The document summarizes the origins and history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It describes how the ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece to honor Zeus. It discusses the mottoes introduced by Pierre de Coubertin and the values of the modern Olympics. It provides details on swimming and cancellations during World Wars I and II. It also summarizes the Paralympic Games for athletes with disabilities and important facts about the six competition categories and symbols.

1. XXX Olympic
Games

2. Olympic Games Origins
The ancient Olympic Games took
place in Olympia, in the beautiful
region of Elias, in 776 BC. The first
Olympiad was named Koroibos of
Elias because he was the winner of
the stadium race in 776 BC.
These games were primarily a part of
a religious festival in honor of
Zeus, the father of all gods. The
athlets were all male citizens and
women were forbidden to compete
and were even banned from
entering the stadium to watch the
games.
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3. Motto of the Olympics
The Olympic Motto is “Citius, Altius,
Fortius” which is Latin for Swifter,
Higher, Stronger. The Motto was
proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the
creation of the International Olympic
Committee in 1894.
A more informal but well known motto,
also introduced by De Coubertin, is
“The most important thing is not to win
but to take part”. De coubertin get this
motto from a sermon by the Bishop of
Pennsylvania during the 1908 London
Games.

4. Olympic Values
The values related with
the Olympics are:

5. Logo
The chosen Logo for
us is similar to the
original one but in
colour blue,
however it
conserves its other
particularities

6. Swimming
 The swimming competition at the
2012 Olympics are scheduled to
be held:
 Pool: 28 July – 4 August 2012 at
the London Aquatics Centre, and
 Open water: on 9 & 10 August in
The Serpentine in London's Hyde
Park.
 Swimming is expected to feature
34 different events (17 male, 17
female). Two of these will be
open-water swims of 10-
kilometres in distance (10Km);
while the remaining 32 events will
be contested in a 50m, long
course pool.

7. Probihition of the
Olympics
1916-1940-1944
The Olympic games were
cancelled in 1916
because of the First
World War
Years later, the summer
and winter games of
1940 and 1944 were
cancelled because
of Second World War

8. Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a
major international multi-
sport event where athlets
with a physical disability
compete; this includes
athletes with mobility
disabilities, amputations,
blindness, and cerebral
palsy. There are Winter and
Summer Parlympic Games,
and are run in parallel with
the Olympic Games

9. Important facts
There are six categories in
which the athletes compete.
The categories are amputee,
cerebral palsy, intellectual
disability, wheelchair,
visually impaired, and Les
Autres (literally “The
Others”, which are athletes
with disabilities that do not
fall into the other five
categories; these include:
dwarfism, multiple sclerosis,
and congenital deformities)

10. Additional Information
“Spirit in Motion” is the motto for the
Paralympic movement. The symbol
for the Paralympics contains three
colors: red, blue and green, which
are the colors represented in the
flags of nations. The colors are each
in the shape of an AGITO (which is
latin for “I move”). The three Agitos
circle a central point, which is a
symbol for the athletes
congregating from all points of the
globe.

11. This presentation was
made by the journalist
team:
Carolina Corvalan
Carla Albino
Mariano Romero
Sports division
www.thetimes.olympics.com.uk