the olyimpics

One of the pan-Hellenic rituals observed by all Greek city-states; involved athletic competitions and ritual celebrations. (p. 132)

DID YOU KNOW THAT… For unknown reasons, El Salvador did not compete at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Canada.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…The 1988 Olympic Games were boycotted by seven socialist nations, including Cuba, Seychelles, Nicaragua, North Korea, Ethiopia, Albania , and Madagascar. The 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…The United Kingdom competed at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, USSR (currently Russia,Ukraine,Estonia…)
DID YOU KNOW THAT…Officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee(IOC), Jamaican Olympic Committee is the sole sports organization with exclusive powers to organize delegations from Jamaica at the Pan American Games, the Central and Caribbean Games, the Commonwealth Games, the Olympic Games…
DID YOU KNOW THAT…Bangladesh competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics for the first time ever.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…For political reasons, Taiwan did not compete at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Canada.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…Since 1984, Taiwan has competed at the Olympic Games under the banner of “Chinese Taipei”.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…The 1980 Summer Olympics were boycotted by 66 nations and territories, including the United States, Albania, Argentina, Bermuda, Belize, Bolivia,Canada, Chile, Egypt, El Salvador, West Germany (currently Germany), Haiti, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, South Korea, Norway, New Zealand, Paraguay, Thailand, Uruguay and the People´s Republic of China.The American-led boycott affected competition in most sports: track and field, soccer, archery, field hockey, judo, basketball and volleyball.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…The 1976 Olympic Games were boycotted by 34 Third World countries, including Iraq, Guyana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire.Under the leadership of Julyus Nyerere (former dictator of Tanzania), 34 African countries boycotted the Games to protest New Zealand´s violation of the international sports ban on South Africa. The International Committee Olympic ousted South Africa in 1961 for its apartheid policies.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…London will host the 2012 Olympic Games. In 2005, London defeated Paris to 2012 Games. Tony Blair, who is prime minister of the United Kingdom, said, “It´s more than half a century since Britain last hosted the Games. Olympic historians will know how important the 1908 and 1948 London Games were in ensuring the Olympic Movement was equipped and strengthened to continue its vital role. Staging the Games again in London, the city which most excites young people the world over, can only help to strengthen the bond between the Olympic Movement and the younger generation…”
DID YOU KNOW THAT…The USSR competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul,South Korea.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics were boycotted by 18 nations, including Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, East Germany (currently Germany), Hungary, Iran, Laos, Lybia, Mongolia, Poland, North Korea, Czechoslovakia (currently Czech Republic), Burkina Faso, South Yemen,Cuba, and Vietnam.

About the Olympic Rings

The five Olympic rings or circles, linked together to represent the sporting friendship of all peoples. They also symbolize 5 geographic areas-Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. Each ring is a different color-blue, yellow, black, green, or red.The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp,1920.
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The olympics started in Greece. There is a Summer and Winter season. The Olympics is held every 4 years. The next winter olympics will be in 2010. The different sports and catagories are Alpine skiing, Alpine skiing(paralympic), Biathlon, Biathlon(paralympics), bobsleigh, cross country skiing, cross country skiing paralympic, curling, figure skating, free style skiing, ice hockey, ice sledge hockey, luge, nordic combined, short track speed skiing, skeleton, Ski jumping, snowboard, speed skating, wheel chair curling


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The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games[1]) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad[2]). Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated two years apart.
The original Olympic Games (Greek: Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες; Olympiakoi Agones) began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and was celebrated until AD 393.[3] Interest in reviving the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem "Dialogue of the Dead" in 1833. [4] Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. [4] This was noted in newspapers and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have recently been revived! Here is strange news indeed ... the classical games of antiquity were revived near Athens". [5]
The International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894 with the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. Participation in the Olympic Games has increased to include athletes from nearly all nations worldwide. With the improvement of satellite communications and global telecasts of the events, the Olympics are consistently gaining supporters.[6] The most recent Summer Olympics were the 2004 Games in Athens and the most recent Winter Olympics were the 2006 Games in Turin. The upcoming games in Beijing are planned to comprise 302 events in 28 sports.[7] As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were competed in 84 events in 7 sports.[8]

The Olympics

Olympics are held every 4 years.They were first held in Ancient Greece;in ancient times woman\girls could not compete.