History Of The Olympics Games
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History of the olympics games. A festival was held at olympia on the highly civilized eastern coast of the peloponnesian peninsula. It is certain that during the midsummer of 776 b c. Held every four years between august 6 and september 19 they occupied such an important place in greek history that in late antiquity historians measured time by the interval between them an olympiad.
Although some skating events were included in the 1908 and 1920 games it was not until 1924 that the winter games were accepted as a celebration comparable to the summer games and given the official blessing of the international olympic committee ioc. The modern olympic games or olympics french. The chamonix games were originally staged as international winter sports.
At this olympic games a naked runner coroebus a cook from elis won the sole event at the olympics the stade a run of approximately 192 meters 210 yards. The olympic games began over 2 700 years ago in olympia in south west greece. The greeks loved sport and the olympic games were the biggest sporting event in the ancient calendar.
The earliest reliable date that recorded history gives for the first olympics is 776 b c although virtually all historians presume that the games began well before then. This made coroebus the very first olympic champion in history. The 2020 summer olympics in tokyo were postponed for the first time in olympics history to summer 2021 due to the covid 19 pandemic with the 2022 winter olympics being held roughly six months later in beijing.
Olympic history from the home of zeus in olympia to the modern games as a sacred place used regularly in religious ceremonies as well as playing host to the ancient games olympia was at the centre of greek civilisation. However in 1949 the international olympic committee ioc decided to unrecognize the 1906 games.
