United States at the Olympics
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The United States of America has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics, during which it led a boycott. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States.
From 1896 to 2018 inclusive, U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,522 medals (1,022 of them gold) at the Summer Olympic Games, the most of any nation, and another 305 at the Winter Olympic Games, the second most behind Norway.
Hosted Games
The United States has hosted the Games on eight occasions, more than any other nation, and is planning to host the ninth:
Games | Host city | Dates | Nations | Participants | Events |
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1904 Summer Olympics | St. Louis, Missouri | July 1–November 23 | 12 | 651 | 91 |
1932 Winter Olympics | Lake Placid, New York | February 7–15 | 17 | 252 | 14 |
1932 Summer Olympics | Los Angeles, California | July 30–August 14 | 37 | 1,332 | 117 |
1960 Winter Olympics | Squaw Valley, California | February 2–20 | 30 | 665 | 27 |
1980 Winter Olympics | Lake Placid, New York | February 13–24 | 37 | 1,072 | 38 |
1984 Summer Olympics | Los Angeles, California | July 28–August 12 | 140 | 6,829 | 221 |
1996 Summer Olympics | Atlanta, Georgia | July 19–August 4 | 197 | 10,318 | 271 |
2002 Winter Olympics | Salt Lake City, Utah | February 8–24 | 77 | 2,399 | 78 |
2028 Summer Olympics | Los Angeles, California | July 21–August 6 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Medal tables
- Red border color indicates host nation status.
Medals by summer sport Leading in that sport
Updated on October 1, 2017 *This table does not include two medals – one silver awarded in the ice hockey and one bronze awarded in the figure skating events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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Medals by winter sport Leading in that sport
Updated on March 10, 2018 *This table includes two medals – one silver awarded in the ice hockey and one bronze awarded in the figure skating events at the 1920 Summer Olympics. |
Flagbearers
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Amateurism and professionalism
The exclusion of professionals caused several controversies throughout the history of the modern Olympics. The 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was discovered that he had played semi-professional baseball before the Olympics. His medals were posthumously restored by the IOC in 1983 on compassionate grounds.[3]
The advent of the state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the Eastern Bloc countries eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put the self-financed amateurs of the Western countries at a disadvantage. The Soviet Union entered teams of athletes who were all nominally students, soldiers, or working in a profession, but all of whom were in reality paid by the state to train on a full-time basis.[4][5][5] As a result, the Olympics has shifted away from pure amateurism, as envisioned by Pierre de Coubertin, to allowing participation of professional athletes.
See also
References
- ↑ Warren Wofford was the flagbearer in the (Equestrian) parade in Stockholm for the Olympics Equestrian Sports Association events held there because a quarantine imposed on horses prevented equestrian events from taking place in Australia
- ↑ The first female flagbearer for the United States at the Olympics
- ↑ "Jim Thorpe Biography". Biography.com. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ↑ "The Role of Sports in The Soviet Union - Guided History". blogs.bu.edu.
- 1 2 "Info" (PDF). www.cia.gov.
External links
- "United States of America". International Olympic Committee.
- "Results and Medalists — United States". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
- "United States". Sports-Reference.com.