Author's Note- Hey everyone, the Olympic flame is currently on a plane flying from Switzerland to Brazil. It spent the day visiting the Olympic Museum and the United Nations buildings. It should land in Brazil bright and early tomorrow morning to begin its trek by foot across Brazil. Once it gets to Brazil it will actually get easier for me to figure out exactly where the flame is and keep you updated on the cool stories about the people carrying the flame. But before we get too deep in history, thanks again to Rebecca Frost for leaving a review.

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Summer Olympic Games III-St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Even though England had stated that he wanted to be the first English speaking country to host the Olympic Games, it was America who ended up making the best proposal. The city of Chicago, Illinois won the bid to host the first Olympic Games outside of Europe. Then when everything looked like things would run smoothly, America's states practically dissolved into a fist fight with Missouri insisting that St. Louis should host the Olympic Games instead. The Midwestern apparently was so insecure that the Olympic Games would eclipse his Louisiana Purchase Exposition that he threatened create a sporting event that leave the Olympics high and dry in Chicago if the games wasn't moved.

In the end, America ended up having to come back to the International Olympic committee to allow the title of host city to be transferred from Chicago to St. Louis. When it became clear that there was not going to be any other solution, France finally caved and allowed America to make the swap.

Unfortunately the Missouri verse Illinois fiasco would not be the only issue that would plague this particular Olympic Games. There would also be the fact that Russia and Japan decided to go to war…again…which made it very difficult for several nations to send athletes to the games. America tried to keep the games a float by combining the Olympic Games with the US National Championships. This meant that there were plenty of athletes in attendance. The problem was that they were pretty much all American, or Americanish athletes.

Yes there would be heights. Some like the fact that gymnast George Eyser won six medals even though his left leg was a wooden prosthetic, might have helped sooth the worlds ruffled feathers if all of the heroic success stories hadn't been about Americans. In the end various countries unhappy with their medal count tried to go after some of America's pointing out that many of the athletes were technically not American citizens yet. America decided to make a fuss back at them and they eventually dropped that line of argument, but not before everyone had a pretty bad taste in their mouths.

After things went that badly, America kind of doubted that he would be allowed to host the games again any time soon.

Historical Note- The 1904 Summer Games were considered to be a bit of a flop. Between the arguing cities, the fact it was on the American Continent, and the Russo-Japanese War turn out by international athletes was incredibly low. Only 52 of the 651 athletes were not from the United States, this over half of the events only had American athletes participating. As you might assume, America kind of swept the medal count with 78 gold medals and 239 total metals. The rests of the world's total metal count came to 41. As you might expect, Europe wasn't particularly happy about that.

End Note- Oh, America you will have better luck next time.