This year, the Games nearly reached gender parity. Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from New Zealand was the first openly transgender woman competing in any event at the Olympics. She joined other elite athletes like footballer Quinn from Canada and U. After Simone Biles stepped away from the U.
The last time the gold medal was shared among two athletes at the Olympics was years ago. Four sports made their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games: karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing. Humanoid Robots helped on the field for the first time, fetching hammers and javelins flung during field events and interacting with spectators.
This was also the first time a host used facial recognition systems to provide athletes and officials venue access, helping to increase and speed up security. During those weeks, Paris will be at the center of the sporting world. The IOC is keen to set a new standard for inclusive, gender-balanced and youth-centered games.
The early s were a time of rapid change in New York City. This map shows the city in , alongside the modern day metropolis. The opening of the Erie Canal helped turn the city into a shipping powerhouse, and there was a building boom on the horizon. Cholera epidemics , fires, and riots swept through the city at various points. This fascinating interactive map, from Esri , is a snapshot of New York City during the tumultuous time to be exact , overlaid on the modern-day satellite map.
This map includes all the usual features, such as roads and prominent buildings, but it also has some clever secondary information built in as well. For one, shading indicates ares that were more built-up at the time. There are also a number of visual techniques to indicate topographical features as well. The full map is well worth exploring as well, as there are a number of beautiful illustrations throughout.
Tool tip: Click the X on the info bar to hide it. At this point in time, development in Lower Manhattan extended until about 14th Street , where buildings began to give way to open spaces. At the time, New York was anticipating massive growth, and the straightforward grid pattern was an efficient way to prepare the city for rapid expansion.
In the s, fire was an ever-present danger for city dwellers. In fact, a major fire tore through Lower Manhattan a year prior to when this map was published. This route is still recognizable today as the Harlem Line.
One very obvious difference between the two maps is how much land has been reclaimed along shorelines in the area. Battery Park City, on the west side of downtown, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard are two prominent examples of infill. Midtown Manhattan is worth zooming into for a couple of reasons. First, the outline of Central Park is visible, although the park would officially be approved until almost 20 years later. As well, this topographical map clearly shows the numerous outcroppings spread across the island.
Manhattan was far from flat in the s, and it took a tremendous amount of effort—starting with gunpowder, pickaxes, and horse-drawn carts—to level the land. Looking at these historical maps is a reminder that the New York City we know today is the product of hundreds of years of human effort, and that cities continue to evolve over time.
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Monaco has sent several prolific athletes to the Games, including rifle shooter Fabienne Pasetti, who has appeared in six Olympics between and She was also the first woman to represent Monaco in the Games. The second female Olympian from Monaco was swimmer Angelique Trinquier, who competed in the m backstroke in London.
Monaco will try for a medal — any medal — again in Tokyo. South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in Five years later, at the Rio Games in , the country made its Olympic debut, sending three runners to compete in South America.
He finished 47th in London, and then dropped to 81st as a representative for South Sudan in South Sudan will compete in Tokyo in a few days, but they have been in Japan far longer than any of their other competitors. Now, athletes like year-old Abraham Majok, who runs the m, are competing to foster unity in his divided country.
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