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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory The Fifth Olympic Games opened on May 5, 1912
113 years ago today, May 5, 1912 (March 19, 1912, the 1912 lunar calendar), the Fifth Olympic Games opened. The Swedish sports delegation entered the venue. The 5th Olympic Games were held in Stockholm, Sweden from May 5 to July 22, 1912. 28 countries and regions were invited to participate, with 2547 athletes, including 57 women. American athlete Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and decathlon championships in track and field competitions. For the first time, this Olympic Games will hold an art competition, covering architecture, color paintings, sculptures, music and literary works with sports and the Olympics as the theme. Coubertin's famous book "Ode to Sports" won the gold medal. When the 1904 International Olympic Committee decided to use Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, as the site of the 1912 Olympic Games, Sweden regarded it as a matter related to national honor and disgrace. They built the Korolev Sports Ground with complete facilities and advanced equipment, and experimented with electric timers and terminal photography equipment. Due to accurate timing, some outstanding results in track and field events were later recognized by the IAAF as the first official world records for their respective events. This is also the first official world records in Olympic history. At Coubertin's proposal, the competition events were also reduced to the 14 highest-level and least controversial events. Jim Thorpe of the United States is the greatest athlete at this Olympics. Not only was he a double champion in the pentathlon and decathlon, he also finished fourth in the high jump and seventh in the long jump in the individual event. His score in the decathlon was more than 700 points higher than that in the second place. However, Thorpe's name does not appear in the history of Olympic championships. Because he had played for the professional baseball team for a weekly salary of US$15 in his early years, it was revealed in the press, which denied his identity as an amateur athlete. Although Thorpe wrote to the Athletics Federation that he did not understand the rules governing amateur athletes, he played purely out of interest, not for money. However, the USAF and the U.S. Olympic Committee still recovered Thorpe's two gold medals in accordance with rigid rules, canceled his eligibility for the Olympics and the world record he set, and killed the 25-year-old's track and field career. The players who finished second in both events refused to accept the gold medals forwarded to them because Thorpe was the real number one in their hearts. In order to support his six children, this talented athlete has worked in various professions: professional baseball player, physical education teacher, fruit buyer, nurse, grave digger, dishwasher, and even became a beggar living on the streets... In 1953, Thorpe died in grief and illness. The last words he left to the world were: "Give me back the gold medal!" Thanks to the unremitting efforts of upright people in the United States, the International Olympic Committee finally passed a resolution to restore Thorpe's reputation. In 1983, the International Olympic Committee returned all medals to Thorpe's family. At this Olympic Games, Finnish long-distance runners made their mark, among which the representative figure was Kolhmainen. In addition to winning in the 10000-meter and 5000-meter, he also won the gold and silver medals in the 12000-meter individual and team events. In 1924, at the age of 31, Kolhmenin won the fourth Olympic gold medal in his sports career in the marathon. In recognition of his meritorious service, people erected a bronze memorial statue in his hometown. Based on Coubertin's suggestion, modern pentathlon was included in the Olympic Games for the first time. It includes shooting, swimming, fencing, equestrian and cross-country running. It is a comprehensive military training event, so most of the participants are military personnel. The Swede swept all but fifth of the top six places, and the fifth place was Captain George Smith Patton Jr. of the United States-the all-powerful General Patton in World War II. In the shooting competition, Sweden's Swann father and son became the target of much attention. Not only did they reach the championship podium together in the "Running Deer" team competition (an event in the shooting competition), Little Swan also won the gold medal in the "Running Deer" single shot individual competition, and his father won the silver medal in the double match. King Gukitaf I of Sweden awarded awards to athletes. Two women's swimmers were included in the competition for the first time at this Olympics. Jim Sopokolhmainen (bottom right and left) was wronged in the 5000-meter final. Swann and his son News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/122q.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.28-06:41] 访问:80
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