London 1908 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

27 Apr 1908

End:

31 Oct 1908

Countries:

Athletes:

2008

Sports:

Events:

110

City:

London, Great Britain

Rome and Milan - both Italy and Berlin, Germany were candidate cities, and the 1908 Olympics were awarded to Rome, as Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the IOC President, had wished.
However, Vesuvius volcanic eruption in 1906 canceled Italian plans to stage Olympiad.
In the same 1906 year London, Great Britain was named the new host city.

His Majesty King Edward VII officially opened the Games of the 4 Olympiad at the new Olympic Stadium with a capacity of 68 thousand people built in the shortest terms.
First in the Programme of competition of the Summer Olympic games was included a winter event - figure skating.
Winners of competitions received gold medals, the prize diploma, and a bunch of oak leaves from Windsor Forest.
At a service in St.Paul's Cathedral on Jule 19, Bishop Ethelbert Talbot of Philadelphia said the famous phrase: "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to participate..."