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The Seventh Olympic Games were held in Antwerp on August 14, 1920
On this day, 105 years ago, on August 14, 1920 (July 1, 1920), the Seventh Olympic Games were held in Antwerp. A generation of proud Paavo-Rumi In ancient times, all wars were stopped during the Olympic Games, but the modern Olympic Games were the opposite. World War I forced the cancellation of the 1916 Olympic Games originally scheduled to be held in Berlin. The International Olympic Committee also moved its headquarters from Paris to Lausanne, Switzerland in 1915. The citizens of Antwerp, Belgium, who experienced the baptism of war, expressed their support for the Olympic movement and their yearning for peace with their actions. They worked selflessly and soon built a stadium and other sports facilities that could accommodate 30,000 people, so that the Games could be held as scheduled. The seventh Olympic Games officially opened on August 14 (as in previous editions, some events began in April). For the first time, the colorful five-ringed flag was raised over the stadium, and the athlete's oath was taken for the first time. The famous Belgian water polo and fencing mobilizer Victor Boan took the oath on behalf of all the athletes. In memory of the Allied soldiers killed in World War I, the Olympic flame symbolizing victory and light was lit on the stadium, but the kindling did not come from Olympia, and there was no Torch Relay. That is, after Kohmenen, another new long-distance running star came into view, and he was the Finnish Paavo Rumi. At this Olympic Games, the fledgling Rumi won three gold medals in the 8,000-meter running individual and team events and the 10,000-meter running, becoming the player with the most gold medals in track and field, and thus ushered in the "Rumi era". From 1920 to 1928, he participated in the Olympic Games three times in a row, winning a total of 9 gold and 3 silver, and setting 22 world records. French player Lange, who just won the women's singles and women's doubles titles in Wimbledon, won the women's singles, mixed doubles gold and women's doubles bronze medals in this Olympic Games. From 1919 to 1925, she climbed the podium of the Wimbledon tennis champion 13 times and became the most famous female tennis player of the 1920s. Due to the lack of funds and preparation time, the Antwerp Olympic Games were not very successful, but the five-ringed flag fluttering in the wind and the burning flames on the sports field infected every peace-loving person. Tennis woman Jeroen Langelang "flying man" Charles Paddock won two gold medals for the US team in the 100-meter run and the 4X100-meter run at the Antwerp Olympic Games. American 14-year-old Ellen Riggin won the first place in springboard diving and became the youngest champion at the Antwerp Olympic Games


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