Global Olympic Sport

The Olympic Games is an international many-sport incident subdivided into summer and winter honorable events. The summer and frost games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been divided by a two year gap. The unique Olympic Games were first recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and were famous until AD 393. Interest in bracing the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his verse "Dialogue of the Dead" in 1833.[4] Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the renovation of the Panathinaiko arena for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. This was renowed in journalists and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have lately been revived near Athens". The International Olympic group was founded in 1894 on the proposal of a French nobleman, Pierre Frdy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. Involvement in the Olympic Games has amplified to include athletes from nearly all nations universal. With the improvement of satellite communications and global telecasts of the events, the Olympics are constantly gaining followers. The most modern Summer Olympics were the 2004 Games in Athens and the most recent Winter Olympics were the 2006 Games in Turin. The imminent games in Beijing are planned to comprise 302 events in 28 sports. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were perform in 84 events in 7 sports. By 2010, the Olympic Games will have been hosted by 41 conurbation in 22 countries. The forthcoming 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing, and the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver. The number in parentheses subsequent the city/country denotes how many times that city/country had then hosted the game.


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