THE OLYMPİC GAMES İN LONDON 

 The Olympic games in London this year makes London the first city to have hosted the modern Olympic Games three times. The previous times were in 1908 and 1948. Here are some photographs captured at the 1908 Olympics 104 years ago, during a time when megaphones were used to announce events, top hats were all the rage, and dresses were worn by female competitors (this was the third games in which women were allowed to compete).

In 1908, at the Summer Olympic Games in London, England, this gymnast from Denmark is running through her routine. It's not clear whether she was performing or warming up when this picture was taken.

Members of the Norwegian women's gymnastic team perform an exercise in unison at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England.

 Hedwiga Wajsowna of Poland won the silver in the discus throw at the 1936 Olympics.

 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands came in just ahead of Maureen Gardner of Great Britain in the women's 80m hurdles at the 1948 London Olympics.

 Suzanne Lenglen, France, in women's singles tennis at Antwerp, Belgium.

 The British team won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter free style team event in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

In 1932, Babe Didrikson set world records in the 80-meter hurdles, javelin and high jump at the AAU Championships, which also served as the Olympic trials. Three weeks later, in Los Angeles, she won the gold medal in the hurdles and the javelin, and the silver medal in the high jump, in the Olympic Games. Didrikson won a medal in all three of the events she was allowed to enter in the games. She qualified for five, and chose these three.

 In 1928, at the Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Helene Mayer of Germany (facing the camera) defeated Muriel Freeman of Great Britain in the finals to win the gold medal.

 In 1932, at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Jean Shirley of the USA set a new world record and won the gold medal in the women's high jump. She cleared 5' 5-1/4", or 1.657 meters, in her record=setting jump.

Sybil Fenton Newall, better known as Queenie, won the gold medal in ladies' archery at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England. She was 53 years old when she won, and her record as the oldest female gold medal winner at the Olympic Games still stands in 2012.

 July 1912, Norwegian Women's Gymnastics team, exercising during the Swedish System Gymnastics event.