The first summer Olympics were after WWI and they were opened in Belgium only 18 months after the Armistice. This set of Olympics was the first summer Olympics that they would release pigeons at the opening ceremonies. Also that’s when they put the interlocking rings to represent the Olympic oath. The five rings represent five different continents and those continents are Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the North America and South America.
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Some of the sports in this Olympics were; 400 meters swimming, middle weightboxing, bantam weight boxing, 100 meter hurdel and ice hockey. During the summer Olympics Canada's ice hockey team came out with a 15-0 win against Czechoslovakia. They also bet the United States twice which gave them the gold medal in ice hockey around the 1920's. Ice hockey was put into the winter olympics later on in 1924.
I didn't realize that ice hockey was in the summer Olympics. Do you know how many hockey teams competed in the Olympic games that Canada won?
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