歷屆奧運回顧：1956年墨爾本奧運會

第16屆奧運會于1956年11月22日在可容納10.4萬人的墨爾本主體育場正式開幕。宣布盛會開幕的是澳總督愛丁堡公爵。來自奧林匹亞的火種首次利用飛機傳遞，行程共約2萬多公里。這是歷屆奧運會舉辦時間最晚的一次，多數國家運動員仍要適當地調整自己的訓練計劃。

KEY FACTS

Opening date: 22 November 1956

Closing date: 08 December 1956

The Host City: Melbourne (Australia)

Sports: 17

MELBOURNE 1956 Games of the XVI Olympiad

Melbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympics by one vote over Buenos Aires. Australian quarantine laws were too severe to allow the entry of foreign horses, so the equestrian events were held separately in Stockholm in June. The Melbourne Games were the first to be held in the southern hemisphere. Laszlo Papp of Hungary became the first boxer to win three gold medals. American Pat McCormick won both diving events, just as she had in 1952.

Two athletes dominated the gymnastics competition. On the men's side, Ukrainian Viktor Chukarin earned five medals, including three gold, to bring his career total to eleven medals, seven of them gold. Agnes Keleti of Hungary brought her career total to ten medals by winning four gold medals and two silver.

The U.S. basketball team, led by Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, put on the most dominant performance in Olympic history, scoring more than twice as much as their opponents and winning each of their games by at least 30 points. U.S. weightlifter Paul Anderson weighed 137.9kg. In weightlifting, ties are broken by awarding the higher place to the athlete with the lower body weight.

Do You Know? 奧運會上出現了第一次的聯合抵制事件？

The Soviet invasion of Hungary provoked protests from numerous western countries and some of them, such as Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands, withdrew from the Games. On another matter, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq refused to participate in protest of the Franco-British Suez intervention. And the People's Republic of China refused to participate because of the presence of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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