Rome
1960

Where?	Rome Italy
Which Olympics?	The seventeenth (summer)
How long was it?	From 25 August till 11 September
Joining countries:	83
Athletes:	5346
Whereof women:	610

After in 1908 an unsuccessfull try to be the host city of the Olympics, it succeed now in 1960. While emperor Theodosius 1567 years before these Olympics forbade the old Olympics, in Rome.

Before these Olympics was there built a brand-new stadium and other things special made, but they used old monuments in Rome too. So began the Marathon on one of Rome's hills, the Capitolinum, and finished on the Via Appia (an old Roman way) by the Bow of Constantijn. This was the very first time that a Marathon not began and finished in the Olympic Stadium.

The Olympics were opened by the Italian president: Giovanni Granchi.

Small facts:

• There participate this year many new countries too: Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan and San Marino.
  
• Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago sent this year a together team, with the name: Antilles.
  
• Nationalistic China had to participate under the name: Taiwan. That didn't want China, but after protest they participate still under the name Taiwan.
  
• This were the first Olympics which were broadcasted via the TV, worldwide.
  
• Something remarkable: this year was the Marathon runned in a new record by Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia) with naked feet.
  

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