The modern-day Olympics is mainly divided into Summer and Winter Olympics. The countries send their athletes to the hosting nations for them to compete in their respective games to prove their prowess at the competitive level. The hosting nations also get an opportunity to showcase their ability to the world and improve their infrastructure.
Ancient Olympics The inception of the Ancient Olympic Games takes us back to the time of BC when it started as a religious and athletics festival combined and held together. The Ancient Games featured running events, a pentathlon consisting of a jumping event, discus and javelin throws, a foot race, and wrestling , boxing, wrestling, Pankration , and equestrian events. The ancient games were considered equally important as religion as it was believed that a sacrifice would suffice the wishes of the Gods before playing the Olympic Games.
The ancient games were played in every four years and the same tradition prevails till date. Modern Olympics In order to resuscitate the tradition of the ancient games the International Olympic Committee IOC was formed in June of , the modern day Olympics instigated in the year of which was hosted by Athens. It marked the commencement of the Summer Olympic Games.
The next Summer games was held in Paris. The evolution of the Olympics happened during the 20th and 21st centuries that resulted in the addition of the several more events to the Olympic Games. The creation of the Winter Olympic Games for snow and ice sports, the Paralympic Games for differently-abled athletes, the Youth Olympic Games for athletes aged between 14 yrs yrs of age, the five Continental games Pan American, African, Asian, European, and Pacific , and the World Games for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games.
Winter Olympic Games also commenced in the year which was held in Chamonix, France. Both Summer and Winter Games have been successfully hosted by the who are the pert of the Olympics association.
Here is the list of all the Olympic Games that have taken place since the foundation of the modern-day Olympics:. Summer Olympics. Winter Olympics. Olympic Symbol The Olympic symbol represents the activities of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. The symbol mainly consists of the 5 rings that are interlocked with each other having five different colors- Blue, Black, Red, Yellow and Green.
The rings are colored with at least one color of the flag of every nation. Helsinki Helsinki is the smallest city ever to have had the privilege of hosting the Summer Olympics. The buildings that were constructed in Helsinki for the Summer Olympics have been well preserved and are internationally renowned for their cohesive and minimalistic architecture.
Olympic Games Mascots. The idea of an Olympic mascot was officially approved at the 73rd Session of the International Olympic Committee in Munich However four years earlier there was an unofficial mascot at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France and at the SUmmer Games in Mexico there were unofficial dove and jaguar mascots.
Since then, human or invented figures have been used, and often more than one mascot — the Nagano Winter Olympic Games had four mascots; the Sydney Olympic Games had three and the Athens Olympic Games had two, and Beijing had five! Athena and Phevos were two children, a sister and a brother, related to ancient Greece. The source of their inspiration was an ancient Greek doll from the 7th century BC. The bell-shaped terracotta doll has movable limbs and is dressed in a tunic.
Their names were inspired by two Olympian Gods: Athena, goddess of wisdom and patron of the city of Athens. Phevos, the Olympian god of light and music, known as Apollo. Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton. They are named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville Hospital, a facility in Buckinghamshire that initially organised the Stoke Mandeville Games, the precursor of the Paralympic Games.
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