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OLYMPIC GAMES
- 1. Olympic Games Presentation: Leousi Despina PaveliAnastasia Kopalidi Katerina
- 2. The ancient Olympicgames The first Olympic Games took place in Olympia in Eleia in 1370 B.C. To see who raised t he flame athletes ran about 185 m.The first winner was Coroebus of Eleia, in 776 B.C. The prize winners took olive branches which symbolize vitality.At first the games lasted 1 day but in 632 B.C 5 days.Women were not allowed to watch the men because they were naked. The most important thing of the Olympic Games was in the period of Pericles (490 – 429b.c.) when Athens dominated in the world of classical Greek art and culture.When the Olympic Games took place -every four years- the wars stopped. The ancient Olympic Games lasted for 1000 years, 293 total Olympiads. In 393 AD Theodosius the Great banned everything that had to do with paganism and with the continuation of the Olympic Games.
- 3. The modern Olympicgames The person who first restarted the Olympic games was Mr Pier de Coubertin after some very important ancient discoveries which were at ancient Olympia at the end of 19th century. The first country that assumed the responsibility to organize the Olympic games was Greece(Athens 1896). These games had 285 participants from 14 countries who competed in athletics, cycling , rowing, fencing, weight lifting, gymnastics, swimming ,wrestling, horse racing , sailing, tennis and shooting. Later in the program of the Olympic games three more sports, football, basketball, hokey were added.
- 4. The cities whichorganized Olympic games Athens (Greece) 1896 Paris (France) 1900 Saint Louis (USA) 1904 London (United Kingdom) 1908 Stockholm (Sweden) 1912 Amversa (Belgium) 1920 Paris (France) 1924 Amsterdam (Holland) 1928 Los Angeles (USA) 1932 Berlin (Germany) 1936 London (United Kingdom) 1948 Helsinki (Finland) 1952 Melbourne (Australia) 1956 Rome (Italia) 1960 Tokyo (Japan) 1964 Mexico City (Mexico) 1968 Munich (Germany) 1972 Montreal (Canada) 1976 Moscow (Russia) 1980 Los Angeles (USA)1984 Seoul (South Korea) 1988 Barcelona (Spain)1992 Atlanta (USA) 1996 Sidney (Australia) 2000 Athens (Greece) 2004 Beijiin (China) 2008 London (United Kingdom) 2012
- 5. The Olympic gamesin Greece The first Olympic games in Greece is in1896 The second Olympic games in Greece is in 2004
- 6. Greek Olympic winners EvaChristodoulou is a Greek former gymnast, gymnastics ("Ensemble") ,and an Olympic champion and now she is a coach. She particularly excelled at the Olympic Games in Sydney, where she won the bronze medal with the national team (Women's Ensemble) Sophia Bekatorou is a Greek sailor, an athlete of NC Tzitzifies Kallithea and twice Olympic medalist (2004, 2008). At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 she won the gold medal in 470 category. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she won a bronze medal together with Sofia Papadopoulou and Virginia Kravarioti. Pyrros Dimas is an Olympic weightlifting athlete. He is three times gold (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000) and bronze medalist once in the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. The most successful athlete in Olympic history of Greek sport he is the only weightlifter until today with three gold and one bronze Olympic medals Chrissopigi Devetzi is an athlete of triple jump and long jump, with great honors. Considered as one of the greatest athletes in the history of triplicate after holding the fourth best performance of all time in this event with 15.32 meters, she achieved performance in the triple jump qualifying at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on August 21, 2004.
- 7. Ilias Iliadis wasan olympic medalist in (2004), world champion in (2010) and twice European champion in (2004, 2011) in judo. Thomas Bimis is a medalist of synchronized diving. With his team-mate Niko Syranidi, they won the gold medal in synchronized diving 3 m springboard at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. They both have shown good performances since 2000. For the first time they took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, occupying the 36th position. Bimis had the biggest success in his career, at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. In February 2008 the two men claimed a place in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Greek Olympic winners
- 8. Greek Olympic winners VassilisPolymeros is a Greek rowing champion, twice Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008 competed in the double sculls light weight.In 1996 he took part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, and was ranked 10th. At the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000) he took the eighth place in the double sculls, along with Panagiotis Miliotis. In 2001 he won a silver medal at the World Championships in quadruple sculls lightweight along with Kourkouriki, Skiathitis and Milioti. In Olympics 2004 in Athens Vassilis Polymeros and Nikos Skiathitis won the bronze medal in the 2,000 meters, the double sculls lightweight. Anastasia (Tasoula) Kelesidou is diskobolus.I Tasoula samples showed her talent from an early age. He went to Sydney for the Olympic Games in 2000 as one of the favorites, and vindicated this title as he won the silver medal and second place in that event. After so many second and third positions in major competitions Tasoula Kelesidou searched for the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, something that seemed possible if one takes into account the performance that year (67.03 m). Passed the final and celebrated with a throw in 66.68 meters lapped until the fifth attempt, but ultimately once again won the silver medal.
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