Olympic Games

Antwerp, 1920

Antwerp is located in Belgium.
In Antwerp 1920, the Olympic flag was introduced, as was the Olympic oath.
Ice hockey made its first appearance at the 1920 Antwerp Games, before the first Winter Olympics in 1924.
Charley Paddock, the American sprinter who won the 100m in 1920, died in a plane crash in 1943 while serving as a captain in the US Marines.
Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey were not invited to these Games as they were on the wrong side of the Great War.
Distance runner Paavo Nurmi won three medals for Finland.
Figure-skating events were held for the second time, and ice hockey for the first.
American Eddie Eagan, who was a boxing champion in the 1920 Games, became the only person to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Games, with gold at the 1932 Lake Placid Games in the team bobsled event.
Philip Noel-Baker of Great Britain takes the silver in the 1500-meter dash; he later became the only Olympian ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.