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Olympics

Ancient Olympics:
Olympics is an International sports festival with wide variety of events participated by thousands of athletes from all over the world. An ancient Olympics game was originated in the city of Olympia, an ancient city of Greece and conducted for every four years. The games were always held at Mount Olympia and it was Heracles who called the game “Olympic” and he built the Olympic stadium as an honor to Zeus, his father. The Olympic games conducted from 776 BC t0 393 AD. The Olympic were ended after the Roman Emperor, Theodosius gained the power in Greece and eliminated all the practices Greeks were held. After the fall of Olympics games they were not conducted again until the late 19th century.
Modern Olympics:
It was French nobleman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who revived Olympic games (almost 1500 years after the last ancient Olympics) in 1894. The modern series of the Olympic Games started in 1896 in Athens and since then are held every four years. Separate winter Olympic Games began in 1924. Women have been competing in the Olympics since 1912. India officially participated in the Olympics for the first time in 1920 when four athletes and two wrestlers were sent to participate in the sixth Olympic Games at Antwerp, Belgium.
The Olympic Flag is made up of white silk and contains fine intertwined rings as the Olympics Emblem. From right to left the rings are Blue (for Europe), Yellow (for Asia), Black (for Africa), Red (for America) and Green (for Australia). In 1897, Father Didon composed the games motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' in Latin, which means 'Swifter, Higher and Stronger'. However, it was introduced as Olympic motto only in 1920 games.
Olympics - Where and When

Olympiad
Year
Olympics




Venue
Country
I
1896
Athens
Greece
II
1900
Paris
France
III
1904
St Louis
US
IV
1908
London
Great Britain
V
1912
Stockholm
Sweden
VI*
1916
Berlin
Germany
VII
1920
Antwerp
Belgium
VIII
1924
Paris
France
IX
1928
Amsterdam
Netherlands
X
1932
Los Angeles
US
XI
1936
Berlin
Germany
XII**
1940
Tokyo (then Helsinki)
Japan (then Finland)
XIII**
1944
London
Great Britain
XIV
1948
London
Great Britain
XV
1952
Helsinki
Finland
XVI
1956
Melbourne
Australia
XVII
1960
Rome
Italy
XVIII
1964
Tokyo
Japan
XIX
1968
Mexico City
Mexico
XX
1972
Munich
W. Germany
XXI
1976
Montreal
Canada
XXII
1980
Moscow
USSR
XXIII
1984
Los Angeles
US
XXIV
1988
Seoul
S. Korea
XXV
1992
Barcelona
Spain
XXVI
1996
Atlanta
US
XXVII
2000
Sydney
Australia
XXVIII
2004
Athens
Greece
XXIX
2008
Beijing
China (Scheduled)
XXX
2012
England
UK
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