July 28, 1928. For the first time in the Latvian Olympic women's team

<img width = "460" height = "750" src = "http://www.la.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/28jul_Amsterdama.jpg" clbad = "attachment-gallery-view size-gallery-view wp-post-image "alt =" 28jul_Amsterdama "srcset =" http://www.la.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/28jul_Amsterdama.jpg 460w, http: // www. la.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018 /07/28jul_Amsterdama-184×300.jpg 184w, http://www.la.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/28jul_Amsterdama-98×160.jpg 98w, http: //www.la.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/28jul_Amsterdama-263×429.jpg 263w, http://www.la.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/28jul_Amsterdama-207×338.jpg 207w "sizes =" (max-width: 460px) 90 years ago, the 9th Summer Olympics were opened in Amsterdam, where women started for the first time in the Latvian team – the same boy Zinaida Liepiņa and the disc was drowned by Elfrida Karlsone

Moreover, for the first time in the history of the Olympic Movement, the ladies were allowed to partici In athletics disciplines: of the approximately 3,000 participants, 288 were women.

The Latvian Olympic delegation in Amsterdam represented a dozen athletes and officials. He left Riga already on 23 July. Athletics, weightlifters, cyclists and sailors were represented.

Hopes were high, but success was very low. The greatest achievement was won by weightlifter Carl Lehlend – 4th place in triathlon, ie pressing, slashing and pricking. However, in the press and in the eyes of the public, this success was mitigated by the fact that three other athletes achieved the same result.

The disappointment at the Amsterdam Olympics was so great that newspapers seemed to say that state funding for athletes was "money that fell to the ground".

In addition, the delegation was too big even though it has already been possible to predict that it will "pbad". It would therefore have been better to send two athletes three better, but to make them "a little negligible success"! [19659014] It should be noted that the Olympic Games in Amsterdam were those where the Greek delegation was the first to participate in the opening ceremony, but that the last ones had returned home