| World War I intervened to cancel the 1916 Games set for Berlin, and the 1920 Games were held in the war-torn city of Antwerp, Belgium. Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey — all enemies of Belgium — were not invited to participate. The Olympic Oath was introduced, as was the newly created Olympic flag with five rings colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red (above). The career of Paavo Nurmi, "the Flying Finn," began to flourish; he eventually won 12 Olympic medals, 9 of them gold. |
