Why did st louis host the olympic games in 1904?

Question

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Answer 1

Answer - 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair (The Louisiana Purchase Exposition)

The Third Modern Olympics:

The 1904 Olympics is officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad .

The Games were held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.

The city of Chicago had won the original bid to host the games, but the Louisinia Purchase Exposition denied permitting another international event in the same timeframe.

The organization began to plan for its own sports activities, informing the Chicago OCOG that the Exposition intended to eclipse the Summer Games unless the games would be moved to St. Louis .

Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in.

Answer 2

The 1904 Olympics were held in St Louis as part of the Worlds Fair, just as the 1900 Olympics in Paris had been. And the Worlds Fair was being held in St Louis to celebrate one hundred years (or so) since the Louisiana Purchase.

And they were a miserable failure. If it wasn't for the 1906 Olympics in Athens the Olympic movement would probably not have survived. The Olympic events were a largely insignificant addition to the many other cultural attractions at the Worlds Fair. There were only 92 athletes who weren't from the USA, and 41 of them were from Canada. Only a few athletes from elsewhere in the world could be bothered undertaking the lengthly journey to St Louis. There was no accomodation for the athletes - the book I'm gettting this from says that Australia's sole competitor, Corrie Gardner, was shocked to find he had to stay in a tent.

Imagine if the Olympics had died! d**n, the sporting world would be a very different place!