Information about the Olympic Games

The earliest sports meeting was the ancient Olympic Games in ancient Greece.

The appearance of the ancient Olympic Games

The full name of the Olympic Games is "Olympic Games", and the word "Olympic" comes from the Greek place name "Olympia". Olympia is located in the Afis Valley, 360 kilometers southwest of Athens. It is picturesque and has a pleasant climate. The ancient Greeks built many temples here, so the ancients called this land Alphonse City, also known as "Holy Land" Olympia. According to the belief at that time, it symbolizes peace and friendship.

Ancient Greece and the Earth

People in other countries in the sea area often hold grand gatherings and engage in various entertainment and competitive activities during festivals and harvest seasons, which is very lively. At first, this kind of activity was scattered all over the country, not regularly, but the gathering in Olympia was the biggest.

In 884 BC, war broke out in ancient Greece, and wars raged everywhere, plagues ran rampant and crops failed. Greek civilians were so eager for peace that they missed the celebration of that year. Therefore, the king of Elis city-state where Olympia is located contacted the kings of other city-states, and reached an agreement to hold sports meetings in Olympia on a regular basis, and stipulated that a "Holy Truce Day" should be implemented in the sports year. The duration of the "Holy Truce Day" is three months. In the meantime, no one is allowed to start with a sword. Even the warring parties should lay down their weapons and prepare to go to Olympia for the sports meeting. Since then, there has been an all-Greece championship. By 776 BC, the safe name of the winner was recorded in words for the first time. This is what later generations called the first ancient Greek Games. Since then, this kind of competition will be held every four years. Therefore, the venue of the competition is Olympia, also known as the ancient Olympic Games, or simply the ancient Olympic Games. From 776 BC to 349 AD, the ancient Olympic Games were abolished by the emperor of the Roman Empire and held 293 times.

The ancient Olympic Games were not all interesting.

The ancient Olympic Games didn't mean joy to the ordinary Olympic audience. A typical Olympic spectator, if starting from Athens, must trudge more than half of the Peloponnesus along the rugged ancient The Way, with the hot summer sun in the Mediterranean above his head, and spend two weeks walking from Athens to Olympia with the help of mules and horses. If you come from an overseas colony, it will take longer to go by sea.

When the exhausted audience finally arrived at Olympia, the real test had just begun. The infrastructure in Olympia is extremely rudimentary, and there is only one decent hotel, which is only open to diplomatic missions and officials. The nobles with insufficient rank can only set up their own tents to solve the accommodation problem. As for the other 80,000 ordinary spectators-nearly half of them are vendors selling food and souvenirs-they have to help themselves in the wilderness near the Temple of Zeus. As a result, during the Olympic Games, it became a campsite with poor sanitary conditions.

The stadium in Olympia has no audience and no shade. For religious reasons, spectators are not allowed to wear hats at the Olympic Games. People can only stand in the middle of dusty stadiums from morning till night and be exposed to the scorching sun. Due to the cut-off of rivers and the shortage of well water supply in summer, dehydration and heatstroke often happen to the audience. At that time, Greece did not have a perfect sewage system, and the dry river bed became a temporary toilet for tens of thousands of people. The garbage is piled up on the spot, and the sanitary condition can be imagined.

It was under such conditions that the ancient Olympic Games was held for 1000 years. It is said that the mess of the Olympic Games is shocking, so that there is a saying that the master will say to the unruly slaves in a threatening tone: if you don't obey, you will be punished to watch the Olympic Games in Olympia! (Southern Weekend 8. 19 fugue)

Olympic anthem

The first modern summer Olympic Games opened in Athens on April 6th. In the opening ceremony, solemn classical strings were played, and 1958 was designated as the Olympic anthem by the International Olympic Committee. The composer of this song is Greek samaras and the lyricist is palamas.

Olympic flag

19 13, Coubertin, France, proposed to set up the flag of the International Olympic Committee, which was designed with a boundless white background and five rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red in the center from left to right, representing Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the United States in turn. A white background means that all countries can compete under their own flags. In July 2004, the Olympic Games

The Olympic flag will be raised for the first time. 1920, the Belgian Olympic Committee, which hosted the 5th Summer Olympic Games, presented the same national flag to the International Olympic Committee, which was hung during the Olympic Games and then customized. The flag was handed over from the host city of the last Olympic Games to the last Olympic Games and kept by the host city. During the competition, only borrowed items are hung in the main stadium. 1952, Oslo presented the flag of the Winter Olympics to the International Olympic Committee in the same way as the Summer Olympics. 1970, the international Olympic Committee gave the Olympic flag a new meaning in the fourth issue of Olympic review: it symbolizes the unity of five continents, and athletes gather at the Olympic Games in a fair and frank competition and friendly spirit.

Olympic flame

1934, the Athens meeting of the International Olympic Committee decided to restore the old system of the ancient Olympic Games. During the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame burned in the main stadium. The flame was taken from the Olympic Games and passed to the host country through the torch relay. Prior to this, 1928 the 9th Olympic Games was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

There is a tall tower in the main stadium, burning with fiery fireworks from beginning to end. This is the first time that this kind of activity has been held in the Olympic Games. 1936 On July 20th, Olympia held the lighting ceremony of 1 1 Summer Olympic Games. After that, everyone held the torch and ran the relay of 1 km, passing through Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia, and arrived in Berlin on 1 in August, with a total distance of 3075 km. The International Olympic Committee officially stipulates that lighting the Olympic flame is an essential ceremony for the opening ceremony of each Olympic Games. In addition, the flame is lit to commemorate the soldiers who died in World War I, and the torch relay symbolizes the spread of peace and friendship around the world.

Pierre, the founder of the modern Olympic Games? De? Coubertin

Pierre De Coubertin is the founder of the modern Olympic Games. He was born in a noble family in Paris. After graduating from high school, I went to Paris University to study law and politics, and then I went to England to study pedagogy. At that time, British outdoor sports had a great shock to Coubertin, and he was determined to

Returning to France will change France's indifference to sports, and he is more eager to expand sports exchanges around the world. 1863, Coubertin proposed to hold a competition similar to the ancient Olympic Games, but he did not copy it, but extended the ancient Olympic Games, which used to be confined to Greeks, to the whole world. Although Coubertin's idea was resisted by some opposition parties, with his unremitting efforts, representatives of 20 countries finally held the first "International Conference on Rebuilding the International Olympic Games" at the University of Paris in June 1894. On the evening of June 23, the Committee officially announced the establishment of the International Olympic Committee, which is of epoch-making significance to the development of world sports and the Olympic Movement. Many countries regard this day as a sports festival, and China also designated this day as the Olympic Day in 1986.

The history of modern Olympic Games

The Olympic Games has a history of 1200 years since it was held in Olympia, Greece in 776 AD. At that time, there were five events (including discus, javelin, long jump, running and wrestling), running, boxing, wrestling, Pankration (a mixed sport of boxing and wrestling), carriage race and horse riding.

The revival of the Olympic Games began in 1896, when Athens, Greece hosted the first modern Olympic Games. At that time, 245 athletes from 14 countries participated in the competition. Since then, the number of participating athletes, participating countries and participating events has increased day by day. In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in Australia, more than 65,438+000,000 athletes from 65,438+099 countries participated in the competition.

Winter sports first joined the Olympic Games in 1908, when it was figure skating. Ice hockey increased from 1920. 1924, the Winter Olympic Games was held in Nice, Tchami for the first time. Because 1994, the Winter Olympics is scheduled to be held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, so the current Olympic Games are held every two years, and the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics are held alternately.

The Olympic movement has a series of unique and distinctive symbols, such as the Olympic symbol, motto, Olympic flag, anthem, emblem, medal and mascot. These signs have rich cultural connotations and vividly reflect the value orientation and cultural connotation of the Olympic ideal. Today, with the continuous development of the Olympic movement, the Olympic symbol has become a household name all over the world and is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

According to the Olympic Charter, the property rights of Olympic symbols, Olympic flags, Olympic motto and Olympic anthem belong to the exclusive rights of the International Olympic Committee. The IOC may take all appropriate measures to ensure that Olympic symbols, flags, aphorisms and songs are protected by law at home and abroad. In order to strengthen the protection of Olympic intellectual property rights and Olympic symbols, and safeguard and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Olympic intellectual property rights holders and Olympic symbol rights holders, China has successively promulgated the Provisions on the Protection of Olympic Intellectual Property Rights in Beijing (Beijing Municipal Government Decree 2001+0+1) and the Regulations on the Protection of Olympic Symbols (February 2002).

The most popular symbol in the world today is the Olympic rings. With the development of the Olympic Movement, it has become an image representative of the Olympic spirit and culture. Where the five rings "turn", the Olympic movement will take root and sprout.

Speaking of the origin of the five rings, there has been such an interesting story. 1936 1 1 The torch relay was held for the first time in Berlin Olympic Games. The torch relay route starts from Olympia, leaves northern Greece, crosses Austria along the Danube, and finally enters Germany. In order to set off this symbolic activity, Carl? Tim and his colleagues arranged the ancient Greek ruins along the way almost completely according to the scene of the ancient Olympic Games. A special ceremony will be held when the torch arrives at the ancient sports ground in Panacas Mountain, Delphi. At this time, Tim had a whim, and designed and carved the five rings of the modern Olympic Movement on the four sides of a rectangular stone about 3 feet high, and put them on the starting line of the ancient sports ground. After the ceremony, the torch continued northward, but this stone as a prop was left in the ancient sports ground.

Because few people know the true identity of this stone engraved with five rings (later called "dim stone"), it has been regarded as "the remains of the ancient Olympic Games with a history of 3,000 years" for a long time. It was not until the 1960s that Greek officials in Delphi pointed out this mistake. 1972 In May, this fake cultural relic was sent to another place in Delphi-the entrance of Rome Square.

In fact, the five-ring symbol of the modern Olympic movement comes from Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Coubertin thought that the Olympic movement should have its own logo, and this idea lingered in his mind for a long time. 19 13, he finally conceived and designed the five-ring logo and the Olympic flag printed with five rings on a white background, and planned to launch this logo on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the International Olympic Committee.

1965438+June 2004/kloc-0 ~ May 23rd, the International Olympic Committee held a congress at the Sorbonne College in Paris, France, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the International Olympic Committee. At the commemorative meeting, Coubertin took out his five-ring logo and a flag printed with the five rings for everyone to show, and suggested that they should be used as symbols of the Olympic Movement. After listening to Coubertin's explanation of the five-ring symbol, the meeting decided to use the Olympic rings and the Olympic flag as the Olympic symbols.

The Olympic five-ring symbol is made up of five Olympic rings nested from left to right, which can be monochrome, blue, yellow, black, green and red. The original explanation was that the five colors represented the colors of national flags, and later the five rings with different colors were interpreted as symbols of the five continents.

The Olympic flag is 3 meters long and 2 meters wide with a white background, which symbolizes purity. Blue, yellow, black, green and red are interlocking. 19 14, the Olympic flag was raised for the first time at the Olympic Games held in Paris. 1920, the Olympic flag flew for the first time at the Summer Olympic Stadium in Antwerp. After this Olympic Games, the Belgian Olympic Committee presented the same national flag to the International Olympic Committee, which was hung during the Olympic Games and then customized. At the opening ceremony of previous Olympic Games, the flag was handed over by the last host city and kept by the host city. During the competition, only substitutes were hung in the main stadium. 1952, Oslo presented the flag of the International Olympic Committee for the Winter Olympics, which was handed over, preserved and used in the same way as the Summer Olympics.

1June, 979, the International Olympic Committee officially announced the meaning of the Olympic flag and the five rings: according to the Olympic Charter, the meaning of the Olympic flag and the five rings is: symbolizing the unity of the five continents and the gathering of athletes from all over the world in a fair and frank competition and friendly spirit at the Olympic Games.

So far, a * * has hosted 27 Olympic Games.

The first Athens Olympic Games

The Second Paris Olympic Games

The Third St. Louis Olympic Games

The 4th London Olympic Games

The Fifth Stockholm Olympic Games

The Seventh Antwerp Olympic Games

The Eighth Paris Olympic Games

The 9th Amsterdam Olympic Games

The 10 Los Angeles Olympic Games

1 1 Berlin Olympic Games

The Second World War