The Firsts of Olympics

• The first Winter Olympics Games were held in Chamonix, France on January 25th 1924.

• The first Olympic Games were held in Ancient Greece in 776 B.C.

• Slovakia participated as an independent Nation at the Olympic Games for the first time in Atlanta in 1996.

• Olympic testing of athletes for anabolic steroids began in 1976.

• Norway has won more medals in total at the Olympic Games than any other nation.

• Micronesia made its first Olymthepic Games debut at Sydney, Australia in September 2000.

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• Korea marched under a single flag at the 27th Olympiad at Sydney, Australia, the first time in Olympic History.

• Iranian women competed in the Olympics for the first time at the 1996 Atlanta Games.

• In 648 B.C., horses were first introduced into sports with the entrance of riders in the Olympic Games.

• In 1912 in Stockholm, the first electric timing devices and public address system were used at  Olympics.

• The Beijing Olympics was the first to use high-definition technology for all its TV broadcasts. All events and ceremonies were transmitted with 5.1 surround sound.

• This was the first time that the IOC has sold separate broadcasting rights for television and news media such as internet and mobile technologies.

• For the first time, one organising committee (BOCOG) will handle both the Olympics and the Paralympics.