Countries are ranked firstly by the number of gold medals they have, then by the number of silver, and then by the number of bronze. Where countries have the same number of each type of medal, they are listed alphabetically and given the same ranking. Medal numbers shown in bold are the highest in their section. Greece, the host nation is highlighted in lavender. Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre— diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo 2.
Athens Olympic Tennis Centre— tennis 3. Athens Olympic Velodrome— cycling track 4. Olympic Indoor Hall— basketball final , gymnastics artistic, trampolining 5. Fencing Hall— fencing 2. Helliniko Indoor Arena— basketball, handball final 3. Olympic Baseball Centre— baseball 4. Olympic Hockey Centre— field hockey 6.
Olympic Softball Stadium— softball. Faliro Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre— volleyball beach 2. Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena— handball, taekwondo 3.
Peace and Friendship Stadium— volleyball indoor. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won in this context, a nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.
In boxing and judo, two bronze medals were awarded in each weight class, so the total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold and silver medals. During the Games the following changes in medal standings occurred: 1. Krivelyova was later stripped of her bronze for the same reason.
In , the Olympic Games returned to their birthplace in Athens, Greece. Michael Phelps won his first Olympic medals, tallying six gold and two bronze medals. Various uses of the term "Olympic" to describe athletic events in the modern era have been documented since the 17th century. The Games saw 10, athletes compete, some more than expected, accompanied by 5, team officials from countries, with medal events in 28 different sports.
Yahoo Web Search Yahoo Settings. Sign In. Search query. All Images Videos News. Local Shopping. Anytime Past day Past week Past month. The mascots were based on this clay model at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The sister and brother were named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war, and Phoebus, the god of light and music, respectively. They were inspired by the ancient daidala , which were dolls that had religious connotations as well as being toys.
For the first time, major broadcasters were allowed to serve video coverage of the Olympics over the Internet, provided that they restricted this service geographically, to protect broadcasting contracts in other areas. They were not allowed to post audio, video, or photos that they had taken. An exception was made if an athlete already has a personal website that was not set up specifically for the Games.
Focusing on the television coverage of the Games, it did provide video clips, medal standings, live results. Its main purpose, however, was to provide a schedule of what sports were on the many stations of NBC Universal. The Games were on TV 24 hours a day on one network or another.
As with any enterprise, the Organizing Committee and everyone involved with it relied heavily on technology in order to deliver a successful event.
The technical infrastructure involved more than 11, computers, over servers, 2, printers, 23, fixed-line telephone devices, 9, mobile phones, 12, TETRA devices, 16, TV and video devices and 17 Video Walls interconnected by more than 6, kilometers of cabling both optical fiber and twisted pair. It also kept the information flowing for all spectators, TV viewers, Website visitors and news readers around the world, prior and during the Games. The Media Center was located inside the Zappeion which is a Greek national exhibition center.
Between June and August , the technology staff worked in the Technology Operations Center TOC from where it could centrally monitor and manage all the devices and flow of information, as well as handle any problems that occurred during the Games. The TOC was organized in teams e.
The TOC operated on a 24x7 basis with personnel organized into hour shifts. The Olympic Flame at the Opening Ceremony. It began with a twenty eight the number of the Olympiads up to then second countdown paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat. After a drum corps and bouzouki players joined in an opening march, the video screen showed images of flight, crossing southwest from Athens over the Greek countryside to ancient Olympia.
Then, a single drummer in the ancient stadium joined in a drum duet with a single drummer in the main stadium in Athens, joining the original ancient Olympic Games with the modern ones in symbolism. At the end of the drum duet, a single flaming arrow was launched from the video screen symbolically from ancient Olympia and into the reflecting pool, which resulted in fire erupting in the middle of the stadium creating a burning image of the Olympic rings rising from the pool.
The Opening Ceremony was a pageant of traditional Greek culture and history hearkening back to its mythological beginnings.
The program began as a young Greek boy sailed into the stadium on a 'paper-ship' waving the host nation's flag to aethereal music by Hadjidakis and then a centaur appeared, followed by a gigantic head of a cycladic figurine which eventually broke into many pieces symbolising the Greek islands.
Underneath the cycladic head was a Hellenistic representation of the human body, reflecting the concept and belief in perfection reflected in Greek art. A man was seen balancing on a hovering cube symbolising man's eternal 'split' between passion and reason followed by a couple of young lovers playfully chasing each other while the god Eros was hovering above them.
There followed a very colourful float parade chronicling Greek history from the ancient Minoan civilization to modern times. Although NBC in the United States presented the entire opening ceremony from start to finish, a topless Minoan priestess was shown only briefly, the breasts having been pixelated digitally in order to avoid controversy as the "Nipplegate" incident was still fresh in viewer's minds at the time and potential fines by the Federal Communications Commission.
Also, lower frontal nudity of men dressed as ancient Greek statues was shown in such a way that the area below the waist was cut off by the bottom of the screen. In most other countries presenting the broadcast, there was no censorship of the ceremony. Following the artistic performances, a parade of nations entered the stadium with over 10, athletes walking under the banners of nations.
The nations were arranged according to Greek alphabet making Finland , Fiji, Chile , and Hong Kong the last four to enter the stadium before the Greek delegation. On this occasion, in observance of the tradition that the delegation of Greece opens the parade and the host nation closes it, the Greek flag bearer opened the parade and all the Greek delegation closed it.
Based on audience reaction, the emotional high point of the parade was the entrance of the delegation from Afghanistan which had been absent from the Olympics and had female competitors for the first time. The Iraqi delegation also stirred emotions. The country of Kiribati made a debut at these Games and East Timor made a debut under its own flag.
Many key moments in the ceremony, including the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron, featured music composed and arranged by John Psathas [20] from New Zealand. The gigantic cauldron, which was styled after the Athens Olympic Torch, pivoted down to be lit by the 35 year-old, before slowly swinging up and lifting the flame high above the stadium. Following this, the stadium found itself at the centre of a rousing fireworks spectacular.
The sports featured at the Summer Olympics are listed below. Officially there were 28 sports as swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo are classified by the IOC as disciplines within the sport of aquatics, and wheelchair racing was a demonstration sport. For the first time, the wrestling category featured women's wrestling and in the fencing competition women competed in the sabre.
American Kristin Heaston , who led off the qualifying round of women's shotput became the first woman to compete at the ancient site of Olympia but Cuban Yumileidi Cumba became the first woman to win a gold medal there. The Summer Paralympics were also held in Athens, from 20 to 28 September. The Games were concluded on 29 August The closing ceremony was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium , where the Games had been opened 16 days earlier.
Around 70, people gathered in the stadium to watch the ceremony. The initial part of the ceremony interspersed the performances of various Greek singers, and featured traditional Greek dance performances from various regions of Greece Crete, Pontos, Thessaly, etc. The event was meant to highlight the pride of the Greeks in their culture and country for the world to see. A significant part of the closing ceremony was the exchange of the Olympic flag of the Antwerp Games between the mayor of Athens and the mayor of Beijing, host city of the next Olympic Games.
After the flag exchange a presentation from the Beijing delegation presented a glimpse into Chinese culture for the world to see. Beijing University students who were at first incorrectly cited as the Twelve Girls Band sang Mo Li Hua Jasmine Flower and the medal ceremony for the last event of the Olympics, the men's marathon , was conducted, with Stefano Baldini from Italy as the winner.
The bronze medal winner, Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima of Brazil, was simultaneously announced as a recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin medal for his bravery in finishing the race despite being attacked by a rogue spectator while leading with 7 km to go.
A flag-bearer from each nation's delegation then entered along the stage, followed by the competitors en masse on the floor. Rogge had previously declared he would be breaking with tradition in his closing speech as President of the IOC and that he would never use the words of his predecessor Juan Antonio Samaranch , who used to always say 'these were the best ever Games'. Rogge had described Salt Lake City as "superb Games" and in turn would continue after Athens and describe Turin as "truly magnificent Games.
The national anthems of Greece and China were played in a handover ceremony as both nations' flags were raised. After a short cultural performance by Chinese actors, dancers, and musicians directed by eminent Chinese director Zhang Yimou, Rogge declared the Olympic Games closed. A young Greek girl, Fotini Papaleonidopoulou, lit a symbolic lantern with the Olympic Flame and passed it on to other children before "extinguishing" the flame in the cauldron by blowing a puff of air.
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