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View Poll Results: Be honest, did you actually know St. Louis had hosted the Olympic Games prior to this post?
Yes 12 75.00%
No 4 25.00%
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Old 10-28-2015, 11:21 AM
 
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Paris (1900) and Saint Louis (1904) almost destroyed the Olympic Movement before it had a chance to grow...
Paris redeemed itself in 1924, and the US redeemed itself with the 1932 LA Games.

Outside of the Munich Massacre, most olympic historians call the Saint Louis Games "the Worse Olympics Ever"
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Old 10-28-2015, 03:52 PM
 
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Paris (1900) and Saint Louis (1904) almost destroyed the Olympic Movement before it had a chance to grow...
Paris redeemed itself in 1924, and the US redeemed itself with the 1932 LA Games.

Outside of the Munich Massacre, most olympic historians call the Saint Louis Games "the Worse Olympics Ever"
Yeah, Atlanta was such an inspiration to the world! The Olympics/Olympic committee are almost FIFA level...

Try to be less lame with your St. Louis attacks please, you were better before... Most historians, pfftt...
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Old 10-28-2015, 04:05 PM
 
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The 1904 St. Louis olympics were the first time gold, silver and bronze medals were assigned to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers.
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Old 10-29-2015, 05:40 PM
 
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Yeah, Atlanta was such an inspiration to the world! The Olympics/Olympic committee are almost FIFA level...

Try to be less lame with your St. Louis attacks please, you were better before... Most historians, pfftt...
Doesn't really take a lot of effort. But take heart, Rio is on track for a major cluster F.

Richard Rothschild: Ranking the five best and five worst Summer Olympic Games - More Sports - SI.com

ww.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-1904-olympics-were-craziest-event-ever-held/

https://books.google.com/books?id=bu...0louis&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=8a...0louis&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=Qm...0louis&f=false
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