First Olympic Games The Olympic Games were a

series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states of Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. Historical records indicate that they began in 776 BC in Olympia. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 394 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of Rome.

OLYMPIC GAMES

The modern Olympic Games is the leading international sporting

event featuring summer and winter

sports competitions in which thousands of

athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are

considered to be the world's foremost sports competition with more

than 200 nations participating.

Summer Olympics

Table Tennis Table tennis

competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for men and women. Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 47 medals in 27 events, including 24 gold medals.

Taekwondo

Taekwondo made its first appearance at the Summer Olympic Games as a demonstration sport at the 1998 Summer Olympics  in Seoul, South Korea. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in unison. Taekwondo was again a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event which occurs once every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating.

Ice hockey Ice hockey tournaments

have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was transferred permanently to the Winter Olympic Games program in 1924, in France. The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics. 

Ski jumping Ski jumping has been

included in the program of every Winter Olympic Games. From 1924 through 1956, the competition involved jumping from one hill whose length varied from each edition games to the next. Most historians have placed this length at 70 meters and have classified this as the large hill.

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