The document provides a historical overview of Olympic posters and emblems from 1896 to 2004, highlighting some key events from each Games such as host cities, new sports added, and notable achievements and controversies. It discusses the evolution of the Olympics from the first modern Games in Athens with no official poster to the growth of the Games over time.

1. Olympic posters and emblems

15. Fifty - four years after Italy had to give up hosting the Olympics, Rome finally got its chance .

16. The final torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai was born in Hiroshima the day that the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb.

18. The 1972 Games were the first to have a named mascot: Waldi, the dachshund.

28. In 2004 the Olympic Games returned to Greece, the home of both the ancient Olympics and the first modern Olympics.

29. Credit: IOC / Olympic Museum Collections Noemi , August 08