This day in Olympic history: August 22

Beijing - This day in Olympic history: August 22 2004 - Hungarian Robert Fazekas wins the hammer throw with a distance of 70.93. After failing to produce enough urine to be tested, he was disqualified and later a bag of stored urine was found on his body. Luckily for the runner-up and world champion Virgilijus Alekna, Fazekas' cheating was discovered early enough to allow the Lithuanian to participate in the victory ceremony. 1986 - Barcelona introduces its candidature for its Olympic bid to the international press at the fifth world swimming championships in Barcelona. The city goes on to win the right to host the 1992 Olympics. 1972 - The International Olympic Committee expels Rhodesia from the organization, prompting several African National Olympic Committees to join the Olympic movement and participate in the Munich Olympics. Rhodesia was only allowed back into the Olympics in 1980, when it competed as Zimbabwe for the first time and sensationally won the women's hockey tournament. The team had only been nominated a few days before leaving for Moscow and had only been invited to participate five weeks before the start of the competition after several other countries withdrew because of the US-led boycott. 1951 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team play in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The game was seen by many as laying the ghosts of the 1936 Olympics to rest. In 1936 the Nazis used the Olympics to show the dominance of whites over blacks and Hitler was said - falsely - to have refused to shake the hand of black American athlete Jesse Owens. Hitler was never scheduled to shake the hand of the winners although he did say that he would not have shaken Owens' hand. 1920 - Finnish athlete Johan Kolehmainen wins the marathon at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in a nail-biting finish from Juri Lossmann. The 60-yard difference remains the closest finish till 1996.