International Olympic Games
Author: robert | Posted: 05.08.2008The Olympic Games is an international many-sport event subdivided into summer and winter honorable events. The summer and frost games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, they were together held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated by a two year slit.
The original Olympic Games were first recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and were famous until AD 393. Interest in reviving the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his verse "Dialogue of the departed" in 1833.[4] Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the restoration of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. This was noted in newspapers and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have lately been revived near Athens".
The International Olympic team was founded in 1894 on the scheme 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. Involvement in the Olympic Games has amplified to include athletes from nearly all nations wide-reaching. With the improvement of satellite communications and global telecasts of the events, the Olympics are consistently gaining supporters. 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 intended to comprise 302 events in 28 sports. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were participant in 84 events in 7 sports. Through 2010, the Olympic Games will have been hosted by 41 capital in 22 countries. The forthcoming 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing, and the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver. The number in parentheses subsequent the city/country denotes how many times that city/country had then hosted the game.
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Bruno Silva is the writer of Jesse Owens. You can find more information about Jesse Owens at History of Jesse Owens and Jesse Owens Olympic Achievements.
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