Prepared by Markaryan B.Form 10 School No 1Teacher Kurilova YuliyaPyatigorsk

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival that began in ancient Greece. They were renewed in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year. For two weeks and a half any international conflicts must be stopped and replaced with friendly competitions.

The earliest record of this games goes back to 776 BC.

The earliest record of this games goes back to 776 BC. The ancient Games were held in honour of Zeus.

Only one athletic event was held in the ancient Olympics – a footrace. Only men were allowed to compete or watch the games.

The 18th Olympics already included wrestling and pentathlon, and later Games – chariot races and other sports.

   Pierre de Pierre de Coubertin, a Coubertin, a young French young French nobleman, nobleman, had an idea to had an idea to bring the bring the Olympic Olympic Games back Games back to life. He to life. He managed to managed to organize the organize the first modern first modern Olympic Olympic Games in Games in

1896.1896.

The Athens Games in 1896 were a success.

Beginning in 1926 Winter Olympics were included. The Olympics are governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), situated in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster, "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Higher, Stronger". The motto was proposed by The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of thePierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. De International Olympic Committee in 1894. De Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other things, was an athletics enthusiast.things, was an athletics enthusiast.

A more informal but well known motto, also introduced by De Coubertin, is "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!" De Coubertin got this motto

from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 London Games.

The five Olympic rings represent the five parts of the world involved in the Olympics and were designed in 1912, adopted in June 1914 and debuted at

the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

The Olympic flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning

throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer

Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since.

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