Olympic Games
Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics. It is the only Games ever held in Latin America, and it was the second ever outside of Western Europe, Australia, or the United States. Mexico first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1924. Mexico has also participated in several Winter Olympic Games since 1928. Mexico has performed best in athletics, boxing, diving, equestrian events, and more recently taekwondo.
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Famous quotes containing the words olympic and/or games:
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
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—Chinese proverb.