Thailand at the Olympics Thai athletes have won gold medals at every subsequent Summer Olympics with the exception of the 2012 Games in London, with all its gold medals to date having come in men's boxing and women's weightlifting. Thai athletes have won a total of 33 medals. Thailand's most successful Games to date were the 2004 Games in Athens, where they won eight medals, three of them were gold. The National Olympic Committee for Thailand was created in 1948 and recognized in 1950. According to official data of the International Olympic Committee. This is a list of people who have won two or
Venues of the 1972 Winter Olympics This campaign proved fruitful when Sapporo was awarded the 1972 Winter Games at the April 1966 IOC meeting in Rome. Venue construction began in 1968 and all but the Tsukisamu Indoor rink was completed in time for the test events at Sapporo in February 1971. Tsukisamu was not completed until late 1971 or early 1972 due to not knowing how many teams would compete at the 1972 Olympic ice hockey tournament. During the men's 5000 m speed skating event, Ard Schenk of the Netherlands won the event despite a snowstorm. It was the first of Schenk's three gold medals at