The commencement of the 1908 London Olympics Marathon at Windsor Castle, England, in 1908. (AP Photo)

The start of the 100-kilometres cycle race at the 1908 Olympics in London. (AP Photo/PA)

America's Mel Sheppard, left, wins gold from Great Britain's Harold Wilson, right, during the Men's 1500-meter final at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London. (AP Photo)

A copy of a programme collected by 1948 British Olympian Dorothy Tyler is seen during an interview in London. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

John Mark, a member of the British Olympic team, kindles the flame in the permanent receptacle at Wembley Stadium during the opening day ceremonies of the 1948 Summer Olympic Games. (AP Photo)

Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen (692) right, wins the women's 80 meters hurdles final in world record time at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games on 1948 at Wembley Stadium. She was followed by British athlete Maureen Gardner (735), second from right and in third place by Shirley Strickland from Australia (668), second from left. (AP Photo)

Cissie Davies of Great Britain on the balancing bar, during the 1948 Summer Olympic Games gymnastics event at the Empress Hall, Earl's Court. (AP Photo)

America's Leroy Braxton Cochran jumps a hurdle in heat one of the men's 400-meter 1948 Olympic Game hurdles at Wembley Stadium. (AP Photo)

Australia's Jack Winters jumps in the 1948 Olympic Games high jump competition, at Wembley Stadium. (AP Photo)

Dr. Sammy Lee, Army Medical Lieutenant from Pasadena, Calif., makes a big splash as he hits the water in Empire Pool during the 1948 Summer Olympic high diving finals. (AP Photo)

Fanny Blankers-Koen, of Netherlands, crossing the finish line of the 80-meter hurdle final of the 1948 Olympic Games. (AP Photo)

Canada's Edward Haddad, right, lands a left to the body of Egypt's Ezz El-Din Nasir during their 1948 Olympic Games Lightweight Boxing bout at the Empire Pool. Haddad won the bout. (AP Photo)

Egypt's Ibrahim Shams in the men's Olympic Games Lightweight weightlifting event at Earl's Court in 1948. Shams won the gold medal in the competition. (AP Photo)

The U.S. Summer Olympic rowing team (extreme far left) is seen winning their sixth successive victory in the eighths at Henley-On-Thames in 1948. (AP Photo)

America's "Llanoria", right, and Britain's "Johan", second right, at the start of the Olympic Games 6-meter yacht race, at Torbay, England, 1948. (AP Photo)

High-schooler Bob Mathias of Tulare, Calif., makes mighty discus toss in Wembley England Stadium, 1948 to take lead in the decathlon in the London Summer Olympics. Mathias, 17, hurled the discus for a distance of 144 feet 4 inches to top the field. (AP Photo)

Mel Patton, left, anchorman of the U.S. men's 4 x 100-meter relay team, crosses the finish line well ahead of Britain's Jack Archer, during the Summer Olympics at Wembley Stadium. Olympic judges disqualified the U.S. team on the grounds that their first exchange of the baton was not made within the 20-meter zone, but reversed their decision three days later giving the U.S. the gold medal and Britain the silver. (AP Photo)

The score-board for the 4 x 100-meter 1948 Olympic Games relay race, at Wembley Stadium. First place had originally been awarded to Great Britain after America had been disqualified for an alleged faulty baton change. The Jury of the International Amateur Athletics Federation studied the official film of the event and overturned the result. (AP Photo)

The winners of the men's high diving championship, B. I. F. Herlan, left, of the U.S., who came in second, congratulates J. P. Capilla, right, of Mexico who came third, and Sammy Lee, center, of the U. S., who came in first, at the Empire Pool. (AP Photo/Olympic Photo Association)