#1952 summer olympics

[inthedarktrees]

Mary Freeman Swimming Champion

Hank Walker, “The Diligent Mermaid,” Life, Jul 23, 1951

#life magazine #mary freeman #vintage #1950s #1950s fashion #50s #swimming #swimmer #1952 summer olympics #competitive swimming #50s fashion #vintage fashion #black and white #photography #photo restoration

[the-olympics-olympics]

Both of the Games that these mascots represented were historically significant in their own ways - for better or worse.

Magique's Olympics were the last time the Winter Olympics were held the same year as the Summer Olympics; beginning in 1994 they would have the Olympics every two years, alternating Summer and Winter. It was also the first Olympic Games since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany. Five of the former Soviet republics competed as a "Unified Team", and Germany competed as a single nation for the first time since 1952.

Waldi's Olympics were notable for different reasons. The most well-known event at the Munich 1972 Games was a terrorist attack known as the "Munich Massacre", after which competition was suspended for 34 hours for the first time in Olympic history. The Games weren't all tragic, of course; Munich 1972 marked the Olympic debut of influential gymnast Olga Korbut, and Mark Spitz's record-setting seven gold medals in a single Olympics - a record that stood until Michael Phelps in 2008.

#mascots #olympics #tournament #poll #design #round two

[factsweird]

The legendary polo player Petre Mshvenieradze with his grandson, 1990. He was a Soviet water polo player of Georgian descent who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

[gobblefunk-the-gremlin]

Have you heard of Sergio Marelli?

Italian basketball player who competed in the 1952 summer Olympics?

Nope, never heard of the guy.

[brandongenovesi]

Baseball's Long Road at the Olympics

The invention of the American sport of baseball is often credited to Abner Doubleday in 1839, though the game can be traced back as far as the 18th century. By the 1860s, baseball had taken on the title of the “nation’s pastime.” Major League Baseball formed in 1876 and the sport has spread throughout the country, and the world, ever since. While the sport has a long, rich history in the United States, baseball’s inclusion at the Olympics has been sporadic.

Baseball was first featured on the Olympic stage during the 1904 Summer Olympics in Saint Louis, Missouri, the first modern Olympics held on American soil. However, the sport’s inclusion was unofficial, not even constituting a demonstration sport, and there is little recorded information about what games were played.

Baseball was not included during the 1908 games in London, but was featured as an official demonstration sport in Stockholm at the following summer games. The program consisted of a single game played between the US and Sweden at Stockholm’s Ostermalm Athletic Grounds. America raced out to a 5-0 lead after two innings and sealed the game, which lasted six innings, with 8 runs in the fifth inning for a 13-3 victory.

Baseball did not feature at the Olympics again until 1936, again appearing as a demonstration event. This time the US Olympic team faced the “World Champions,” who were in fact a second team of American players. The World Champions broke a tie in the bottom of the seventh inning, winning 6-5 in front of 90,000 spectators at Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

Once again, Olympic officials and host nations elected not to continue or expand the baseball program. Pesäpallo, a Finnish variant of baseball, was featured as a demonstration sport at the 1952 games in Helsinki, and host nation Australia chose baseball as a demonstration event in 1956. The game between the US and Australia, an 11-5 win for the Americans, was the first baseball game between international teams in 44 years. The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo represented the fifth and final time the Olympic baseball program would consist of a single demonstration game.

Two decades later, the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles brought baseball back as a demonstration sport, but this time with a full program. Baseball was a full demonstration sport again in 1988 before joining the Olympic program as an official sport in 1992.

The Barcelona Olympics saw Cuba become the first ever gold medalists in baseball, defeating Chinese Taipei 11-1 in the final game. Japan defeated the US 8-3 to win bronze. Cuba defended its gold medal at the Atlanta games in 1996 and placed first for a third time in 2004. Gold medals went to the US and South Korea in 2000 and 2008, respectively.

Baseball was not featured at the 2012 London or 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, but returned in 2020. Host nation Japan defeated America 2-0 to win gold, while the Dominican Republic secured bronze.

There is no women’s baseball program at the Olympics. However, softball joined baseball as an Olympic event during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The US women’s team won three consecutive gold medals before losing 3-1 to Japan during the 2008 gold medal game in China. Japan again defeated the US, by a score of 2-0, to win gold in 2020.

The International Olympic Committee has announced that neither baseball nor softball will feature at the 2024 games in Paris. The 2028 games have been scheduled for Los Angeles.

#Brandon Genovesi

[scotianostra]

Happy birthday to Olympic gold medallist, Allan Wells, born May 3rd 1952 in Edinburgh.

Allan was schooled at Fernieside Primary School and then Liberton High School. He left school at age 15 to begin an engineering apprenticeship. The teenager was active in athletics from a young age and was initially a triple jumper and long jumper. In his first season of athletics in 1970, he won the Scottish junior triple jump title.

He took a break from athletics for a few years while he focused on his training as a marine engineer. He returned to athletics at the relatively late age of 24 yet proceeded to become one of the finest European athletes of his era. He won two golds at the 1978 Commonwealth Games but his biggest success was at the Summer Olympics in 1980 when he clinched the gold in the 100m.

There is a brilliant quote from Wells when he was asked after the victory if he had run the race for Harold Abrahams, the last 100 metre Olympic winner from Britain who had died two years previously, Wells replied, "No, ... I would prefer to dedicate this to Eric Liddell".

Allan also won a silver in the 200 metres in Moscow.

Following the Moscow Olympics, there was some suggestion that Wells's gold medal had been devalued by the boycott of the games. Wells accepted an invitation to take on the best USA sprinters of the day, among others, at a track meeting in Koblenz in Germany. Less than two weeks after the Moscow gold, Wells won the final that included Americans.

He went on to beat the Americans again in meetings in 1981, including the fastest 100 metres of that year which had been set by Carl Lewis.

Wells holds the prestigious position of being Scottish Athletics’ most successful athlete, in the Commonwealth games, winning four gold, one silver and one bronze for Scotland over two Commonwealth Games. He topped the Scottish all-time list of top Games athletes across all sports until the Gold Coast 2018 Games when lawn bowler Alex Marshall claimed top sport by winning his fifth Commonwealth Games gold, but it's hardly in the same league as athletics. Liz McColgan is Scotland’s top female athlete with two gold and a bronze from two Games.

On retiring from sprinting Wells went on to coach the Olympic Bobsleigh team.

In June 2015, a BBC documentary, Panorama: Catch Me If You Can,uncovered allegations by Wells' former teammate of historical doping by the 1980 Olympic 100m champion, beginning in 1977, he forcefully denies the allegations.

[gibier3000]

We came across this old photo of John Tickle calling at our house in Hornsey, north London, to enquire whether my older brother John Stevens was available to act as his mechanic for a trip to a race circuit in Spain. My brother was at work at the time but our Dad used this as an opportunity to practise his newfound retirement hobby of photography. John Tickle’s business career in later years is reasonably well documented but I thought it might be useful to fill in a little of the earlier years. I asked my brother for memories of the Tickle connection and this is how he recollects the events of 60 years ago. John Tickle was born 1936 and the 1939 register shows the family in Sutton Road, Muswell Hill N10. He attended Tollington Grammar School and was in the school swimming set, as was my brother. John Tickle was so good that he was selected for the British swimming team at the 1952 Olympics but unfortunately a bout of influenza put paid to that. My brother didn’t get to know Tickle then, because they were in different year groups and of course a lower year wouldn’t presume to talk to a higher year and an upper year wouldn’t deign to converse with a lower year. It was only after schooldays were over that a mutual friend introduced them, because John Tickle needed a mechanic for his Manx Norton and brother John was an engineering apprentice with the Napier company that made the Deltic engines that the diesel railway locos got their name from. Brother John helped Tickle out at various English circuits at weekends, then used a summer holiday to accompany Tickle to some continental circuits, Mouscron, Mettet and Zandvoort. Up till then, John Tickle had raced a solo bike but striking up a friendship with a Dutch sidecar racer converted him to chair racing, with his wife Cathy as passenger. In those days it was still mostly a matter of bolting a sidecar chassis onto a solo bike. The sleek purpose-built integral racing outfits were yet to appear on the scene. Thereafter, John Stevens’s mechanicking tailed off, as he now had a fulltime job. John & Cathy Tickle became well known round the circuits, home and abroad, as a privateer. He developed a business supplying Manx Norton spare parts, initially from premises at 163 Potters Bar High Street and subsequently expanding to a factory in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.

#motorcycle #sidecar #kneeler #side car #racing #England #UK #United Kingdom

[richardnixonlibrary]

#Nixon50 #OTD 8/3/1972 President Nixon met the extraordinary athlete Ollie Matson and family in the Oval Office. The occasion of the visit to the White House was for the President to congratulate Mr. Matson on his nomination for membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is also in the College Football Hall of Fame. In addition to his career in football, Matson won two Olympic medals for track and field events in the 1952 Summer Olympic Games. (Image: WHPO-9722-12)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.21 (after 1940)

1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians. 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes. 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933. 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. 1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes. 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes. 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO. 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. 1970 – San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event. 1980 – Cold War: American President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War. 1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships 1989 – Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people. 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. 1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. 2006 – The social media site X (former Twitter) is founded. 2019 – The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others. 2022 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.

#Events

[valkyries-things]

HELEN STEPHENS // ATHLETE

“She was an American athlete and a double Olympic champion in 1936. When she was 18, she participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics, there she won the 100m final and anchored the American 4 x 100m relay team that won the Olympic title after the leading German team dropped its baton. She was propositioned by Adolf Hitler after the race but refused. She retired from athletics shortly after the games and played professional baseball and softball. From 1938 and 1952, she was the owner and manager of her own semi-professional basketball team; she was the first woman to own and manage a semi-professional basketball team. She lived the majority of the rest of her life with her partner, Mabel O. Robbe.”

#female history #lgbt history

[wikiuntamed]

Five steps of Wikipedia for Tuesday, 5th December 2023

Welcome, أهلا بك (ahlan bika), dobrodošli, witamy 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Jacob Meindert" to "1960 Summer Paralympics". 🪜👣

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#FiveStepsOfWikipedia #GemsOfWikipedia #WikiQuest #WhatDoesWikiSay

[project1939]

Life magazine, August 4th, 1952. The Summer Olympics in Helsinki continue to get ample coverage in the press. What seemingly gets the most attention is the "Cold War Games." Who is better, the U.S. or the U.S.S.R.? This kind of thing went on for decades at sporting events between the two.

#project1952 #1952 #1950s magazines #project1952 day 53

[chrismikhak]

A Look at Olympic Medal Counts by Country

While the origins of the Olympic Games extend back more than 3,000 years, to ancient Greece, the modern event started in Athens in 1896. The international athletic competition has been held consistently since this time, though individual events have been canceled or delayed due to wars and other global incidents. Since 1994, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games have been held as alternating events, taking place every two years. More than 200 countries have sent at least one athlete to a Summer or Winter Olympics, winning thousands of combined medals.

When looking at the Olympics as a single event, combining sports from the Summer and Winter programs, the five most successful countries are the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, Great Britain, and France. While hundreds of nations have increased their medal count over the years, just over 100 countries have managed to secure a gold medal.

The United States leads both the overall and gold medal counts, at 2,976 and 1,180, respectively, prior to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike many nations’ medal tables, America’s medal count decreases from gold to silver to bronze, with 959 silver medals and 837 bronze medals. Other nations, which competed at the Olympics between 1952 and 1991, have similar tables. In contrast, most countries have more bronze than silver, and more silver than bronze.

As the Olympics’ most accomplished nation, America has dominated several programs. The country has excelled at track and field events, though as the largest Summer Olympics program, track and field often makes up the majority of a nation’s medal count at the Summer Games. Behind track and field, wrestling and shooting each add 15 medals, including three golds each. That said, basketball is America’s most dominant sport, with a combined men’s and women’s record of 218-9.

America, and Germany are two of the only nations with more than 1,000 Olympic medals, followed by Great Britain at 966 and France at 909. France has a significant lead on Italy, the sixth most successful nation at the Olympics, with 139 additional medals. However, the gold medal gap is just nine.

For some fans, analysts, and athletes, gold is all that matters. America maintains a healthy lead of more than 700 gold medals. The gap between No. 3, Germany, and No. 4, Great Britain, is less than 50 medals, while the People’s Republic of China has 16 more gold medals than Italy, despite trailing Italy’s total medal count by 68. Canada ranks No. 13 overall but would fall to No. 18 based on gold medals.

In some cases, particularly with smaller nations that excel in one or two specific programs, a country’s medal table is heavily weighted toward gold medals. The Bahamas, for example, has won eight gold medals, 50 percent of the nation’s 16 total medals. All but one of the country’s golds have come from track events.

National medal tables look different when separating the Summer and Winter Games. The United States falls to No. 2 when considering only the Winter Games. Norway edges out the United States in both total medals, 404 to 321, and gold medals, 147 to 111. Germany retains its No. 3 position, followed by Austria and Canada.

The Summer Olympics are more indicative of the overall medal count, though Great Britain edges out Germany with 53 more golds and 78 more medals overall.

#Chris Mikhak

[lboogie1906]

Catherine Hardy Lavender (Catherine Hardy) (February 8, 1930 – September 8, 2017) was an athlete who competed mainly in the 100-meter dash. She won an Olympic gold medal in the 4 × 100 meters relay at the 1952 Olympic Summer Games in Helsinki. She was born in Carroll County, Georgia, the third of eight children born to Ernest and Emma Hardy. After graduating from Carroll County Training School at age 16, she wanted to attend Tuskegee Institute. Her family was a farming family of limited means, so she attended Fort Valley State College instead. Though West Georgia College was only a few miles from her home in Carrollton, schools were still segregated and as an African-American, she had to look elsewhere to attend college. She continued playing basketball and enjoyed it. Raymond Pitts, the track coach at Fort Valley, encouraged her to look into the track. She agreed, and in 1949, she ran and won her first race at the Tuskegee Relays. Two years later, she won the AAU indoor meet in New York City, winning the 50-yard dash and setting a new American record. From 1951 to 1952, she made All-American. In 1952, she received her BS in Business Education. After graduation, she trained hard in preparation for AAU events and the Olympic tryouts. At the AAU, she was a triple winner, winning the 50-yard dash, as well as the 100- and 200-meter races. She was offered coaching positions in the North but chose to enter her field of study—education—in Atlanta. There she settled, marrying the late Edward Wright Lavender, Sr. in 1956, and bearing two children. She continued teaching, having a career that lasted over 30 years. She retired in 1986 to care for her aged mother who had Alzheimer's disease. After her mother died in 1987, she returned to education by substitute teaching in the Atlanta Public Schools system. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZpTcWrvXi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[fuzzysparrow]

Which sports brand was founded by the Humphreys brothers?

Umbro is an English sports brand founded in 1924 by the brothers Harold and Wallace Humphreys. The name is a portmanteau of 'um', from 'Humphreys', and 'bro' from 'brothers'. The brand specialises in football and rugby sportswear, which feature their Double Diamond logo.

The brothers began the business in a pub in Cheshire, where they used a small cupboard as their workshop. When the brand grew in popularity, they moved to an office in Wilmslow. Umbro's first claim to fame was the 1934 FA (Football Association) Cup final where both teams - Manchester City and Portsmouth - wore kits designed and manufactured by the company.

The 1950s saw Umbro make international success. In 1952, the British team at the Helsinki Summer Olympics wore Umbro kits. Following this, Umbro supplied kits for the British Olympics team for the next 20 years. In 1957, Umbro branched out into the tennis market, producing sports clothing, and in 1958, Brazil won the football (soccer) World Cup while wearing Umbro kits. England also wore Umbro kits when they won the cup in 1966.

Umbro is the official supplier and sponsor of numerous football teams including the national football teams of Benin, Botswana, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Somalia.

#Trivia #Umbro

[bethelbaptistchurch]

Bethel Baptist Church

Baptist Church has been meeting in Spanaway, WA since 1952. Spanaway is a city of 19,000 people, on the border of Tacoma and Puyallup. We are five miles from the beautiful Pacific Ocean and just 25 minutes away from Seattle's airport.

Bethel Baptist Church is a vibrant, growing church with a heart for the community of Spanaway. We have been blessed to plant a daughter church, Bethel Chinese Baptist Church (BCBC), on the other side of town.

In 2008 we experienced an incredible time of growth and revival in our church: for the first time we had more than 100 in worship on Sunday mornings. In 2008 we also completed construction on our Christian Education building. We are a strong, growing church that has been blessed with many wonderful people.

Our church is active in helping plant other churches, supporting missionaries both in our area and around the world, and working with the local community of Spanaway to help meet their needs. 

We are also united with three other churches in the Olympic District of the Northwest Baptist Conference (NBC). The Olympic District is an NBC district that stretches from Hoquiam to Seattle. The Olympic district is led by Rev. Gregg Billing, of the Bellingham Japanese Baptist Church.

Each summer we spend two weeks involved with our NBC District Youth Camp at Camp Sound on Orcas Island. During this time the youth and leaders of Bethel, BCBC, Bellingham Japanese Baptist Church, and First Chinese Baptist Church enjoy each other's company and learn about God's love for them.

We are a church that is proud of our local roots and proud of our mission to reach those in need. We are especially proud that we have taken the time to get to know each other and become friends, both in the small group time of Bible study and in our community service.

Bethel Baptist Church is led by Pastor Carl Jenkins who also serves as one of our pastors on staff at Bethel's sister church in El Cajon, California - Reverend Carl Jenkins Jr. Pastor Jenkins has been with Bethel since 1995.

Bethel Baptist Church is part of the International Fellowship of Christian Churches and Affiliates, which includes The Churches of Christ, as well as others in some countries. The Fellowship is also known as "The First American Church" and "The Disciples Movement".

OUR CONNECTIONS AND DEVOTIONAL SERVICES

The congregations at Bethel Baptist Church are united as a family in Jesus Christ, who worships there. All members of our churches participate in the daily programs and activities together.

We believe in the sanctity of human life and we place special emphasis on protecting the life of unborn children, which is why we hold weekly prayer circles to support those who are pro-life.

We cooperate with other churches, such as Bethel's sister church in El Cajon (CA) and (World Harvest Outreach Center in Yakima, WA to provide programs, seminars, and outreach.

Bethel's congregations hold weekly services on Sundays at 10:00am and 6:00pm.

Our church currently meets in a High School gymnasium where we can accommodate a family of 1,000 plus easily. The school we use is located at 826 E Redondo Ave, Spanaway, WA 98387.

Conclusion

Bethel Baptist Church is a vibrant, growing church with a heart for the community of Spanaway. We have been blessed to plant a daughter church, Bethel Chinese Baptist Church (BCBC), on the other side of town.

Please visit the site of one of our supporters.

22306 Mountain Hwy E, Spanaway, WA 98387

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