1908 London Summer Olympics

Host city: London, England, United Kingdom

Nations participating: 22

Athletes participating: 2,008 (1,971 men, 37 women,)

Events: 110 in 22 sports

Opening ceremony: April 27

Closing ceremony: Oct 31

Officially opened by: King Edward VII

Stadium: White City Stadium

The 1908 Summer Olympics (the Games of the IV Olympiad) were the fourth modern Olympic Games and the third to be hosted outside of Athens, Greece. The International Olympic Committee considers them the fourth Olympic Games, discounting the intercalated 1906 Summer Olympics.

The 1908 Olympic Games were scheduled to take place in Rome, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on April 7,1906 required the Italian government to redirect funds away from the Olympics to the reconstruction of Naples city.?

A new venue was required and London was selected from other two choices of Berlin and Milan. The games were held in White City alongside the Franco-British Exhibition.

The events took place between April 27, 1908 and?Oct 31, 1908, with 22 nations participating in 110 events. The British team easily topped the unofficial medal count, finishing with three times as many medals as the second-place United States.