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MONTREAL OLYMPIC STADIUM. ... ANTWERP'S OLYMPISCH STADION. Built as the main venue for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, this stadium has seen a decrease in seating capacity over the decades.
In the first round, Spain beat Sweden 2-1 and Italy 0-2. France and Czechoslovakia refused to play, were disqualified and the Spanish team and the Netherlands played "a final" at the Antwerp Olympic ...
The Stade Nautique d'Antwerp was the first official swimming venue created at the Olympic Games. Antwerp's pool was enclosed by concrete, and, like the White City Stadium pool in 1908, the water ...
Borg, the 1928 1,500m champion, was denied the honour of becoming the first Swedish Olympic swimming gold medal winner by Haaken Malmroth, who in Antwerp claimed two golds: in the 200m ...
Royal Antwerp's Champions League debut saw them heavily beaten by Barcelona at the Olympic Stadium "For a few years it was bumpy, the management didn't follow modern football," recalls van Walsum.
Eighty years ago, a young collegian from Indiana was settling back into campus life after spending the summer as an Olympic athlete and competitor in post-Olympic events overseas. The 19-year-old ...