After 1896, when the modern Olympic Games were organized at the suggestion of Pierre de Coubertin, they most often took place in the United States. Four times, the United States of America hosted the summer games and the same amount hosted the winter games.
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The United States Olympic Games were first held in 1904 in St. Louis. The reality of that time was such that many European athletes simply could not go there because of the high cost of travel. As a result, most of the athletes who fought for medals turned out to be Americans. An unpleasant incident of these games was the racist trick of the organizers of the games, which forced the Indians, Pygmies, Filipinos and representatives of other uncivilized, according to the Americans, peoples, to compete separately.
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The Olympic Games returned to the states only in 1932, but this time it was decided to hold the Winter Olympics, which eventually took place at Lake Placid, New York. Unfortunately, January 1932 was the hottest in the entire state in the past 147 years. This forced the organizers to use artificial snow and ice, which caused dissatisfaction with the athletes.
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In the same year, the Summer Olympic Games were held in the USA, this time in Los Angeles. During these games, national anthems in honor of the winners were performed for the first time, and another feature was that it was here that the tradition of the settlement of the participants in the games in the Olympic village was born, which is still not being violated.
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The Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley in 1960 was marked by the fact that for the first time Soviet athletes took part in games on American soil, and did it very successfully, being out of competition in the unofficial team standings. It is curious that the director of the opening ceremony of these games was Walt Disney himself.
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In 1980, the Winter Olympics returned to Lake Placid. The games were held without any special sensations and surprises, and the GDR team won, ahead of the Soviet Union team. In total, representatives of nineteen countries became owners of Olympic medals.
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Four years later, the Summer Olympic Games returned to the states, this time to Los Angeles. The competition was overshadowed by the fact that the leadership of the Soviet Union decided to ignore this Olympics in response to the US boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
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The 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta made the organizers think for the first time about a serious approach to ensuring the safety of the competition: during the games, not far from the main press center, an explosive device was fired, and injured. The games continued, but this was a great lesson to the future organizers of the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee.
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The last Olympics to date in the United States were the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002, and they were marked primarily by a huge number of all kinds of scandals. Doping and refereeing came to the fore, leaving athletes' achievements in the shadow of these events.
