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formed a part of the World’s Fair, lasting for four and a half months,
and the foreign athletes participated only in 42 of 94 events. Three of these events, but also about 300 other competitions, mostly held within a programme entitled “The Anthropological Days” (for non-white athletes), are forever eradicated from the IOC history. One of them was women’s boxing, while men’s boxing and the freestyle wrestling that also had their debut at the St. Louis Games survived until the present day. However, one Afro-American, George Poage, took part in the official programme and won the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles race. For the first time the athletes marched behind their national flags. Serbia and Montenegro did not participate. Candidate cities: Buffalo and Chicago, who had won the organisation, but at the suggestion of the US president Theodore Roosevelt it was decided that the Games would be moved to St. Louis. |
 The most successful athlete: Ray Ewry (USA) defended three track-and-field golds |
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1 - Aquatics swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming 2 - discontinued events 3 - This event used to be on the Olympic programme, and today it is a sport with its own independent international federation, but it is no longer on the programme of the Games. |
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