Amy's modern olympics

The modern olympics

The modern olympics By Amy

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

Baron Pierre de Coubertin Baron Pierre de Coubertin was born in Paris France on january 1st 1863 and died on the second of september 1937. He was the president of the international olympics committee. He started his campeign in 1892. Not many people thought it was a good idea to start up the modern olympics but then he convinced enough people.He is responsible for the start of the olympic games in 1896, Athens Greece. There were 14 countries, 245 men that competed in the olympics.

Host Cities

Host CitiesLondon have hosted the olympics twice. They have were supposed tohave hosted them 3 times but it was cancelled due to world war 2 .They hosted their ﬁrst olympics they hosted were the summerolympics that went from from April27-October31 1908.There have been 28 summer olympics, starting at Athens, Greece 1986.

Olympic Flag

Olympic FlagThe ﬁve colours on the olympic rings represent the 5 main continents inthe world. Every national ﬂag in the world has got at least one colourone the rings. The rings colours are red, black, blue, yellow, green.Olympic rings were designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

Ceremonies

CeremoniesThere are 3 olympic ceremonies, the victory,opening and closingceremonies. The opening and closing ceremonies are based on theirorigins, the origins go as far back as the ancient olympics.

The Mascot

The MascotThe 2012 olympic mascot is Wenlock andMandeville. It was designed by an Londoncreative agency Iris. In 2008 they advertised achance to design the mascot.

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