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    Olympic Games


    The Olympic Games[1] is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad[2]). Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated by a two year gap.

    A History of the Olympics

    According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history.



    The very first modern Olympic Games opened in the first week of April 1896. Since the Greek government had been unable to fund construction of a stadium, a wealthy Greek architect, Georgios Averoff, donated one million drachmas (over $100,000) to restore the Panathenaic Stadium, originally built in 330 BCE, with white marble for the Olympic Games.

    1896 - Athens
    1900 - Paris
    1904 - St. Louis
    1906 - Athens ("Unoffficial")
    1908 - London
    1912 - Stockholm
    1916 - Not held
    1920 - Antwerp
    1924 - Paris
    1928 - Amsterdam
    1932 - Los Angeles
    1936 - Berlin
    1940 - Not held (WWII)
    1944 - Not held (WWII)
    1948 - London
    1952 - Helsinki
    1956 - Melbourne
    1960 - Rome
    1964 - Tokyo
    1968 - Mexico City
    1972 - Munich
    1976 - Montreal
    1980 - Moscow
    1984 - Los Angeles
    1988 - Seoul
    1992 - Barcelona
    1996 - Atlanta
    2000 - Sydney
    2004 - Greece
    2008 - Beijing


    Currently, the Olympic program consists of 35 different sports, 53 disciplines and more than 400 events. The Summer Olympics includes 28 sports with 38 disciplines and the Winter Olympics includes 7 sports with 15 disciplines.[48] Nine sports were on the original Olympic programme in 1896: athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, shooting, swimming, tennis, and wrestling. If the 1896 rowing events had not been cancelled due to bad weather, they would have been included in this list as well.[49]

    At the most recent Winter Olympics, 15 disciplines in seven sports were featured. Of these, cross country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating have been featured on the programme at all Winter Olympics. In addition, figure skating and ice hockey also have been contested as part of the Summer Games before the introduction of separate Winter Olympics.

    In recent years, the IOC has added several new sports to the programme to attract attention from young spectators. Examples of such sports include snowboarding and beach volleyball. The growth of the Olympics also means that some less popular (modern pentathlon) or expensive (white water canoeing) sports may lose their place on the Olympic programme. The IOC decided to discontinue baseball and softball beginning in 2012. Cricket[citation needed] and Rugby union[citation needed] used to be in the Olympic Games but were discontinued; a revival[citation needed] is now seen as possible.

    Rule 48.1 of the Olympic Charter requires that there be a minimum of 15 Olympic sports at each Summer Games. Following its 114th Session (Mexico 2002), the IOC also decided to limit the programme of the Summer Games to a maximum of 28 sports, 301 events, and 10,500 athletes. The Olympic sports are defined as those governed by the International Federations listed in Rule 46 of the Olympic Charter. A two-thirds vote of the IOC is required to amend the Charter to promote a Recognised Federation to Olympic status and therefore make the sports it governs eligible for inclusion on the Olympic programme. Rule 47 of the Charter requires that only Olympic sports may be included in the programme.

    The IOC reviews the Olympic programme at the first Session following each Olympiad. A simple majority is required for an Olympic sport to be included in the Olympic programme. Under the current rules, an Olympic sport not selected for inclusion in a particular Games remains an Olympic sport and may be included again later with a simple majority. At the 117th IOC Session, 26 sports were included in the programme for London 2012.


    Until 1992, the Olympics also often featured demonstration sports. The objective was for these sports to reach a larger audience; the winners of these events are not official Olympic champions. These sports were sometimes sports popular only in the host nation, but internationally known sports have also been demonstrated. Some demonstration sports eventually were included as full-medal events.


    Official Olympic Anthem
    Immortal spirit of antiquity,
    Father of the true, beautiful and good,
    Descend, appear, shed over us thy light
    Upon this ground and under this sky
    Which has first witnessed thy unperishable
    fame.
    Give life and animation to those noble games!
    Throw wreaths of fadeless flowers to the victors
    In the race and in strife!
    Create in our breasts, hearts of steel!
    Shine in a roseate hue and form a vast temple
    To which all nations throng to adore thee,
    Oh immortal spirit of antiquity.


    For more reference :
    A History of the Olympics
    Olympic Games: Definition and Much More from Answers.com



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