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Before the Great Depression (1929)
1896 - First Olympic games in Athens. 14 nations, 241 athletes and 9 sports.
1899 - Barcelona Football Club was founded.
1900 - 2nd Olympic Games in Paris.
1902 - Real Madrid Football Club was founded.
1903 - Atlético de Madrid Football Club was founded.
1903 - First Tour de France (bicycle race)
1904 - 3rd Olympic Games in St.Louis.
1908 - 4th Olympic Games in London.
1909 - First Giro d'Italia (bicycle race).
1912 - 5th Olympic Games in Stockholm.
1916 - 6th Olympic Games were cancelled due to WWI.
1920 - 7th Olympic Games in Belgium.
1921 - Winter Olympic Games were created.
1924 - 8th Olympic Games in France.
1928 - 9th Olympic Games in Netherlands: 46 nations, 2883 athletes and 14 sports.
1929 - Spanish Soccer League was created with ten teams
WWII and post-war (1930's & 1940's)
1932 - Los Angeles Olympic Games
1936 - Berlin Olympic Games
1940 - Tokyo Olympic Games cancelled. Helsiki Olympic Games also cancelled.
1944 - London Olympic Games: Cancelled by war
1948 - London Olympic Games.
1948 - First Paralympic Games.
SPORT HEROES
Duke Kahanamoku: (1890 – 1968) was a Hawaiian athlete who is called the inventor of modern surfing. He was also on the United States Olympic team as a swimmer, and won several silver and gold medals.
Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) was a martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of Aikido.
George Herman Ruth, Jr. "Babe Ruth" (1895 - 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.
Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) was a Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.
Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games. He was the most successful athlete at the games and, as a Black man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy".
Joe Louis (1914-1981) nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time.
Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.
Revolution (50's & 60's)
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1950: Inaugural season of the Formula One
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1950 World Cup hosted by Brazil, won by Uruguay
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1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland
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1952 Winter Olympics held in Oslo, Norway
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1954 World Cup hosted by Switzerland, won by West Germany
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1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia
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1956 Winter Olympics held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
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1958 World Cup hosted by Sweden, won by Brazil (with Pelè)
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1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy
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1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley Ski Resort, California, United States
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1962 FIFA World Cup – hosted in Chile, won by Brazil
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1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan
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1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
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1966 FIFA World Cup – hosted and won by England
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1966: Real Madrid won its 6th European Cup
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1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico
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1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France
Sport Celebrities:
Pelé: He was a soccer player, played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time. Pelé has also been known for connecting the phrase "The Beautiful Game" with football. According to the IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful league goal-scorer in the world, scoring 1281 goals in 1363 games, which included unofficial friendlies and tour games.
Ferenc Puskas: He was a prolific forward, he scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary, and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues.
Alfredo di Stefano: He was a footballer and coach, who has been called the best, most complete and influential footballer of all time. He was a powerful, quick, skillful, and prolific forward, with great stamina, tactical versatility, creativity, and vision, who could also play almost anywhere
Rocky Marciano: He was an American professional boxer who competed from 1947 to 1955, and held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956. Known for his relentless fighting style, stamina, and an iron chin, Marciano has been ranked by many boxing historians as one of the best heavyweight boxers of all time.His knockout-to-win percentage of 87.75 remains one of the highest in heavyweight boxing history.
Sugar Ray Robinson: He was an American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the one of the greatest boxer of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year.
Muhammad Ali: was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. He set an example of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He remains the only three-time lineal heavyweight champion, having won the title in 1964, 1974 and 1978.
Bill Russell: He is a basketball player. Russell played center for the Boston Celtics of the NBA from 1956 to 1969. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a twelve-time All-Star, he was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty, winning eleven NBA championships during his thirteen-year career.
Willie Mays: He is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who spent almost all of his 22-season career playing for the New York and San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets.
Wilt Chamberlain: He was an American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in NBA history.[
Generation X (70's & 80's)
1972 - Olympic Games in Munich
1972 - Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan
1976 - Olympic Games in Montreal
1976 - Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck
1978 - First Ironman Triathlon
1980 - Olympic Games in Moscow
1980 - Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid (US)
1982 - Football World Cup in Spain. Italy beat West Germany (3-1)
1984 - Olympic Games in Los Angeles
1984 - Winter Olympic Games in Sarajero
1986 - Football World Cup in Mexico. Argentina beat West Germany (3-2)
1988 - Olympic Games in Seoul
1988 - Winter Olympic Games in Calgary (Canada)
Mark Spitz
Mark “The shark” Spitz is an American former competitive swimmer, nine-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in 7 events. He was born in 1950. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, an achievement surpassed only by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Spitz set new world records in all seven events in which he competed in 1972.
Milennials (90's & 00's)
1990 - Football World Cup in Italy
In professional wrestling, the boom period of the WWF from the late 1980s continued until 1993
1992 - The US National Hockey League would expand from 21 to 30 teams.
1992 - Olympic Games in Barcelona (Spain)
1993 - The Ultimate Fighting Championship (1993) and Pride Fighting Championship (1997) debut and evolve into the modern sport of Mixed Martial Arts.
1994 - 15th World Cup hosted by the USA
1996 - Olympic Games in Atlanta
FA Cup, Premier League of the treble won an unprecedented Manchester United1999 - and Champions League after defeating Bayern Munich 2–1 in May 1999.
2000 - Sydney Games
2002 - Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games
2004 - Athens Olympic Games
2006 - Turin Winter Olympic Games
2008 - Beijing Olympic Games
Michael Phelbs
Michael Phelps is an American retired competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). When he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps had already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games by winning six gold and two bronze medals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.
A new time (2010's)
2010 - FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Spain won the competition.
2012 - UEFA Cup hosted by Poland and Ukraine. Spain won the competition.
2012 - London Olympic Games
2014 - FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Germany won the competition.
2016 - Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
2018 - FIFA World Cup in Russia. France won the competition.
2020 - Tokio Olympic Games
Lionel Messi
Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and regarded by many as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record-tying five Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he won consecutively, and a record five European Golden Shoes. He has spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he has won 32 trophies, including nine La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles, and six Copas del Rey. Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most official goals scored in La Liga (398), a La Liga season (50), a club football season in Europe (73), a calendar year (91), El Clásico (26), most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League (8), as well as those for most assists in La Liga (159) and the Copa América (11). He has scored over 660 senior career goals for club and country.