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Television Coverage. The 1936 Games were the first to be broadcast on television. Twenty-five television viewing rooms were set up in the Greater Berlin area, allowing the locals to follow the Games free of charge. Young Olympians. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the U.S. won the gold medal in springboard diving.
The BBC provided coverage of the 1948 Summer Olympics on their television service, live from Wembley Stadium and the Empire Pool. Coverage was mainly limited to the London area, [1] but could be picked up as far away as the Channel Islands in certain conditions. [3]
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The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
Berlin 1936: Games of the XI Olympiad. Closed circuit television coverage of the Berlin 1936: Summer Olympics Games of the XI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Berlin, Prussia, Germany from 1 August 1936 through 16 August 1936.
The United States team beat Canada 19–8. British rower Jack Beresford set a record by winning his fifth Olympic medal. During the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Romanian Boxer Nicolae Berechet was eliminated in the first round of the featherweight class.
The greatest innovation of the 1936 Olympics was conceived by Dr. Carl Diem, head of the Organizing Committee. He proposed that a torch relay be instituted to carry a flame from Ancient Olympia to the Berlin Stadium and then to light the Olympic Flame at the stadium.
