1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were held at Rome in Italy.Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics),  "1960 Rome Summer Games"; retrieved 2012-7-25.  Rome had been awarded the 1908 Summer Olympics. However, after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, London became the host.

CBS paid $394,000 for the right to broadcast the Games in the United States.Museum of Broadcast Communication (MBC), "Olympics and Television" ; retrieved 2012-7-25.

 Host 
Rome was chosen as the host of the 1960 Summer Olympics in 1955. Other cities that could have hosted the Olympics were:

  Brussels, Belgium
  Budapest, Hungary
  Detroit, United States
  Lausanne, Switzerland
  Mexico City, Mexico
  Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo would later host the 1964 Summer Olympics, and Mexico City would later host the 1968 Summer Olympics.

 Participating nations 
A total of 67 nations sent athletes to compete at the Melbourne games.Taking part in the games for the first time were Morocco, San Marino, Sudan, Suriname and Tunisia.


 Athletes from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had joined together as the new (British) West Indies Federation; and they competed as "Antilles". This was unique in the 1960 Olympiad.






















 Athletes from East Germany and West Germany would compete as the United Team of Germany.






























































Related pages
 List of IOC country codes

 Other websites 
 IOC page for the 1960 Summer Olympics

References

Other websites

 Rome 1960 at Olympic.org