The athletes came from 14 nations, with most coming from Greece.
At the end of the 1908 marathon, the Italian runner was first to enter the stadium, but he was clearly in distress and collapsed of exhaustion before he could complete the event.
For the legacy of the games on 3 January 2022, Ryo Taniguchi created Miraity the future child of the mascots.
On this basis in 2016, the United States led the field with 46 golds, with Great Britain second on 27 and China third with 26.
More volunteer assignments were expected to be cancelled due to the spectator ban.
Modern research shows that at the 1900 Olympics, the athletes of at least four otherwise unrepresented countries , , , competed for other countries in both individual and team sports.