What is the History of the Olympic Games?

Hello friends, I hope you are all fine. Sports have great importance in our world. There are many sports like cricket, football, wrestling etc. There are many sports competitions which are of great importance like the Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, and the Commonwealth Games etc.

What is the Olympics games?

The Olympic Games are a type of international competition. In which more than 200 countries participate in sports competitions. There are many sports competitions and two types of Olympic Games. There is a Summer Olympic Games and a Winter Olympics. These two Olympic games are the same. There is one in summer and one in cold. Many games take place in ice places. Athletes from all over the world compete in a variety of sports and showcase their talents and skills on the world stage. The game has a long history dating back to ancient Greece, and has since evolved into the modern Olympics as we know them today.

The Olympic Games symbol has five different colored goals. It represents five continents. In which the blue ring represents Europe. In which the Yellow Ring represents Asia, the Black Ring represents Africa, the Green Ring represents Australia, the Red Ring represents America. The symbol of the Olympic Games means Citius, Altius, Fortius means Faster, Higher, Stronger. But this symbol means a new meaning together.

There are three types of medals in the Olympics. Gold, Silver, Bronze medals are available. It has great importance in India. Athletes from around the world come together to compete in various sports disciplines and showcase their skills and abilities.

History of Olympic games

The Olympics are very old. It is a matter of 776 that the Olympic Games were started in this way. The Olympic Games were started by the people of Greece. The Olympics are named after the Olympia of the City of Greece. The people of Greece had made a rule that when the Olympic Games are held, then no one will fight this attack in any state. The people of Greece dedicated this game to their totems. In a way, he worships his deities.

For the Greeks it was a festival and dedicated to your god. Only men could participate in it. It was completely captured by the Roman Empire. Gradually, the Romans dominated the entire Roman society. In the earlier Olympic Games, there were two competitions like jumping, wrestling. The Roman Empire closed the Olympic Games and for many decades the Olympic Games were closed.

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Pierre de Coubertin was a French nobleman in the 1800s. They should have competition to see their civilization. Then on 16 June 1896, delegates from 9 countries were Belgium, England, Russia, United States of America, Sweden, Italy, France, Greece and Spain. Everyone agrees. Then everyone agreed and demanded to organize the Olympics in their city. But it started with the civilization of Greece, so it was first in Athens. After every four years, the Olympics will be held at different places.

The Olympic Games are handled by the International Olympic Community. For the first time in Athens in 1896, 13 countries participated and in which 280 people participated in the Olympic Games. In which the first medal was James B. Cannoli met and he met in Hop, Steps and Jumps. Then the Second Olympic Games were held in Paris and in which Ladies participated and India also played the first Olympics in 1900 itself.

2the History of the Olympic Games France won all the gold medals in the Olympic Games in 1900. In 1924, the Winter Olympics started. Then the Olympic Games were postponed in World War I and World War II. Then his consecutive Olympic Games were organized. But today they were canceled due to an epidemic of coronavirus. But a year later, i.e. this year, the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo. America(2520) has won the most Olympic medals, the Russians(1865), China( 543) Germany (1681) etc have won the medals at the 2016 Olympic games.

India’s performance in Olympic games

India has won a total of 35 Olympic medals. In which 10 gold medals, 9 silver medals, 16 bronze medals have been won. In which only the hockey team has got 8 gold medals. Abhinav Bindra got the gold medal in shooting. Norman Pritchard has won the silver medal in running. The hockey team, Rajvardhan Singh Rathore and Vijay Kumar won silver medals in shooting

Sushil Kumar won Wrestling, P V Sindhu won silver medals in badminton. Bronze medal Leander Paes won the medal in weightlifting, KD Jadav won the medal in wrestling. Sushil Kumar Wrestling, Karnam Malleswari Weightlifting, Vijender Singh Boxing, Gagan Narang Rifle Shooting won Bronze Medals. Indian hockey team twice, Mary Kom won flyweight boxing, Yogeshwar Dutt wrestling, Saina Nehwal badminton, Sakshi Malik won bronze medals in wrestling.

Neeraj Chopra has won one Gold Medal in Tokyo Olympics 2020 in Javelin Throw. Silver Medal Mirabai Charu has won in Weightlifting, Ravi Kumar Dahiya in Wrestling. Bronze medal Pav Sindhu won in Badminton, Lovlina Borgohain in Welterweight Boxing. Bajrang Punia has won the bronze medal in wrestling and the Indian hockey team has also won.

Information

Pierre de Coubertin is considered the founder of the Olympic Games.

The thickness of the medal is 3mm and the diameter is 60mm. In which the silver medal has 9.5 percent silver and the gold medal has 6 grams of gold.

According to the rules of the Olympic Games, the country does not get the opportunity to conduct the Olympic Games, it is the place of the city.

Michael Phillips has won the most Olympic medals in swimming at 28 medals. In which 23 gold medals, 3 silver medals, 2 bronze medals have been won, only then they are called Olympic legends.

Everyone must have heard the name of Usain Bolt and he is also a very big legend. Usain Bolt has won 8 gold medals running.

I hope you like this information and it will be very useful for you. Well, we are proud of these people. All these people represent our India and illuminate the name of our country.

Which country has won the most Olympics?
America is the country to win the most Olympic medals. America has won about 113 medals. this is a great record.

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