Champion of painting ladle
Garrett from Princeton University has never thrown a discus, but he was lucky to win the championship. Garrett loves art and sports and worships the Italian Renaissance immortal work The Discus Thrower. When he learned that the Olympic Games would be held in Athens, he really wanted to take part in the competition. A friend said that he has great arm strength and can take part in the discus competition. However, the United States had not started this project at that time, and Garrett didn't even know the shape of the discus, let alone the throwing method. So he made a discus himself according to the proportion of Miron's sculpture human body to discus, and simulated the posture of the discus thrower. He fiddled around at home and hurried to Athens. It was not until the competition that he found that the discus was so light (the ancient discus was far less heavy than it is now) and light and convenient, so he threw 59.38+05 meters effortlessly and won the championship easily. The coaches and athletes on the field were stunned and puzzled by the amazing performance of the player, while the audience cheered and applauded the American novice player. Later, he won the first place in the shot put competition.
Strange starting posture
On the track and field, the dust is flying and laughter bursts. On the slightly inclined runway, the 100 meter race is going on. Among the five finalists, there is an American athlete, Todd Burke, who is wearing a distinctive vest and shorts. Compared with other athletes wearing knee-length shorts, Burke's clothing attracted bursts of laughter from the audience, and women in the audience even dared not face it. In the final, some athletes stood almost straight, some bent down, and only Burke took a starting posture similar to squatting, which aroused the audience's curiosity and laughter. However, Burke turned a deaf ear to this and won the first champion of the modern Olympic Games in 12 seconds. Burke also won the 400-meter championship in 54.2 seconds, and the audience exclaimed: "Scud, the first Scud".
Tourism champion
Tennis was listed as an official event in the first Olympic Games, but at that time, tennis was not very popular and the level of professional players was not very high. The first Olympic tennis match was held near the pillars of Cupid Temple in Athens. Boland, a student of Oxford University in England, happened to be traveling in Athens. He is a tennis enthusiast. He always takes his racket with him when he goes out to practice. This game is very intense. He also wanted to try his hand, so he signed up on the spot and swung his racket into battle. As a result, he was invincible and became the first tennis singles champion in Olympic history.
Traun, a student of Dresden Institute of Technology, was a track and field athlete and a tennis enthusiast. He took part in the track and field competition. He was eliminated in the preliminaries and met Boland by chance in Athens. Boland invited him to pair up for doubles. As a result, they won the doubles championship. Their unexpected gains in the trip are really enviable.
People are little kids.
Schumann, a small German athlete, won the wrestling competition in the first Olympic Games. On a battlefield in Panadnay Stadium in Athens, he knocked out five players from four countries. At that time, there was no heavyweight, similar to China's "hero".
Although Schumann is very light, he is no match for athletes who weigh more than tens of pounds. He fell to the ground one by one. As a result, he won the Greco-Roman wrestling championship. However, his talent is not limited to this. In the gymnastics competition, he won the vault championship again. In the horizontal bar and parallel bars team competitions, he made great contributions to the German team's championship. Schumann was the athlete who won the most championships in the first Olympic Games. Really a kid.
Argument about the venue
At the end of the game, there was another scene of fierce argument. The king of Greece proposed that the Olympic Games is a part of Greek national culture and inseparable from Greece, and Athens should be a permanent venue, otherwise it would be "an open plunder of the great and splendid Greek culture". Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, disagreed with this view. He advocated that it should be held in different countries and regions in turn, so as to break the "monopoly" restriction of one country, so as to reflect the international nature of the Olympic Games and make the Olympic Games more dynamic. Thanks to the support of most members of the National Olympic Committee, Coubertin's opinion was finally solved. The Olympic Games can be held in different countries in the world in turn.
Greece's first champion
Among the 285 athletes from 13 countries who participated in the first modern Olympic Games, the host country Greece accounted for 197, but by the end of the competition, Greek athletes did not even win a championship. The only hope left is the last marathon.
The marathon * * * has 25 participants, and almost all Athens residents are watching it. It is very lively. In order to show the grandeur of the Greek government, special cavalry led the way, and the places where the cavalry passed were dusty. The athletes found it difficult to breathe, and many people dropped out of the competition. The starting point of the competition is on a bridge named Marathon Town, and the whole journey is about 40 kilometers. This is the first official long-distance race in the world. When the runner ran to a small village called Bikani, the French runner took a big step ahead, and a few people couldn't run any more, so they were helped down.
Halfway through, American Blake took the lead, followed by French and Australian players. When we arrived at Kawati village, it was uphill. Several leading players are exhausted, and some even use walking instead of running. At this time, the Greek player Spiridon Ruiz quietly caught up from behind. At 30 kilometers, the former leading French player withdrew from the race, but Ruiz ran faster and faster, and the Australian player kept a distance of 25 meters from him. But not long after, the Australian players also failed and withdrew from the competition. It seems that no one can compete with Ruiz.
The game lasted nearly three hours, and the Greek king waited anxiously in the box of the stadium, when a messenger came to report the good news: the Greek player Spiridon Ruiz had approached the stadium. When he first ran into the arena, the audience was boiling with excitement. King George I couldn't sit still and stood up to watch. Ruiz has been exhausted from running, but with the enthusiasm of his compatriots, he still keeps a firm pace. In the last few meters, Crown Prince Constantine and Prince George excitedly accompanied him to the finish line. After crossing the finish line, Ruiz bowed to the king, and the king also stepped down from the viewing platform to meet the victorious hero. People cheered and shouted and poured into the stadium to lift Ruiz. Thank him for winning the championship for Greece. Because the marathon was set up to commemorate the legendary story that Filiz Dis, an ancient Greek hero, ran from marathon to Athens to win news. In the first modern Olympic Games, it was of great significance for the Greeks to win the championship of this event.
Princes and dignitaries are heroes.
The first king to participate in the Olympic Games was King Philip II of Macedonia. He won two commemorative coins in the carriage race of the Olympic Games 356 years ago, which is also the earliest existing Olympic commemorative coin. After Rome ruled Greece, the great dictator Neroni longed to participate in the Olympic Games. He advanced the date of the Olympic Games by one year, held the Olympic Games in 67 AD, and personally participated in the carriage race. When other contestants heard that Njogu was coming to compete with them, they all backed off. Emperor Nylon rode alone and became another champion after Philip II.
Sparta, which has a good sports tradition, also has a noteworthy figure, Princess Kunica. She defied the ban that women were not allowed to participate in the sports meeting at that time and bravely participated in the Olympic Games, becoming the first female champion in the ancient Olympic Games.
The politician who won this honor for the first time in the modern Olympic Games was Prince Olaf of Norway. He won the sailing competition in Amsterdam Olympic Games. 1957 succeeded to the throne and became king of Norway.
I would rather lose my student status in order to win the championship.
The first modern Olympic Games was held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Connolly, majoring in ancient languages at Harvard University, was eager to try after receiving the news, but the school thought that his participation would break the student status management system and oppose his participation. He refused to listen to the school's advice and resolutely went to Athens. The Olympic Games started with triple jump, and seven athletes from five countries took part in the competition. Connolly became the first champion in modern Olympic history with a score of 13.7438+0 m. When he returned home with honor, Harvard University expelled him for violating the school rules. Connolly did not give up physical training, and tried to become a well-known journalist and writer, and became close friends with his alumnus, Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. 1949 Harvard University corrected its mistakes and awarded Connolly an honorary doctorate at the age of 80 in recognition of his contribution to the modern Olympic movement.
Floating pumpkins compete for the first place in the cold water across the lane.
When the first modern Olympic Games was held, there was no swimming pool, so the swimming venue became a big problem. Everyone is arguing about this. Finally, it was decided to do it in the cold sea of Zia Bay near the mushroom cap.
The swimming lane of "swimming pool" is necessary, and pumpkins floating on the water are used as swimming lane signs. The swimming distance has not been measured, but it is estimated by feeling. 1200m Nine people signed up, but at the finish line, only five people persisted. The method of competition is even more amazing. First, athletes are taken off the coast like boats. When the starter saw that the distance was almost the same, he ordered the athletes to swim back to the shore and play freely, in order of arriving at the shore.
Help others first, champion second.
The first Olympic Games 100 km cycling race was held on the playground, not on the road. Athletes must run 300 laps on the field. Flaaming, a French player, has been in the lead from the beginning, pulling his opponent down several times. It seems that there is no big problem in winning the championship. Suddenly, he found the Greek Coletis stopped. It turned out that the car broke down. At that time, it was not allowed to change trains. If it was not repaired, it would have to be retired. Flaaming immediately stopped to help the Greek racer repair the car, and then continued his journey. Finally won the championship in 3 hours and 8 minutes 19.2 seconds!