The Olympic flame reaches the end of its journey on October 10, 1964. Thailand’s team ended the Games without any medals, but he says that didn’t matter. “Sport is not about winning or losing.

It culminated with being selected to host the 1964 Olympic Games becoming the first Asian country to win the rights to the prestigious sporting event. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content ...

In the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Games, the Olympic torch made its way through many newly independent nations in Asia. One of these was Malaysia, where a celebrated sprinter carried the flame into ...

Even with the Olympics, only 270,000 foreigners visited Japan in 1964. In 2019, there were some 31.9 million foreign visitors, their spending a major economic pillar.

30, 1964, in Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, the first Olympics to be held in Asia. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ historic coverage? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic ...

Tokyo 1964: Designing Tomorrow brings together an array of artefacts from the 1964 Games, as a way of exploring their creative and technological legacy, as well as the event’s impact on ideas around ...

A memorable Olympics as they are held in Asia for the first time with plenty of success for British athletes TOKYO had spent over £2 billion on new facilities and infrastructure for these Olympic ...

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Hungary also has a silver and bronze medal. The gold medals for Hungary came in the 1952, 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, while Great Britain won their gold medals in the 1900, 1908 and 1912 Games.

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