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British athlete John Mark carries the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony of the 1948 Olympic Games. An identical torch was later brought to Antiques Roadshow.

Sunday evenings are not complete without Antiques Roadshow. For more than four decades the show has been a national institution, with some six million people regularly watching some unforgettable valuations.

Roadshow queues are legendary, but in 2020 for the first time in the history of the programme, you have your chance to come and have a valuation without the wait. We're selecting items submitted in advance, so have a rummage in your attic or dig out that car boot bargain and apply to be on the show.

You never know, you could have something gathering dust, which is worth a fortune.

Read on to relive some of the Antiques Roadshow's Olympic highlights.

The 1908 Games were the first to be held in London, and a special stadium called ‘White City’ was built in record time.

The London Games also changed the marathon distance from 25 miles to 26 miles 385 yards to ensure the race finished below the royal box in the London stadium.

With tug-of-war and tandem cycling two of the more unusual events, the Games were a great success. Memorabilia and a gold medal from the 1908 games were brought to an Antiques Roadshow filmed at Wimbledon back in 2011.

Immortalised as the "Chariots of Fire" Games following the achievements of Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, the Paris Olympics were also a record-breaking success for swimmer Lucy Morton.

She became the first British woman to win a gold swimming medal when she unexpectedly triumphed in the 200m breaststroke.

Her granddaughter brought her medal collection along to Antiques Roadshow at Compton Verney in 2019.

For the first time, a symbolic fire was lit during the Amsterdam Games and lighting up the track in 1928 was John 'Jack' London.

He was the first black British athlete to win an Olympic medal and his included a silver medal in the 100m sprint and a bronze medal in the 4x4 100m relay.

Jack’s relatives brought his medal collection to an Antiques Roadshow at Lytham Hall in 2019, and expert John Foster found out more about his athletic career and glitzy showbiz retirement.

The 1928 Olympics was also the first time women were allowed to compete in athletics and gymnastics events.

The British women's team, which included 46-year-old Ethel Seymour, won the All-Around bronze medal.

During an Antiques Roadshow Pioneering Women special filmed at the Palace of Westminster, expert Lisa Lloyd discovers the amazing story behind this gymnastic team.

It was the games that stunned the world with the size and grandeur of the specially built Coliseum Olympic stadium.

Despite the backdrop of the Depression, these Olympics saw sporting stars rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty. Even bootleg alcohol was available to competitors, as the diary of Olympic swimmer Helen Varcoe reveals.

As the shadow of WW2 crept over Europe, these games are best remembered for African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens.

Owens won four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump.

Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury hears an incredible eyewitness account of Hitler's reaction to Owen’s success.

After 12 long years, these were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 games in Berlin.

Known as the Austerity Games they had little of the pomp and ceremony of previous competitions.

However, some traditions are just too important to lose, and an Olympic torch from the 1948 Games was brought to an Antiques Roadshow at Charlecote in 2010.

Against a backdrop of violence both at the Games themselves and back home in Belfast, the 33-year-old pentathlete Mary Peters won a gold medal in a nail-biting competition.

Her former training partner brought her running shoes and Olympic memorabilia to Antiques Roadshow at Lords Cricket Ground, where expert Paul Atterbury heard the story of her incredible achievements.

Tessa Sanderson became Great Britain's leading female javelin thrower from the 1970s and became the first British black woman to win an Olympic gold medal at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.

During an Antiques Roadshow Sport Relief Special in 2008, Michael Aspel met the Olympic superstar who competed in no less than six Olympic games.