The Olympics is a game where everyone is gathered with love, unity and courage. Each country represents their own Olympian in every game. The history of the Olympics will show you the extraordinary information where, when and how the game is represented. Take each moment to recognize how the Olympics is one of the best festival that unite the world. source: https://www.teamsportsgift.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-the-olympics

1. History of the
Olympics
Qualification
For individual sports, competitors typically qualify through
attaining a certain place in a major international event or
on the IF's ranking list.
There is a general rule that a maximum of three individual
athletes may represent each nation per competition.
National Olympic committees may enter a limited number
of qualified competitors in each event, and the NOC
decides which qualified competitors to select as
representatives in each event if more have attained the
benchmark than can be entered.
Hosting
The USA has hosted four Summer Olympic
Games, more than any other nation.
The United Kingdom hosted the 2012
Olympic games, its third Summer Olympic
Games, in its capital London, making
London the first city to host the Summer
Olympic Games three times.
Australia, France, Germany and Greece
have all hosted the Summer Olympic
Games twice.
Other countries that have hosted the
Summer Olympics are Belgium, China,
Canada, Finland, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, the Soviet
Union and Sweden.
Early years
The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1894 when
Pierre de Coubertin sought to promote international
understanding through sporting competition.
He based his Olympics on the Wenlock Olympian Society
Annual Games, which had been contested in Much
Wenlock since 1850.
Interwar era
The 1920 Antwerp games in war-ravaged Belgium
were a subdued affair, but again drew a record
number of competitors. This record only stood until
1924, when the Paris Games involved 3,000
competitors, the greatest of whom was Finnish
runner Paavo Nurmi. The "Flying Finn" won three
team gold medals and the individual 1,500 and
5,000 meter runs, the latter two on the same day.
After World War II
The first post-war Games were held in 1948 in
London, with both Germany and Japan excluded.
Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen won four gold
medals on the track, emulating Owens'
achievement in Berlin.
End of the 20th century
Following the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, 66
nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany, and
Japan, boycotted the 1980 games held in Moscow. The boycott
contributed to the 1980 Games being a less publicised and less
competitive affair, which was dominated by the host country.
New millennium
The 2000 Games were held in Sydney, Australia, and showcased individual performances by local
favorite Ian Thorpe in the pool, Briton Steve Redgrave who won a rowing gold medal in an
unprecedented fifth consecutive Olympics, and Cathy Freeman, an Indigenous Australian whose
triumph in the 400 meters united a packed stadium.
Greece spent at least $7.2 billion on the Games,
including $1.5 billion on security alone. Michael
Phelps won his first medals in Olympic Games
tallying 6 gold and 2 bronze medals. Pyrros Dimas,
winning a bronze medal, became the most
decorated weightlifter of all time with 3 golds and 1
bronze in Olympic Games. Although unfounded
and wildly sensationalized reports of potential
terrorism drove crowds away from the preliminary
competitions of the first weekend of the games (14–
15 August), attendance picked up as the games
progressed. A third of the tickets failed to sell,[16]
but still ticket sales topped figures from Seoul and
Barcelona Olympics. The IOC President Jacques
Rogge characterized Greece's organisation as
outstanding and its security precautions as flawless.
[17] The Athens Games witnessed all 202 NOCs
participate with over 11,000 participants.
Several new events were held, including the new discipline of BMX for both men and women. For the first
time, women competed in the steeplechase. The fencing program was expanded to include all six events
for both men and women. Women had not previously been able to compete in team foil or saber events
(although women's team épée and men's team foil were dropped for these Games). Marathon swimming
events, over the distance of 10 km (6.2 mi), were added. In addition, the doubles events in table tennis were
replaced by team events. American swimmer Michael Phelps set a record for gold medals at a single
Games with eight, and tied the record of most gold medals by a single competitor previously held by both
Heiden and Scherbo. Another major star of the Games was Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who became the
first male athlete ever to set world records in the finals of both the 100 and 200 metres in the same Games.
Equestrian events were held in Hong Kong.
London held the 2012
Summer Olympics,
becoming the first city
to host the Games
three times.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosted
the 2016 Summer Olympics...
In 2004 the Games returned to their
birthplace in Athens, Greece.
The 2008 Summer
Olympics were held
in Beijing, People's
Republic of China.
In his closing address Jacques Rogge
described the Games as "Happy and
Glorious". They certainly were for the host
nation who won 29 Gold Medals, the best
haul for Great Britain since the 1908 Games
in London.
It was also notable that the United States
returned to the top of the medal table after
China dominated in 2008.
The International Olympic Committee had
removed baseball and softball from the
2012 program.
On a commercial level the Games were
successful as they were the first in history to
completely sell out every ticket with as
many as 1 million applications for 40,000
tickets for both the Opening Ceremony and
the 100m Men's Sprint Final.
Such was the demand for tickets to all levels
of each event, there was controversy when
seats set aside for sponsors and National
Delegations went unused in the early days.
A system of reallocation was put in place so
the empty seats were filled throughout the
Games.
Tokyo, Japan,
will host the 2020
Summer Olympics,
making it the first
Asian city to host
the Olympic Games
twice.
becoming the third city in the Southern
Hemisphere to host the Olympic
Games (after Melbourne, Australia, in
1956 and Sydney, Australia, in 2000),
and the first South American city to
host the Olympics. In October 2009, the
IOC included golf and rugby sevens as
part of the Olympic program for Rio de
Janeiro.
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