Talk:1920 Summer Olympics

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The winter Olympic games were established only in 1924. So isn't calling 1920 Olympic games as 1920 Summer games represents an inacurat and biased version.

Under that argument, the page for World War I shouldn't be called that since it wasn't called that at the time. It was only called World War I in about 1940. Naraht 14:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to bring this topic back up, because while the WW1 comparison is compelling, but it's a little inapt. These games contained winter sports, so calling this the summer games brings into question whether or not competitors in Ice Hockey, Figure Skating, won a Summer Olympic moodal, or just an Olympic Medal. Distinguishing it as a Summer Olympic medal (as this article would be doing in its title.) would be statistically important. i.e. Gillis Grafström has won a gold medal in both Summer and Winter Olympics? Dancindazed (talk) 05:34, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Can these games really have been opened in April 1920, as this article and others on the Web claim? Why would any Games last five months? And why does the programme pictured here state in French that it ran from August to September, which seems more likely?

The opening ceremony was held in April, though the Games themselves were held in August and September. The Games being held over long periods of time wasn't actually uncommon in the early years of the contests; the 1900 Summer Olympics were held between May and October while the 1904 Summer Olympics were held between July and November. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 03:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Argentina had participated before, including in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.204.44.177 (talk) 08:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Flag of India

I wonder why this article has British_Raj_Red_Ensign.svg.png as the flag and India at the 1920 Summer Olympics has India-Viceroy-1885.svg.png as the flag? They can't both be right flags, can they? 85.217.20.33 (talk) 03:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

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Inconsistency with infobox & navbox

The infobox has the 1912 games as the predecessor, yet the navbox has the cancelled 1916 games as the predecessor. GoodDay (talk) 08:33, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Number of athletes

A recent change was made to the total in the table "Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees", so I tried checking the Olympic report here. I see noticeably different values - on page 160, it says a total of 4268 athletes were represented, on page 170, it gives a total of 4353 in the table breaking down athletes by discipline.

Both numbers are nearly double the numbers currently in our article, although I don't know how trustworthy they are - the published table claims Belgium had 1648 gymnasts. It's not a typo, that number is carried through into the per-column and per-row totals, and it's clearly a photograph of a manual-typewriter "spreadsheet". Looking at the detail for gymnastics on page 143, I see 25 individual competitors listed and ten team listings, Belgium listed twice (teas and special teams).

Can someone who is more fluent in French than I am, sanity check the report against what we have? And does anyone know where the numbers we have came from? Thanks, Tarl N. (discuss) 15:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)