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The athlete, from team of the organising country, holds a corner of the Olympic Flag while speaking the oath:
The judge, also from the home nation, does the same, but with a slightly different oath:
The Olympic Oath, written by Pierre de Coubertin was first taken by an athlete at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The first judge's oath was taken at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
The text of the oath has slightly changed over the years. Victor Boin 's oath in 1920 was
Later, "swear" was replaced by "promise" and "country" by "team". The part concerning doping, was added at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
The athletes and judges that have taken the Olympic Oath are listed below. As the equestrian events in the 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Stockholm, there were two speakers of the Olympic Oath in that year.
| Olympics | Athlete | Judge |
| 1920 Summer Olympics | Victor Boin | - |
| 1924 Winter Olympics | Camille Mandrillon | - |
| 1924 Summer Olympics | Georges André | - |
| 1928 Winter OlympicsThe II Olympic Winter Games were held in 1928 in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics''. The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed | Hans Eidenbenz | - |
| 1928 Summer OlympicsThe Games of the IX Olympiad were held in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had made a bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, but had to give way to war-victim Belgium and De Coubertin's Paris before finally being awarded with the organisation. Games | Henri Dénis | - |
| 1932 Winter OlympicsThe III Olympic Winter Games were held in Lake Placid, New York, USA and opened on February 4, 1932. Medal winners Bobsleigh Figure skating Ice hockey Nordic skiing Speed skating Medal Count Top medal-collecting nations 1932 Winter Olympics. | Jack Shea | - |
| 1932 Summer OlympicsThe Games of the X Olympiad were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Games of the X Olympiad Nations participating37 Athletes participating1,408 (1,281 men, 127 women) Events116 in 14 sports Openi | George Calnan | - |
| 1936 Winter OlympicsThe IV Olympic Winter Games were held in the villages of Garmisch and Partenkirchen in Bavaria. Hitler, the German Nazi leader, wished to show the world that the Aryan' team the National Socialist state had assembled was better than everyone elses', and w | Wilhelm Bogner | - |
| 1936 Summer OlympicsThe Games of the XI Olympiad were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin's bid was preferred over Barcelona. Although awarded before the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the government saw the Olympics as a golden opportunity to promote their fascist | Rudolf Ismayr | - |
| 1948 Winter OlympicsThe V Olympic Winter Games were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland and opened on January 30, 1948. Moritz was also the site of the 1928 Winter Olympics. These Games were the first in twelve years, as none were held during World War II. Highlights A North Ame | Bibi Torriani | - |
| 1948 Summer OlympicsThe Games of the XIV Olympiad were held in 1948 in London, United Kingdom. After a hiatus of 12 years caused by the outbreak of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Games of the XIV Olympi | Don Finlay | - |
| 1952 Winter Olympics | Torbjorn Falkanger | - |
| 1952 Summer Olympics | Heikki Savolainen | - |
| 1956 Winter Olympics | Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo | - |
| 1956 Summer Olympics | John Landy | - |
| Henri Saint Cyr | - | |
| 1960 Winter Olympics | Carol Heiss | - |
| 1960 Summer Olympics | Adolfo Consolini | - |
| 1964 Winter Olympics | Paul Aste | - |
| 1964 Summer Olympics | Takashi Ono | - |
| 1968 Winter Olympics | Leo Lacroix | - |
| 1968 Summer Olympics | Pablo Garrido | - |
| 1972 Winter Olympics | Keiichi Suzuki | Fumio Asaki |
| 1972 Summer Olympics | Heidi Schüller | Heinz Pollay |
| 1976 Winter Olympics | Werner Delle-Karth | Willy Köstinger |
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Pierre St.-Jean | Maurice Fauget |
| 1980 Winter Olympics | Eric Heiden | Terry McDermott |
| 1980 Summer Olympics | Nikolay Andrianov | Aleksandr Medved |
| 1984 Winter Olympics | Bojan Krizaj | Dragan Perovic |
| 1984 Summer Olympics | Edwin Moses | Sharon Weber |
| 1988 Winter Olympics | Pierre Harvey | Suzanna Morrow-Francis |
| 1988 Summer Olympics | Hur Jae | Lee Hak-Rae |
| 1992 Winter Olympics | Surya Bonaly | Pierre Bornat |
| 1992 Summer Olympics | Luis Doreste Blanco | Eugeni Asensio |
| 1994 Winter Olympics | Vegard Ulvang | Kari Karing |
| 1996 Summer Olympics | Teresa Edwards | Hobie Billingsly |
| 1998 Winter Olympics | Kenji Ogiwara | Junko Hiramatsu |
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Rechelle Hawkes | Peter Kerr |
| 2002 Winter Olympics | Jimmy Shea | Allen Church |
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Zoe Dimoschaki | Lazaros Voreadis |