The Ancient Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held in Olympia, Greece between various city-states and kingdoms. They were held every four years from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD, when they were ended by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. A legend attributes the founding of the Olympics to the god Heracles. The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1896 in Athens by Pierre de Coubertin, who was inspired by the Wenlock Olympian Society in England. The first modern Games brought together 14 nations and 241 athletes competing in 43 events.
The team at Lemon.ly is very excited for the 2012 London Olympics. As we count down the days to the start of the Olympic Games we started asking a few questions about Olympic history. In this graphical presentation, Lemon.ly presents a few Olympic Games Fast Facts to get you excited.
History of the Ancient Olympic Games – Mocomi.comMocomi Kids
The Ancient Olympic games were a religious celebration as well as a sporting event. They were held to honour Zeus, the King of the Gods and since they occurred every 4 years, were also used to count the passing of years. Read more about the history of the Ancient Olympic Games, visit: http://mocomi.com/ancient-olympic-games/
The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee.
The London 2012 Olympic Games will be the tenth Olympic Games (counting both Summer and Winter Games) where Panasonic's digital technologies will be used as the official recording format, dating since the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.
Do you know where the first Olympic Game was held? Do you want to know what countries hosted the Olympic Games through time? Read this infographic and find out more!
The team at Lemon.ly is very excited for the 2012 London Olympics. As we count down the days to the start of the Olympic Games we started asking a few questions about Olympic history. In this graphical presentation, Lemon.ly presents a few Olympic Games Fast Facts to get you excited.
History of the Ancient Olympic Games – Mocomi.comMocomi Kids
The Ancient Olympic games were a religious celebration as well as a sporting event. They were held to honour Zeus, the King of the Gods and since they occurred every 4 years, were also used to count the passing of years. Read more about the history of the Ancient Olympic Games, visit: http://mocomi.com/ancient-olympic-games/
The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee.
The London 2012 Olympic Games will be the tenth Olympic Games (counting both Summer and Winter Games) where Panasonic's digital technologies will be used as the official recording format, dating since the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.
Do you know where the first Olympic Game was held? Do you want to know what countries hosted the Olympic Games through time? Read this infographic and find out more!
Olympics The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.
Indian athletes have won 35 medals, all at the Summer Games. For a period of time, the Indian Men's Field Hockey Team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning eleven medals in twelve Olympics between 1928 and 1980. The run included eight gold medals of which six were won consecutively from 1928 to 1956 The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.
Indian athletes have won 35 medals, all at the Summer Games. For a period of time, the Indian Men's Field Hockey Team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning eleven medals in twelve Olympics between 1928 and 1980. The run included eight gold medals of which six were won consecutively from 1928 to 1956Despite being under British rule until 1947, India participated in the Olympic Games separately from the British Olympic Team. India sent its first athlete to the Summer Olympics for the 1900 Games, but an Indian national team did not compete at the Summer Olympics until 1920. Ahead of the 1920 Games, Sir Dorabji Tata and Governor of Bombay George Lloyd helped India secure representation at the International Olympic Committee, enabling it to participate in the Games (see India at the 1920 Olympic Games). India then sent a team to the 1920 Olympics, comprising three athletes, two wrestlers, and managers Sohrab Bhoot and A. H. A. Fyzee. The Indian Olympic movement was then established during the 1920s: some founders of this movement were Dorabji Tata, A.G. Noehren (Madras College of Physical Education), H.C. Buck (Madras College of Physical Education), Moinul Haq (Bihar sports associations), S. Bhoot (Bombay Olympic Association), A.S. Bhagwat (Deccan Gymkhana), and Guru Dutt Sondhi (Punjab Olympic Association); Lt. Col H.L.O. Garrett (from the Government College Lahore and Punjab Olympic Association) and Sagnik Poddar (of St. Stephen's School) helped organise some early national games; and prominent patrons included Maharajas and royal princes such as Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Kapurthala, and the Maharaja of Burdwan.In 1923, a provisional All India Olympic Committee was formed, and in February 1924, the All India Olympic Games (that later became the National Games of India) were held to select a team for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The Indian delegation at the Paris Olympics comprised seven athletes, seven tennis players and team manager Harry Buck.In 1923, a provisional All India Olympic Committee was formed, and in February 1924, the All India Olympic Games (that later became the National Games of India) were held to select a team for the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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1. Ancient Olympics
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The Ancient Olympic Games were a series of competitions held between
representatives of several city-states and kingdoms from Ancient
Greece, which featured mainly athletic but also combat and chariot
racing events. During the Olympic games all struggles against the
participating city-states were postponed until the games were finished.[3]
The origin of these Olympics is shrouded in mystery and legend. [4] One
of the most popular myths identifies Heracles and his father Zeus as the
progenitors of the Games.[5][6][7] According to legend, it was Heracles who
first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding
them every four years.[8] A legend persists that after Heracles completed
his twelve labors, he built the Olympic stadium as an honor to Zeus.
Following its completion, he walked in a straight line for 200 steps and
called this distance a "stadion" (Greek: ζηάδιον, Latin: stadium, "stage"),
which later became a unit of distance. Another myth associates the first
Games with the ancient Greek concept of Olympic truce (ἐκεχειρία,
ekecheiria).[9] The most widely accepted date for the inception of the
Ancient Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at
Olympia, of the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in
776 BC.[10] The Ancient Games featured running events, a pentathlon
(consisting of a jumping event, discus and javelin throws, a foot race and
wrestling), boxing, wrestling, pankration, and equestrian events.[11][12]
Tradition has it that Coroebus, a cook from the city of Elis, was the first
Olympic champion.[13]
The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, featuring
sporting events alongside ritual sacrifices honoring both Zeus (whose
famous statue by Phidias stood in his temple at Olympia) and Pelops,
divine hero and mythical king of Olympia. Pelops was famous for his
chariot race with King Oenomaus of Pisatis.[14] The winners of the events
were admired and immortalized in poems and statues.[15] The Games
were held every four years, and this period, known as an Olympiad, was
used by Greeks as one of their units of time measurement. The Games
were part of a cycle known as the Panhellenic Games, which included
the Pythian Games, the Nemean Games, and the Isthmian Games.[16]
The Olympic Games reached their zenith in the 6th and
5th centuries BC, but then gradually declined in importance as the
2. Romans gained power and influence in Greece. There is no consensus
on when the Games officially ended, the most common-held date is
393 AD, when the emperor Theodosius I declared that all pagan cults
and practices be eliminated.[17] Another date cited is 426 AD, when his
successor Theodosius II ordered the destruction of all Greek temples.[18]
After the demise of the Olympics, they were not held again until the late
19th century.
Modern Games
Forerunners
Further information: Wenlock Olympian Society Annual
Games and Zappas Olympics
The first significant attempt to emulate the ancient Olympic Games was
the L'Olympiade de la République, a national Olympic festival held
annually from 1796 to 1798 in Revolutionary France.[19] The competition
included several disciplines from the ancient Greek Olympics. The 1796
Games also marked the introduction of the metric system into sport.[19]
In 1850 an Olympian Class was started by Dr William Penny Brookes at
Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, England. In 1859, Dr Brookes changed
the name to Wenlock Olympian Games. This annual sports festival
continues to this day.[20] The Wenlock Olympian Society was founded by
Dr. Brookes on November 15, 1860.[21]:28
Between 1862 and 1867, Liverpool held an annual Grand Olympic
Festival. Devised by John Hulley and Charles Melly, these games were
the first to be wholly amateur in nature and international in outlook,
although only 'gentlemen amateurs' could compete.[22][23] The programme
of the first modern Olympiad in Athens in 1896 was almost identical to
that of the Liverpool Olympics.[24] In 1865 Hulley, Dr. Brookes and E.G.
Ravenstein founded the National Olympian Association in Liverpool, a
forerunner of the British Olympic Association. Its articles of foundation
provided the framework for the International Olympic Charter.[25] In 1866,
a national Olympic Games in Great Britain was organized at London's
Crystal Palace.[26]
3. Revival
Greek interest in reviving the Olympic Games began with the Greek War
of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821. It was first proposed
by poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem "Dialogue
of the Dead", published in 1833.[21]:1 Evangelis Zappas, a wealthy Greek-
Romanian philanthropist, first wrote to King Otto of Greece, in 1856,
offering to fund a permanent revival of the Olympic Games.[21]:14 Zappas
sponsored the first Olympic Games in 1859, which was held in an Athens
city square. Athletes participated from Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
Zappas funded the restoration of the ancient Panathenaic stadium so
that it could host all future Olympic Games.
The Panathinaiko Stadium hosted Olympics in 1870 and 1875. Thirty
thousand spectators attended that Games in 1870 though no official
attendance records are available for the 1875 Games.[21]:44 In 1890, after
attending the Olympian Games of the Wenlock Olympian Society, Baron
Pierre de Coubertin was inspired to found the International Olympic
Committee (IOC).[27] Coubertin built on the ideas and work of Brookes
and Zappas with the aim of establishing internationally rotating Olympic
Games that would occur every four years.[27] He presented these ideas
during the first Olympic Congress of the newly created International
Olympic Committee. This meeting was held from June 16 to June 23,
1894, at the Sorbonne University in Paris. On the last day of the
Congress, it was decided that the first Olympic Games, to come under
the auspices of the IOC, would take place in Athens in 1896.[28] The IOC
elected the Greek writer Demetrius Vikelas as its first president.[21]:100–105
1896 Games
The first Games held under the auspices of the IOC was hosted in the
Panathenaic stadium in Athens in 1896. These Games brought together
14 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events.[29] Zappas and
his cousin Konstantinos Zappas had left the Greek government a trust to
fund future Olympic Games. This trust was used to help finance the 1896
Games.[21]:117[30][31] George Averoff contributed generously for the
refurbishment of the stadium in preparation for the Games.[21]:128 The
Greek government also provided funding, which was expected to be
recouped through the sale of tickets to the Games and from the sale of
the first Olympic commemorative stamp set.
4. The Greek officials and public were enthusiastic about the experience of
hosting these Games. This feeling was shared by many of the athletes,
who even demanded that Athens be the host of the Olympic Games on a
permanent basis. The IOC did not approve this request. The committee
planned that the modern Olympics would rotate internationally. As such
they decided to hold the second Games in Paris.
Changes and adaptations
After the success of the 1896 Games, the Olympics entered a period of
stagnation that threatened their survival. The Olympic Games held at the
Paris Exposition in 1900 and the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904 were
side-shows. The Games at Paris did not have a stadium; however, this
was the first time women took part in the games. The St. Louis Games
hosted 650 athletes, but 580 were from the United States. The
homogeneous nature of these celebrations was a low point for the
Olympic Movement.[33] The Games rebounded when the 1906
Intercalated Games (so-called because they were the second Games
held within the third Olympiad) were held in Athens. These Games are
not officially recognized by the IOC and no Intercalated Games have
been held since. These Games, which were hosted at the Panathenaic
stadium in Athens, attracted a broad international field of participants,
and generated great public interest. This marked the beginning of a rise
in both the popularity and the size of the Olympics.[34]