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1920 Summer Olympics

The 1920 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; Dutch: Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; Dutch: Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade; German: Spiele der VII. Olympiade) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (French: Anvers 1920; Dutch and German: Antwerpen 1920), were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.

Games of the VII Olympiad
Poster for the 1920 Summer Olympics
Host cityAntwerp, Belgium
Nations29
Athletes2,626 (2,561 men, 65 women)
Events156 in 22 sports (29 disciplines)
Opening14 August 1920[1]
Closing12 September 1920
Opened by
StadiumOlympisch Stadion
Summer
Winter

In March 1912, during the 13th session of the IOC, Belgium's bid to host the 1920 Summer Olympics was made by Baron Édouard de Laveleye, president of the Belgian Olympic Committee and of the Royal Belgian Football Association. No fixed host city was proposed at the time.

The 1916 Summer Olympics, to have been held in Berlin, capital of the German Empire, were cancelled due to World War I. When the Olympic Games resumed after the war, Antwerp was awarded hosting the 1920 Summer Games as tribute to the Belgian people. The aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 affected the Olympic Games not only due to new states being created, but also by sanctions against the nations that lost the war and were blamed for starting it. Hungary, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire were banned from competing in the Games. The newly formed Soviet Union chose not to attend the Games. Germany did not return to Olympic competition until 1928 and instead hosted a series of games called Deutsche Kampfspiele, starting with the Winter edition of 1922 (which predated the first Winter Olympics).

The United States won the most gold and overall medals.

The sailing events were held in Ostend, Belgium, and two in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Host city selection

In March 1912, during the 13th session of the IOC, the bid on the behalf of Belgium to host the 1920 Summer Olympics was made by Baron Édouard de Laveleye, president of the Belgian Olympic Committee and of the Royal Belgian Football Association. No fixed host city was proposed at the time.[3]

The organizing committee was created on 9 August 1913. It had four presidents:

  • Édouard de Laveleye, president of the Belgian Olympic Committee
  • Henri de Baillet-Latour, member of the IOC
  • Robert Osterrieth, president of the Royal Yacht Club of Belgium
  • Charles Cnoops, vice-president of the Belgian Fencing Association

Among the 22 vice-presidents of the committee were people with a military or industrial background, and further people from sports organizations like Paul Havenith, president of the football and athletics club K. Beerschot V.A.C. and Nicolaas Jan Cupérus, president of the Belgian Gymnastics Federation.[4]

The first action of the committee was to send an official letter to the IOC in Paris, confirming Antwerp as the city for the Belgian Olympic bid. With Antwerp confirmed as the Olympic Games host, Belgium began reconstructing the Beerschot Stadium into the Olympisch Stadion.[5] Construction on the new Olympic stadium began in July 1919 and finished in May 1920.[6]

In 1914, a 109-page brochure was created to promote the idea of Antwerp as a host city for the Olympics: Aurons-nous la VIIème Olympiade à Anvers? (Will we have the 7th Olympiad at Antwerp?). It was sent to all IOC members and was used during the 6th Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914, where the candidacies of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Budapest, and Rome were discussed. Despite a slight preference at the time for Budapest, no final choice was made, and the outbreak of World War I soon afterwards prevented any further progress.[7]

In 1915, Lyon made a bid for the 1920 games, but after some discussion, they agreed to support Antwerp and postpone their bid until 1924 if Antwerp was liberated in time to organize the games. The support for Belgium by cousin country France, then the leading country of the IOC, also meant that Amsterdam, and Budapest, in an enemy state, made no chance for the 1920 games against Antwerp. New candidacies from American cities did not have that disadvantage and bids were received from Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Atlanta (which would eventually host the 1996 Summer Olympics), and Cuba also planned a bid for Havana. But shortly after the armistice in November 1918, the IOC decided to give Antwerp the first choice, if they still wanted to host the 1920 Games. In March 1919, the Belgian Olympic Committee decided to go ahead with the organization, and on 5 April 1919, in a meeting in Lausanne, Antwerp was officially declared the host city for the games of the VIIth Olympiad.[8]

Organization

The 1920 Summer Games organizers had very little time to prepare. The time between the IOC's decision of choosing Antwerp as the host city and the start of the Olympic Games was less than two years.[9]

An executive committee was established on 17 April 1919, with Henri de Baillet-Latour as chairman and Alfred Verdyck, the secretary of the Belgian Union of Football Clubs, as general secretary. Seven commissions were created, to deal with finances, accommodation, press relations, propaganda, schedules, transport, and festivities. Finances and scheduling proved to be the two hardest parts to tackle: the program of events only was published in February 1920, six months before the official start of the Games.[10]

Between 23 and 30 April 1920, an ice hockey tournament marked the early start of the Games. Held in the "Palais de Glace" or Ice Palace in Antwerp, it was the first time that ice hockey was an Olympic sport.[11]

The first stone of the new Olympisch Stadion was laid on 4 July 1919 by Jan De Vos, mayor of Antwerp, and inaugurated less than a year later on 23 May 1920 with a gymnastics demonstration.[12]

When the Olympic Games began, the stadium was still unfinished with some events being built over fortifications and others using existing locations. The athletes quarters were crowded and athletes slept on folding cots.[13]

The nautical stadium or Stade Nautique d'Antwerp was built at the end of the Jan Van Rijswijcklaan, using the city ramparts there as a spectator's stand. Other events, like shooting, boxing, and equestrian sports, were held at pre-existing locations in and around Antwerp and as far away as Ostend.[14]

The amount of spectators were low throughout Antwerp's Summer Olympics since not many people could afford tickets. In the closing days of the Olympic Games, students were allowed to attend the event for free.[15] After the conclusion of the Olympic Games, Belgium recorded a loss of more than 600 million francs.[16]

Highlights

  • The Olympic Games being a symbol of peace and global solidarity shone at Antwerp. These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was voiced, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and the first in which the Olympic Flag was flown to display the unity of the world's continents through its 5 rings.[17]
  • The United States won 41 gold, 27 silver, and 27 bronze medals. Sweden, Great Britain, Finland, and Belgium rounded out the five most successful medal-winning nations, with France and Belgium being the nations that fielded the most athletes, with the United States being only the third by that statistic.
  • The Games also featured a week of winter sports, with figure skating appearing for the first time since the 1908 Olympics, and ice hockey making its Olympic debut.
  • Nedo Nadi won 5 gold medals in the fencing events.
  • At the age of 72, Sweden's 100 metre running deer double-shot event champion Oscar Swahn, who had participated in the 1908 and 1912 Games, came in second in the team event to become the oldest Olympic medal winner ever.
  • 23-year-old Paavo Nurmi won the 10,000 m and 8000 m cross country races, took another gold in team cross country, and a silver in the 5000 m run. His contributions for Finland broke a record in track and field with 9 medals.
  • Duke Kahanamoku retained the 100 m swimming title he won before the war.
  • In a rather strange moment in Olympic history, the 12-foot dinghy event in sailing took place in two different countries. The final two races in the event were independently held in the Netherlands, on its own accord, supposedly because the only two competitors in the event were Dutch.[18]
  • Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense won Brazil's very first gold medal at the Olympic Games.
  • The United States sent a women's swimming team for the first time, and the Americans won seven out of seven available swimming medals.

Sports/Events

156 events[19] in 29 disciplines, comprising 22 sports, were part of the Olympic program in 1920. The Sailing program was open for a total of 16 sailing classes, but actually only 14 sailing events were contested. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.

Demonstration sport

Venues

Seventeen sports venues were used in the 1920 Summer Olympics. This marked the first time that the football tournament was spread throughout the country, which has mostly been the case since.[20]

 
Photograph of the games at Antwerp, Belgium, 1920.
Venue Sports Capacity Ref.
Antwerp Cycling (road) Not listed. [21][22]
Antwerp Zoo Boxing, Wrestling Not listed. [23][24]
Beerschot Tennis Club Tennis Not listed. [25]
Beverloo Camp Shooting (pistol/rifle) Not listed. [26]
Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal Rowing Not listed. [27]
Buiten Y (Amsterdam) Sailing (12 foot dinghy) Not listed. [28]
Gardens of the Egmont Palace (Brussels) Fencing Not listed. [29]
Hoogboom Military Camp Shooting (trap shooting, running target) Not listed. [26]
Jules Ottenstadion (Ghent) Football (Italy-Egypt match). Not listed. [30]
Nachtegalen Park Archery Not listed. [31]
Olympisch Stadion Athletics, Equestrian, Field hockey, Football (final), Gymnastics, Modern pentathlon, Rugby union, Tug of war, Weightlifting 30,000 [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
Ostend Polo, Sailing Not listed. [41][42]
Palais de Glace d'Anvers Figure skating, Ice hockey Not listed. [43][44]
Stade Joseph Marien (Brussels) Football Not listed. [35]
Stade Nautique d'Antwerp Diving, Swimming, Water polo Not listed. [45][46][47]
Stadion Broodstraat Football Not listed. [35]
Vélodrome d'Anvers Zuremborg Cycling (track) Not listed. [48]

Participating nations

 
Participants in the 1920 games, with the nations in blue participating for the first time.
 
Number of athletes

A total of 29 nations participated in the Antwerp Games, only one more than in 1912, as Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire were not invited, having lost World War I. From the newly created European states, only Estonia took part, and Czechoslovakia, succeeding Bohemia which had sent athletes prior to World War I as part of the Austrian Empire. Poland and the Soviet Union were busy with the Polish-Soviet War and therefore were unable to form an Olympic team. Argentina, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Brazil, and Monaco competed as nations at the Olympic Games for the first time. New Zealand, which had competed as part of a combined team with Australia in 1908 and 1912, competed on its own for the first time.

Participating National Olympic Committees

As the local Olympic Organizing Committee went bankrupt during the Antwerp 1920 Games, no official report of the Games was ever produced. The documents of the Games were archived at the Belgium Olympic Committee headquarters in Brussels.[50]

Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees

Medal count

 
One of the 154 (identical) gold medals awarded at the Games of the VII Olympiad

These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1920 Games. These were the first Olympics where the host nation did not win the most medals overall.

  *   Host nation (Belgium)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)41272795
2  Sweden (SWE)19202564
3  Belgium (BEL)*16121442
4  Finland (FIN)1510934
5  Great Britain (GBR)14161343
6  Norway (NOR)139931
7  Italy (ITA)135523
8  France (FRA)9191341
9  Netherlands (NED)42511
Totals (9 entries)144120120384

See also

Notes

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External links

  • "Antwerp 1920". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
  • – An article about the opening ceremonies of the 1920 Antwerp Olympiade in Flemish (archived)
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1920, summer, olympics, french, jeux, olympiques, été, 1920, dutch, olympische, zomerspelen, 1920, german, olympische, sommerspiele, 1920, officially, known, games, olympiad, french, jeux, viie, olympiade, dutch, spelen, viie, olympiade, german, spiele, olympi. The 1920 Summer Olympics French Jeux olympiques d ete de 1920 Dutch Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920 German Olympische Sommerspiele 1920 officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad French Jeux de la VIIe olympiade Dutch Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade German Spiele der VII Olympiade and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 French Anvers 1920 Dutch and German Antwerpen 1920 were an international multi sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp Belgium Games of the VII OlympiadPoster for the 1920 Summer OlympicsHost cityAntwerp BelgiumNations29Athletes2 626 2 561 men 65 women Events156 in 22 sports 29 disciplines Opening14 August 1920 1 Closing12 September 1920Opened byKing Albert I 2 StadiumOlympisch StadionSummer Stockholm 1912 Berlin 1916Paris 1924 WinterChamonix 1924 In March 1912 during the 13th session of the IOC Belgium s bid to host the 1920 Summer Olympics was made by Baron Edouard de Laveleye president of the Belgian Olympic Committee and of the Royal Belgian Football Association No fixed host city was proposed at the time The 1916 Summer Olympics to have been held in Berlin capital of the German Empire were cancelled due to World War I When the Olympic Games resumed after the war Antwerp was awarded hosting the 1920 Summer Games as tribute to the Belgian people The aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference 1919 affected the Olympic Games not only due to new states being created but also by sanctions against the nations that lost the war and were blamed for starting it Hungary Germany Austria Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire were banned from competing in the Games The newly formed Soviet Union chose not to attend the Games Germany did not return to Olympic competition until 1928 and instead hosted a series of games called Deutsche Kampfspiele starting with the Winter edition of 1922 which predated the first Winter Olympics The United States won the most gold and overall medals The sailing events were held in Ostend Belgium and two in Amsterdam Netherlands Contents 1 Host city selection 2 Organization 3 Highlights 4 Sports Events 4 1 Demonstration sport 5 Venues 6 Participating nations 6 1 Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees 7 Medal count 8 See also 9 Notes 10 External linksHost city selection EditIn March 1912 during the 13th session of the IOC the bid on the behalf of Belgium to host the 1920 Summer Olympics was made by Baron Edouard de Laveleye president of the Belgian Olympic Committee and of the Royal Belgian Football Association No fixed host city was proposed at the time 3 The organizing committee was created on 9 August 1913 It had four presidents Edouard de Laveleye president of the Belgian Olympic Committee Henri de Baillet Latour member of the IOC Robert Osterrieth president of the Royal Yacht Club of Belgium Charles Cnoops vice president of the Belgian Fencing AssociationAmong the 22 vice presidents of the committee were people with a military or industrial background and further people from sports organizations like Paul Havenith president of the football and athletics club K Beerschot V A C and Nicolaas Jan Cuperus president of the Belgian Gymnastics Federation 4 The first action of the committee was to send an official letter to the IOC in Paris confirming Antwerp as the city for the Belgian Olympic bid With Antwerp confirmed as the Olympic Games host Belgium began reconstructing the Beerschot Stadium into the Olympisch Stadion 5 Construction on the new Olympic stadium began in July 1919 and finished in May 1920 6 In 1914 a 109 page brochure was created to promote the idea of Antwerp as a host city for the Olympics Aurons nous la VIIeme Olympiade a Anvers Will we have the 7th Olympiad at Antwerp It was sent to all IOC members and was used during the 6th Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914 where the candidacies of Amsterdam Antwerp Budapest and Rome were discussed Despite a slight preference at the time for Budapest no final choice was made and the outbreak of World War I soon afterwards prevented any further progress 7 In 1915 Lyon made a bid for the 1920 games but after some discussion they agreed to support Antwerp and postpone their bid until 1924 if Antwerp was liberated in time to organize the games The support for Belgium by cousin country France then the leading country of the IOC also meant that Amsterdam and Budapest in an enemy state made no chance for the 1920 games against Antwerp New candidacies from American cities did not have that disadvantage and bids were received from Cleveland Philadelphia and Atlanta which would eventually host the 1996 Summer Olympics and Cuba also planned a bid for Havana But shortly after the armistice in November 1918 the IOC decided to give Antwerp the first choice if they still wanted to host the 1920 Games In March 1919 the Belgian Olympic Committee decided to go ahead with the organization and on 5 April 1919 in a meeting in Lausanne Antwerp was officially declared the host city for the games of the VIIth Olympiad 8 Organization EditThe 1920 Summer Games organizers had very little time to prepare The time between the IOC s decision of choosing Antwerp as the host city and the start of the Olympic Games was less than two years 9 An executive committee was established on 17 April 1919 with Henri de Baillet Latour as chairman and Alfred Verdyck the secretary of the Belgian Union of Football Clubs as general secretary Seven commissions were created to deal with finances accommodation press relations propaganda schedules transport and festivities Finances and scheduling proved to be the two hardest parts to tackle the program of events only was published in February 1920 six months before the official start of the Games 10 Between 23 and 30 April 1920 an ice hockey tournament marked the early start of the Games Held in the Palais de Glace or Ice Palace in Antwerp it was the first time that ice hockey was an Olympic sport 11 The first stone of the new Olympisch Stadion was laid on 4 July 1919 by Jan De Vos mayor of Antwerp and inaugurated less than a year later on 23 May 1920 with a gymnastics demonstration 12 When the Olympic Games began the stadium was still unfinished with some events being built over fortifications and others using existing locations The athletes quarters were crowded and athletes slept on folding cots 13 The nautical stadium or Stade Nautique d Antwerp was built at the end of the Jan Van Rijswijcklaan using the city ramparts there as a spectator s stand Other events like shooting boxing and equestrian sports were held at pre existing locations in and around Antwerp and as far away as Ostend 14 The amount of spectators were low throughout Antwerp s Summer Olympics since not many people could afford tickets In the closing days of the Olympic Games students were allowed to attend the event for free 15 After the conclusion of the Olympic Games Belgium recorded a loss of more than 600 million francs 16 Highlights EditThe Olympic Games being a symbol of peace and global solidarity shone at Antwerp These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was voiced the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace and the first in which the Olympic Flag was flown to display the unity of the world s continents through its 5 rings 17 The United States won 41 gold 27 silver and 27 bronze medals Sweden Great Britain Finland and Belgium rounded out the five most successful medal winning nations with France and Belgium being the nations that fielded the most athletes with the United States being only the third by that statistic The Games also featured a week of winter sports with figure skating appearing for the first time since the 1908 Olympics and ice hockey making its Olympic debut Nedo Nadi won 5 gold medals in the fencing events At the age of 72 Sweden s 100 metre running deer double shot event champion Oscar Swahn who had participated in the 1908 and 1912 Games came in second in the team event to become the oldest Olympic medal winner ever 23 year old Paavo Nurmi won the 10 000 m and 8000 m cross country races took another gold in team cross country and a silver in the 5000 m run His contributions for Finland broke a record in track and field with 9 medals Duke Kahanamoku retained the 100 m swimming title he won before the war In a rather strange moment in Olympic history the 12 foot dinghy event in sailing took place in two different countries The final two races in the event were independently held in the Netherlands on its own accord supposedly because the only two competitors in the event were Dutch 18 Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense won Brazil s very first gold medal at the Olympic Games The United States sent a women s swimming team for the first time and the Americans won seven out of seven available swimming medals Sports Events Edit France national football team 156 events 19 in 29 disciplines comprising 22 sports were part of the Olympic program in 1920 The Sailing program was open for a total of 16 sailing classes but actually only 14 sailing events were contested The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses Aquatics Diving 5 Swimming 10 Water polo 1 Archery 10 Athletics 29 Boxing 8 Cycling Road 2 Track 4 Equestrian Dressage 1 Eventing 2 Jumping 2 Vaulting 2 Fencing 6 Field hockey 1 Figure skating 3 Football 1 Gymnastics 4 Ice hockey 1 Modern pentathlon 1 Polo 1 Rowing 5 Rugby union 1 Sailing 14 Shooting 21 Tennis 5 Tug of war 1 Weightlifting 5 Wrestling Freestyle 5 Greco Roman 5 Demonstration sport Edit KorfballVenues EditSeventeen sports venues were used in the 1920 Summer Olympics This marked the first time that the football tournament was spread throughout the country which has mostly been the case since 20 Photograph of the games at Antwerp Belgium 1920 Venue Sports Capacity Ref Antwerp Cycling road Not listed 21 22 Antwerp Zoo Boxing Wrestling Not listed 23 24 Beerschot Tennis Club Tennis Not listed 25 Beverloo Camp Shooting pistol rifle Not listed 26 Brussels Scheldt Maritime Canal Rowing Not listed 27 Buiten Y Amsterdam Sailing 12 foot dinghy Not listed 28 Gardens of the Egmont Palace Brussels Fencing Not listed 29 Hoogboom Military Camp Shooting trap shooting running target Not listed 26 Jules Ottenstadion Ghent Football Italy Egypt match Not listed 30 Nachtegalen Park Archery Not listed 31 Olympisch Stadion Athletics Equestrian Field hockey Football final Gymnastics Modern pentathlon Rugby union Tug of war Weightlifting 30 000 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Ostend Polo Sailing Not listed 41 42 Palais de Glace d Anvers Figure skating Ice hockey Not listed 43 44 Stade Joseph Marien Brussels Football Not listed 35 Stade Nautique d Antwerp Diving Swimming Water polo Not listed 45 46 47 Stadion Broodstraat Football Not listed 35 Velodrome d Anvers Zuremborg Cycling track Not listed 48 Participating nations Edit Participants in the 1920 games with the nations in blue participating for the first time Number of athletes A total of 29 nations participated in the Antwerp Games only one more than in 1912 as Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire were not invited having lost World War I From the newly created European states only Estonia took part and Czechoslovakia succeeding Bohemia which had sent athletes prior to World War I as part of the Austrian Empire Poland and the Soviet Union were busy with the Polish Soviet War and therefore were unable to form an Olympic team Argentina the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes Brazil and Monaco competed as nations at the Olympic Games for the first time New Zealand which had competed as part of a combined team with Australia in 1908 and 1912 competed on its own for the first time Participating National Olympic Committees Argentina 1 athlete Australia 13 Belgium 336 host Brazil 19 Canada 53 Chile 2 Czechoslovakia 121 Denmark 154 Egypt 22 Estonia 14 Finland 63 France 304 Great Britain 235 Greece 57 India 5 Italy 174 Japan 15 Luxembourg 25 Monaco 4 Netherlands 113 New Zealand 4 Norway 194 Portugal 13 South Africa 39 Spain 32 Sweden 260 Switzerland 77 United States 288 Yugoslavia 15 The Dominion of Newfoundland had one competitor Eric Robertson But as the dominion had no official Olympic committee his nationality could not be confirmed and he represented Great Britain 49 As the local Olympic Organizing Committee went bankrupt during the Antwerp 1920 Games no official report of the Games was ever produced The documents of the Games were archived at the Belgium Olympic Committee headquarters in Brussels 50 Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees Edit IOC Country AthletesBEL Belgium 336FRA France 304USA United States 288SWE Sweden 260GBR Great Britain 235NOR Norway 194ITA Italy 174DEN Denmark 154NED Netherlands 146TCH Czechoslovakia 121SUI Switzerland 77FIN Finland 63GRE Greece 57CAN Canada 53RSA South Africa 39ESP Spain 32LUX Luxembourg 25EGY Egypt 22BRA Brazil 19JPN Japan 15EST Estonia 14AUS Australia 13POR Portugal 13YUG Yugoslavia 12IND India 5MON Monaco 4NZL New Zealand 4CHI Chile 2ARG Argentina 1Total 2 682Medal count Edit One of the 154 identical gold medals awarded at the Games of the VII Olympiad Main article 1920 Summer Olympics medal table These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1920 Games These were the first Olympics where the host nation did not win the most medals overall Host nation Belgium RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal1 United States USA 412727952 Sweden SWE 192025643 Belgium BEL 161214424 Finland FIN 15109345 Great Britain GBR 141613436 Norway NOR 1399317 Italy ITA 1355238 France FRA 91913419 Netherlands NED 42511Totals 9 entries 144120120384See also Edit Olympic Games portalList of IOC country codesNotes Edit Findling John E 2004 Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood p 74 ISBN 9780313322785 Factsheet Opening Ceremony of the Games f the Olympiad PDF Press release International Olympic Committee 13 September 2013 Archived PDF from the original on 14 August 2016 Retrieved 22 December 2018 Renson Roland 1996 The Games Reborn The VIIth Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Antwerp Pandora p 11 ISBN 90 5325 051 4 Renson Roland 1996 The Games Reborn The VIIth Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Antwerp Pandora p 12 ISBN 90 5325 051 4 Olympisch Stadion Olympic News International Olympic Committee 28 April 2021 Retrieved 9 May 2021 Home John Whannel Garry 2012 Understanding the Olympics Taylor amp Francis p 160 ISBN 9781317495208 Renson Roland 1996 The Games Reborn The VIIth Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Antwerp Pandora p 13 ISBN 90 5325 051 4 Renson Roland 1996 The Games Reborn The VIIth Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Antwerp Pandora p 14 ISBN 90 5325 051 4 Antwerp 1920 a symbol of peace and unity 100 years after the Games Olympic Channel Retrieved 9 May 2021 1920 Olympics Unbalanced Retrieved 9 May 2021 Renson Roland 1996 The Games Reborn The VIIth Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Antwerp Pandora pp 15 17 ISBN 90 5325 051 4 Renson Roland 1996 The Games Reborn The VIIth Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Antwerp 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