Olympics

 

 OLYMPIC GAMES

 

Olympic Games is the most famous event of sports of the world. Almost every country of the world participate in this global event (Khelon Ka Mahakumbh).

                            

                                       

                Olympics and History

 

In earlier time, Olympic was first played in the Greek town of Olympia in 776 BC.Olympic Games got its name from its place of origination -Olympia.

Greek King Georgois I  inaugurated the ceremony and  welcomed the athletes  with a crowd gathering of 60,000 in the Panathaenic Stadium of Olympia.

In the first Olympic only athletes from Greece and some of its neighbouring state took part.

Olden Olympic Games continued from 776 BC to 393 AD at an interval of every 4 years in Olympia from 6 August to 19 September during a religious festival honoring God Jeus.

.# Some Important facts about the First Olden Olympics :-

i) First Olympic Champion – Coroebus in the Footrace called Stade event.

ii) Footrace is the first Olympic event.

iii) Coined stamped with Jeus figure and       Olive Wreths were given as prizes.

 

The Olympic was stopped for 1503 years from 393 to 1896.

 

                Remerging Of Olympics

The Modern Olympics was again held after a long period in capital city of Greece , Athens in 1896. The credit for rebirth of Olympic Games goes to a Greek named Baron Pierre de Coubertin ,who had given for the proposal of organizing Olympics in 1894. First Modern Olympic held  from 6 April to 15 April in Athens stadium.The crown Prince of Constantine and Greek King officially started the first Modern Olympic Games.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) organized the first Modern Olympics. IOC chosen an Olympic symbol that consists of five interlocking rings of 5 colors namely Blue, Green, Red, Black and Yellow on a white field. The five colored rings in the Olympic Flag represents 5 continents of the world – Asia, Africa, America, Europe and Australia (Oceania). The Olympic flag was designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Olympic Hymns was composed by Spyridon Samarus and written by poet Kostis Palamus.

Olympic Rituals:- Olympic Flag, Torch(massal), Opening and Closing ceremony.

# Some Facts about Modern Olympics:-

i) All athletes were from Europe and America of which 65% were from Greece only.

ii) Silver medal for 1^st , Copper medal for 2^nd  and Bronze medals as 3^rd  prizes in the First Modern Olympics.

iii) Only male athletes participated.

iv)  241 athletes from 14 countries took part.

v) Most successful athletes – Carl Sachuhmann in Gymnast (won 4 events)

vi)  U.S.A ranked 1^st with 11 gold medals while Greece won 46 medals.

Olympics was divided into two events since 1994 – Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics with an interval of 2 years between them.

Winter Olympics was organized for ice and cold games.

Summer Olympics were earlier called as –“Games of Olympiads”

 

Some basics about Olympics:-

. Female athletes participated for the first time in 1900.

. India participated for the first time in 1900 uder leadership of Norman Pithchard.

. Athletes have to qualify in order to part in Olympics.

. International Olympic Committee is responsible for hosting Olympics and selecting the Olympic   Venue.

. The funding for Olympics is done by all the participating countries and major Economical Organizations of the world.

 

Olympic official website:-https://olympics.com/en/

List of Olympics Venue:-

Olmpics                    Year             Venue

      I                           1896          Athens, Greece

     II                           1900          Paris, France

    III                           1904          St. Louis, U.S.A

    IV                           1908          London, U.K

     V                           1912          Stockholm,                                                              Sweden

    VI                         1916        Berlin, Germany     (Cancelled due to World War I)

    VII                          1920          Antwerp,                                                                     Belgium

    VIII                         1924          Paris, France

    IX                            1928          Amesterdam,                                                            Netherland

     X                          1932        Los Angels,U.S.A

     XI                          1936             Berlin,                                                                        Germany

     XII                         1940          Tokyo, Japan    (Cancelled due to World War II)

     XIII                        1944             London,U.K     (Cancelled due to World War II)

    XIV                         1948            London, U.K

    XV                          1952            Helsinki,                                                               Finland

    XVI                         1956            Melbourne,                                                             Australia

   XVII                         1960             Rome, Italy

  XVIII                         1964            Tokyo, Japan

   XIX                           1968            Mexico City,                                                        Mexico

   XX                            1972           Munich,                                                                       Germany

   XXI                       1976        Montreal,Canada

  XXII                           1980          Moscow,                                                                    Russia

  XXIII                          1984           Los Angels,                                                                 U.S.A

  XXIV                           1988           Seoul,                                                                   South  Koreya

  XXV                            1992           Barcelona,                                                              Spain

  XXVI                           1996          Atlanta,                                                                   U.S.A

  XXVII                          2000          Sydney,                                                                Australia

  XXVIII                         2004          Athens,                                                                       Greece

  XXIX                           2008           Beijing,                                                                   China

  XXX                             2012            London,                                                                     U.K

  XXXI                            2016             Rio de                                                              Janeiro, Brazil

  XXXII                          2020            Tokyo,                                                                      Japan

 

 

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