Athens (Greece) - 2004
These Summer Games occured between August 13, 2004 and 28 8, 2004 and involved 201 nations.

10625 athletes involved (6296 men, 4329 women) in 301 events.

28 sports:
Aquatics
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Canoe / Kayak
Cycling
Equestrian
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics
Handball
Hockey
Judo
Modern Pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Weightlifting
Wrestling



Candidate cities:
Buenos Aires (ARG), CapeTown (RSA), Rome (ITA) and Stockholm (SWE)

45000 volunteers involved

Opening speech by President of the Hellenic Republic Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.
Athletes' Olympic Oath recited by Zoï Dimoschaki (athletics).
Judges' Olympic Oath recited by Lazaros Voreadis (basketball).
Olympic Flame lighted by Nikos Galis (basketball), Dimitrios Domazos (football), Paraskevi Patoulidou (athletics), Akakios Kachiasvilis (weightlifting), Ioannis Melissanidis (artistic gymnastics), Nikolaos Kaklamanakis (sailing).

Source: IOC.