
About to ignite, the world is sitting on a huge powder keg - the international situation under the influence of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, is in turmoil. In the summer of 1956, Poland was unstable; At the end of October 1956, the Soviet Army invaded Hungary. Asia has exploded
Suez Canal War
The Soviet Union sided with Egypt, while the United States, France, and Britain supported Israel.
As a result, the 1956 Games were threatened even before they began: Egypt, Israel, Iraq and Lebanon withdrew from the games during the war;
Franco
Under the military regime
Spain
The Netherlands, which protested against the Soviet invasion of Hungary, also abstained. The most dramatic was Switzerland, which hesitated to protest against sending troops to Hungary until it decided to compete in Melbourne, 12 days before the games opened. However, the decision was made too late, the ticket was difficult, and it was impossible to arrive before the check-in deadline.
For the Chinese people, the 1952 Olympic Games was a good start, but the 1956 Olympic Games was a pity. Under the influence of the Cold War situation, the International Olympic Committee admitted
People's Republic of China
Agree on one hand
Taiwan
With"
Republic of China
To participate in the 1956 Olympic Games, the All-China Sports Federation announced on November 6, 1956 that it would not participate in the games after repeated negotiations in vain. Brundage, then president of the International Olympic Committee, used the almost miraculous method of combining the two divided Germans and the independent state of Saarland into a unified German team, a method that was also intended for China, but ultimately failed.
The first captain of the Chinese national gymnastics team
Lu Enchun
"Missing out on the Olympic Games in 1956 is the regret of my life," he said. In 1956, in the gymnastics trials of the 16th Olympic Games, Lu Enchun won the runner-up of the individual all-around, parallel bars and pommel horse, and was eligible for the Olympic Games, and became one of the first batch of 49 athletes in China.
On October 23, 1956, the Hungarian men's water polo team and the Soviet men's water polo team competed for the championship, in which many players fought, resulting in blood, and the Hungarian team ended the game with 4: 0 won the gold medal against the Soviet Union, and the media named it "Blood in the Water" after the game because of the scene of Hungarian water player Erwin Zador bleeding in the right corner of the eye after the game.
Melbourne does not have a modern large sports ground, in order to meet the Olympic Games, the city of Melbourne decided to spend 250,000 pounds to expand a stadium originally used for cricket and Australian Rules rugby as the main venue, another cost 1.25 million pounds to build the Olympic Park including swimming pool, track and field, cycling and hockey fields, cost 20,000 pounds to build the Olympic Village. Other events are held in existing venues.
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Competition venue
A total of 72 countries and territories participated in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Among them, Ethiopia, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Malaya, North Borneo and Uganda are all participating in the Olympics for the first time. In addition, West Germany and East Germany for the first time formed a team to participate in the Olympic Games under the name of Germany United. Taiwan sent 21 male athletes to compete in track and field, weightlifting, shooting, basketball and boxing.
Athletes from Cambodia, Egypt, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland competed in the equestrian events only in Stockholm, Sweden, so the Olympic teams from these countries did not appear in Melbourne.
In 1956, the GDR was admitted as a member of the International Olympic Committee, and the two German teams negotiated to form the German team. The Chinese Olympic Committee did not send a team. A total of 883 athletes from 61 countries and regions participated in the track and field competitions, setting 28 Olympic records, including 5 world records. American male sprint star Robert Morrow, known as "White Owens", was the standout, winning a total of three gold MEDALS in less than 10 days. Australia's Abe Cuthbert matched Morrow in women's track and field. Interestingly, she and Moreau also competed in the 100 m, 200 m and 4×100 m relays, also running the last leg and also winning their third gold medal on December 1.
This Olympic Games
German Democratic Republic
and
Federal Republic of Germany
Joint team competition, eye-catching. At the 1955 Paris Annual meeting, the IOC voted by 27:7 that the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany must form a joint team to participate in the 1956 Olympic Games, or the recognition of the Federal German Olympic Committee was suspended. However, the GDR and the Federal German Federation jointly formed a group, using the black, red and yellow tricolor flag with the five-ring symbol as the league flag, with the"
Symphony No.9 in d minor
The "Ode to Joy" in "Ode to Joy" is the group song.
Although the International Olympic Committee has temporarily solved the problems of the Democratic Republic of Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany, it is also faced with the confusion of the China problem. At the 1954 IOC annual meeting in Athens, the All-China Sports Federation was recognized as the Chinese Olympic Committee by a vote of 23:21, but at the same time the so-called "ROC Olympic Committee" in Taiwan was retained, setting a precedent of recognizing two national Olympic Committees in one country. The IOC later made a decision to allow the two Olympic Committees to participate in the 16th Olympic Games at the same time, and stipulated that the names used by the two teams were "Taiwan China" and "Beijing China".
On November 17, 1956, the IOC Executive Board discussed the China issue and later unanimously agreed that protests on political grounds should be ignored. Some members even suggested that China should form a joint team like the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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It was carried from Olympia to Athens by 350 torchbearers. Some characteristic activities were designed along the way. For example, at the Acropolis in Athens, two soldiers dressed in battle suits blocked the path of the torchbearer on the relay route, and the torchbearer was only allowed to pass if he said, "I brought the flame from Olympia." The flame was stored in two flame lamps and flown to Australia. On the way, ceremonies were held in Kolkata, Bangkok, Singapore and Jakarta. The Melbourne Olympic Torch Relay was the longest torch relay in Olympic history. The total distance is about 20,820 kilometers (including air distance), the actual transmission distance is 4912 kilometers, and the number of torchbearers is 3608. The last torchbearer was world junior track and field champion RON. Oh, Clark. This is the first Olympic torch relay to be held in the southern hemisphere.
Torch
Since the equestrian events of the 1956 Olympic Games were held in Stockholm, there were also events from Olympia to
Stockholm
The torch relay. A total of 330 torchbearers, including about 160 riders, took part in the relay through Denmark to Sweden.
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At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the flame was collected in front of the Temple of Hera at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece, followed by the torch relay. This tradition continues today. Sixteen Summer Olympic Games have held flame lighting ceremonies here.
The torch lighting ceremony for the Winter Olympics began in 1964 and was also held at the site of ancient Olympia, but it was held in front of the monument of Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, unlike the Temple of Hera, the lighting point of the Summer Olympics. Twelve Winter Olympic Games have been held in ancient Olympia. The lighting of the winter Olympic flame is much the same as the lighting of the summer Olympic flame, and so are the actors who play the priestesses. The Ancient Olympia site is a place where the ancient Olympic Games were held in the ancient Greek city-states from more than 2700 years ago to more than 1600 years ago, with sports facilities such as stadiums, arenas, athletes' dormitories, and several religious monuments such as the altar of Zeus, the god of the gods, and the temple of Hera, the diva. Later, due to religious conflicts, earthquakes and theft by Western archaeologists, the deities and buildings of the site were destroyed, and only a piece of ruins remained, similar to the Old Summer Palace in China. Since 1936, when the Olympic flame was lit for the Berlin Games, 28 summer and Winter Olympic Games have been lit at the site of ancient Olympia. As Greece is a sunny country, the Olympic torch lighting ceremony on the day is basically blue skies and sunshine. But it seems the Australians were not in the favour of Apollo, the sun god, at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 and in 2000
Sydney
When the Olympic torch lighting ceremony is held in the Olympic Games, the day is always because
Overcast sky
We didn't get the spark. We had to move it up a day
rehearsal
The ritual takes the flame instead.
'These are the only two instances of bad luck so far, both of which have been caught by the Australians,' said Hellenic Olympic Committee news director Christophe Papaharisto. He said he had attended many Olympic flame lighting ceremonies, although the high priestess chose the best time to light the flame, depending on the weather conditions. However, there are many variables in the collection ceremony, even if the weather is clear on the day of the fire, if there is a cloud over the firearm, it will cause the fire is not smooth. "Because the whole ceremony is very compact, it cannot be postponed or waited indefinitely," Papaharisto said. "Moreover, the time of direct sunlight at noon is not very long." The torch for each Olympic torch relay is usually designed by the host city. Torches designed by different countries generally reflect their own characteristics, such as the Sydney Olympic Torch in 2000, which immediately reminds people
Sydney Opera House
The shape of the Athens Olympic torch is very much like an olive leaf symbolizing peace, and the shape of the Beijing Olympic torch is similar to a Chinese painting and calligraphy scroll.
Before the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the torch held by the High Priestess was always provided by the host country, just like the torch held by ordinary people taking part in the torch relay. The torch is also collected by the Olympic Committees of each host country after it is lit.
By the time of the Barcelona Games, the Greeks believed that the torch used by the high priestess to light the Olympic flame should be different. The famous Greek jewelry designer Elias Lallaounis was inspired by the pillars of the Temple of Hera and made a silver torch shaped like an inverted temple pillar. Four such torches were made, one of which was given to the collection of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the other three were kept by the Hellenic Olympic Committee.
The torch that the high priestess is holding to light the flame is a torch designed by a Greek designer. Since the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, the torch held by the high priestess at every flame lighting ceremony has been this torch designed by a Greek designer.
According to tradition, before the opening of each Olympic Games, after the Greek Olympic Committee obtains the torch at the ancient Olympia site, it usually carries out the torch relay in Greece first, which lasts for three or five days. However, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic torch handover ceremony was the shortest since 1936, and the only one that did not pass through Greece. Hellenic Olympic Committee news director Papaharisto said that when the U.S. Olympic Committee arranged the torch relay in the United States, it said that anyone willing to donate a certain amount of money can participate in the torch relay, and the money will eventually be used for a charity. However, the Hellenic Olympic Committee felt that the practice of charging people to participate in the torch relay was contrary to the Olympic spirit, and after unsuccessful negotiations with the Los Angeles Olympic Committee, it was decided that the high Priestess would not carry out the torch relay in Greece after receiving the flame at the Olympia site, in order to express its dissatisfaction with the United States. Papaharisto said that when the high priestess handed the flame to the International Olympic Committee officials and then to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing committee, the entire ceremony was over in just a few minutes, making it the shortest time in the history of the Olympic flame lighting and handover ceremony. One of the bravest torchbearers still lives in memory was the 60-year-old Greek javelin thrower Pelakos Christos.
Christos was the last torchbearer to carry the Olympic flame for the 1968 Mexico City Games in Greece. At that time, he had already participated in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and was a strong medal contender. He is scheduled to run the final leg in the Greek port of Piraeus before handing the flame over to the Mexico City organizing Committee, from where it will sail to Mexico on the same route Columbus took to discover the New World.
While Christos was carrying the torch, an accident happened. torchlit
Liquefied gas
appear
leak
", all the way to Christos's arm, the flame in an instant also burned into his hand. According to Christos afterwards, he was thinking that this was the Olympic flame passed to the Mexican people, and he could not throw away the flame, so he endured severe pain and insisted on running the whole way to pass the torch to the Mexican people.
Christos was the best javelin thrower in Greece at the time, but his arm was badly injured and he had to abandon the Olympics.
In order to thank Christos for ignoring his own safety and successfully passing the Olympic flame to Mexico, the Mexico City Olympic Organizing Committee invited Christos to attend the opening ceremony of the Mexico City Olympic Games as a special guest and receive the best treatment in Mexico. So Christos watched the games in Mexico City with a bandage on his hand.
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Flame lit by Australian track and field athlete Ron Clarke
Athlete representative Oath: Australian Track and field athlete John Landy
At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Cuthbert won the 100 - and 200-meter individual sprints and a gold medal in the 400-meter relay. At the age of 18, she was immediately hailed as a national hero by Australian elders and nicknamed the "Golden Girl". At one event in 1960, she was forced to pull a muscle after just one match. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, she rallied to win the 400-meter dash, which she said afterward was the best race of her life. Cuthbert is the only Olympic triple champion in the 100 -, 200 - and 400-meter sprints. In the eight years between 1956 and 1964, she broke or equaled world records 18 times in seven events, including the 60 meters, 100 yards, 200 yards, 400 meters, and 44x100, 4x220 relay. In 1979, Cuthbert was diagnosed with complex sclerosis. In 2000, Cuthbert attended the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in a wheelchair and was one of several Olympic torchbearers.
In the marathon, Alain Mimoun (French track and field athlete) was up against Emil Zotobek (Czechoslovakia track and field athlete), who had always beaten him, and at the halfway point of the race, Mimoun's lead was not clear. He ended up winning by a minute and a half. Finally, he could be at the finish line to watch his old friend finish his race on the sixth lane.
Murray Rose (Australian swimmer), only 17 years old, won three gold MEDALS. He won his first gold medal with his teammates in the 4x200m freestyle relay, setting a world record. He went on to win the 400m and 1500m freestyle.
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In track and field, only two world records were broken for both men and women. The Soviet Union's Alexander Coutts won the 5,000m and 10,000m, while the United States won most of the other track and field events.
In the swimming competition, the dominant American team was unexpectedly defeated by the host country Australia. Australia won eight gold MEDALS. Hungary won the water polo championship for a second time.
In the gymnastics competition, the Soviet team composed of the famous male athletes Chukalin, Shahelin and Azaryan and the female players Latynina, Manina and Muratova won most of the championships. The Hungarian women's team won the women's team championship and the apparatus championship.
competition
The United States basketball team maintained its unbeaten record since 1936 and India won the hockey title for the sixth time in a row.
Pa McCormick of the United States won the springboard and platform diving titles again, becoming the only female athlete in Olympic history to win two gold MEDALS in board and platform diving.
The top three athletes in this Olympic Games are: the Soviet Union first, with a total of 37 gold MEDALS, 29 silver MEDALS and 32 bronze MEDALS. The United States came in second with 32, 25 and 17 MEDALS. It was the first time the Soviet Union had surpassed the United States in gold MEDALS. Australia came in third with 13, 8 and 14 MEDALS.
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rank
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Country or region
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Gold medal
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Silver medal
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Bronze medal
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total
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1
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37
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29
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32
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98
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2
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32
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25
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17
|
74
|
|
|
3
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13
|
8
|
14
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35
|
|
|
4
|
9
|
10
|
7
|
26
|
|
|
5
|
8
|
8
|
9
|
25
|
|
|
6
|
8
|
5
|
6
|
19
|
|
|
7
|
6
|
7
|
11
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24
|
|
|
8
|
6
|
7
|
11
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24
|
|
|
9
|
5
|
3
|
5
|
13
|
|
|
10
|
4
|
10
|
5
|
19
|
|
|
11
|
4
|
4
|
6
|
14
|
|
|
12
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
7
|
|
|
13
|
3
|
1
|
11
|
15
|
|
|
14
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
|
|
15
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
6
|
|
|
16
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
|
|
17
|
1
|
4
|
4
|
9
|
|
|
18
|
1
|
4
|
1
|
6
|
|
|
19
|
1
|
3
|
1
|
5
|
|
|
20
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
4
|
|
|
21
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
5
|
|
|
22
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
3
|
|
|
23
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
24
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
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25
|
1
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0
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0
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1
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The closing ceremony was innovative. The closing ceremony of the conference was held on December 8, 1956, when most of the completed delegations had already returned home, and there were not many remaining players. In order to make the closing ceremony compact and warm, the Chinese-Australian player Wen Qiangsen suggested that the athletes enter to break the national order, mixed with each other regardless of nationality. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) initially disagreed, but finally, faced with reality, agreed, but only if at least 400 people participated. On the night of the closing ceremony, all the remaining contestants participated, and the closing ceremony was more warm and touching than any other. This innovation, which broke the international estrangement and symbolized human cooperation and peace, was warmly accepted by the public, and athletes from all over the world marched hand in hand. It became the biggest feature of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games and was imitated by other Olympic Games in the future.
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In the 1950s, the Japanese men's gymnastic performance was particularly good, which attracted wide attention. Some people think that the Japanese used to sit cross-legged on the floor when entering the house, and make flexibility exercises into life. Some European experts believe that the Japanese like to eat
rice
It may be that rice contains nutrients that are particularly useful for gymnastics. During the 16th Olympic Games, those who hold this view are even more enthusiastic. He even cited a "secret story" from two years ago when the Japanese team participated in the world competition. People thought that the Japanese team was in order to control their weight before the game, but later learned that they ate a special meal of rice in the dormitory. As a result, the Japanese team came close to the Soviet team for the first time and won the team runner-up. Don't you know, the original time
Japan
The team is in
dormitory
In the head of five to and director Yuanshan personally master cooking, held the Japanese national tradition of "Zhuang food meeting" to boost morale.
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Let me give you a word -4MM, refers to a limit mark, that is, in four minutes to run one
Glitter tie
The 1500 meters of the Olympic Games not only created excellent competition results, but also left a lot of touching stories, 4MM black tie in
Olympic spirit
Under the glow, shining.
Taungwanmi
World record
When Kuz of the Soviet Union, the record-holder, came to Melbourne for the Olympics, someone wrote in a local newspaper: Can 'robots' win against athletes with brains? Noooo! In the battle of wits, an athlete like Kuz can't win."
Why should a world record holder be ruled unwinnable even before the race?
It turned out that a few months before the opening of the Olympic Games, in a competition, the simple and honest Kuz in the game to eat a loss, fooled, lost the game. By the time the 1956 Melbourne Olympics came around, it was clear to the newspaper writers that long-distance running required not only physical strength, but also mental capacity, which Kutz lacked.
So will Kuz lose again? Does he really have no brains? We'll wait and see.
Speaking of the 1956 Olympics
basketball
The game, we have to mention the United States team, their invincible performance shocked everyone at that time. On this American team, there is a man who has stood out, a man who has changed the traditional concept of basketball. Oh, Russell.
But in order to participate in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the basketball superstar made a decision that surprised others. What was it?
Speaking of "on the pitch"
Black Spider
"Do you know who it is? What do you think of when you think of football in the Soviet Union? Do you know what this has to do with the Olympics?
"Red Guard" is about one of the greatest players in football: Lev Leif. The story of Yashin. In people's memory, Yashin is associated with a series of honors, he won five times the Soviet League championship, three times the Soviet Cup championship, an Olympic championship, a European Championship, a Soviet ice hockey League championship, a European Footballer of the Year, three times to participate in the World Cup... And a three-time Olympian!
Fall in love at first sight
In the coxless sculls final of the 16th Olympic Games, Ivanov of the Soviet Union won the gold medal. As he stepped off the podium, he threw his gold medal into the air to express his excitement. Every time he tossed it, the audience cheered. Who knows, when he threw the gold medal into the air again, due to excessive force, the Angle tilted, the gold medal fell into the lake. Later, his coach and other athletes dived into the lake to recover the gold medal, but failed to recover it. From then on, Ivanov's mood plummeted, and he was sad all day long. The leaders of the International Olympic Committee did not have the heart, and finally decided to give him a replica of the gold medal.
Before the games, the sacred Olympic torch was mocked. Australian university students, unable to witness the Olympic pageantry and the long and winding route of the traditional torch relay, decided to stage a prank protest. They held their own torch ceremony at Sydney City Church, holding aloft a "torch" made of a short broomstick, old sauce trousers and a pair of men's underwear marked with an inverted Y-shaped opening on the front. Larkin, 20, who invented a replica of the Olympic torch, ran all the way to the mayor's city church in their government-mandated white coats.
At York Street, the fake torchbearers who had suddenly lost their nerve turned and fled, and Larkin re-lit the torch to continue their plan. The officials were duped, and the photographer and six motorcycle guards thought he was the real torchbearer. Larkin ran up the steps of the city church and handed the torch to the unsuspecting mayor.
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Torch gate
The event was talked about by many media, and even some newspapers pointed out acerbically that because of the excessive political problems in the pre-Games preparation process, "God began to doubt the sanctity of the Olympic Games."
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