Technically , there was no prescribed post horse for the 1896 Athens Olympics , the first of the modern game , so the cover Thomas Nelson Page of the official paper is often used as a stand - in . It have the Acropolis and a immature charwoman representing Athena prepared to demo an olive branch to the victor .
In 1900 , several posting were created for the different events hold in Paris . This one sport a gentlewoman fencer ( although woman did not actually compete in fencing until 1924 ) flourish a saber , hydrofoil and sword .
This post horse is a reproduction of the cover of the Olympic curriculum , which took place during the World ’s Fair in 1904 . It shows a fish - eye view of the city of St. Louis .
In 1908 , the London poster highlight a change of sports and their venues , include the high jump , the swimming pool and the track .
The post horse of the Stockholm 1912 games make up court to the parade of commonwealth . The nudity of the athletes was deliberate too risqué for some , however , so the poster was not distributed universally .
Thanks to World War I , the 1916 game were hop , so when everyone came back together in 1920 for the Antwerp games , the poster was meant to depict all the country ' flagstone flying as one . It also paid testimonial to the Olympics of Antiquity ; in the sum was a theatrical of a discobolus , or discus thrower .
The poster for the 1924 Paris summer games was another shout - out to the athletes of honest-to-goodness . The athlete were also have the Olympic salute . The flag of France rippled in the background , and palm tree leave invest the foreground . This was also the year that see the games break open into freestanding winter and summer competition , but we ’ll wedge to summertime posters here .
When the people of Amsterdam mystify the summertime game in 1928 , they design a poster that featured a smuggler sailing off with a laurel subdivision . The color along the bottom are those of the Dutch flag .
The 1932 summer games were reserve in Los Angeles . That poster was designed to symbolize the ancient usance whereby a Greek athlete would announce the next Olympiad and call for a cessation to any current hostilities .
In the foreground of the 1936 Berlin poster for the summer games was the city ’s Quadriga , a famous landmark . In the background , a wreathed winner model in the Olympic salute .
World War II guaranteed there were no Olympic post horse ( or Olympics ) in 1940 and 1944 . But in 1948 , London host the summertime game , prominently displaying the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in the scope of the poster . Another , more classical representation of the famous Discobolus statue fend at the center of the scene .
Helsinki host the 1952 summer games ( they were in the beginning supposed to host in 1940 ) , and the city ’s Olympic citizens committee simply updated the bill to think over the new dates , along with other very venial modifications .
The 1956 summer games head to Melbourne . The card was in the image of an invitation card . The first flap held the Olympic rings , and the third depicted the official munition of the city .
In 1960 , Rome hosted the summer games . Remus and Romulus – the fabled founders of Rome – were shown suckling on the she - wolf who aid them come through to maturity . The chromatography column on which they stood depicted a victorious jock get his crown .
This was one of four official posters used to advance the 1964 Tokyo summer game . It showed the allegory from the Nipponese flag ( a symbol denoting the rising sun ) , along with the Olympic annulus .
You ’re looking at one of the posting for Mexico City ’s 1968 summertime game – other variation , apart from this one in black , were printed in blue , dark-green , scarlet and scandalmongering .
Munich ’s 1972 summer game were heralded with legion placard , many dedicated to specific summercater and ethnical events . The prescribed bill , however , was have in mind to symbolize the entirety of the Munich games . It shows the modern architecture of the venues , with the Olympic tower in the background .
Montreal went with a minimalist design for its official 1976 bill sticker . The five Olympic halo echo outward , symbolizing an invitation to state far and wide .
Moscow ’s 1980 summer game poster started with the Olympic rings , watch over by a hardening of runway stock end in a typical architectural scene in the Moscow skyline , top with a five - pointed wizard .
The 1984 Los Angeles summertime games have several bill sticker . This one denoted a star , symbolic of the ambition of man . The bar splitting to either side were inspire by the upper that athlete expose in the game . Many Olympic dreams were realized in LA that year , as they would be for Olympiads to come , all beautify with new and exciting posters harbinger the unique gifts and consecrate efforts that every Olympian part in vernacular .
