51 Facts About Olympics Games

The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating.

Olympics Games have grown so much that nearly every nation is represented; colonies and overseas territories are allowed to field their own teams.

The Olympics Games provide an opportunity for the host city and country to showcase themselves to the world.

Ancient Olympic Olympics Games were religious and athletic festivals held every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia, Greece.

Origin of the Olympics is shrouded in mystery and legend; one of the most popular myths identifies Heracles and his father Zeus as the progenitors of the Games.

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The Ancient Olympics Games featured running events, a pentathlon, boxing, wrestling, pankration, and equestrian events.

Olympics Games were of fundamental religious importance, featuring sporting events alongside ritual sacrifices honouring both Zeus and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia.

The Olympics Games were held every four years, and this period, known as an Olympiad, was used by Greeks as one of their units of time measurement.

The 1796 Olympics Games marked the introduction of the metric system into sport.

Greek interest in reviving the Olympic Olympics Games began with the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

Olympics Games presented these ideas during the first Olympic Congress of the newly created International Olympic Committee.

The Olympics Games brought together 14 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events.

The IOC intended for subsequent Olympics Games to be rotated to various host cities around the world.

The Olympic Olympics Games held at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis in 1904 failed to attract much participation or notice.

The Games rebounded with the 1906 Intercalated Games, which were held in Athens.

The 1906 Olympics Games were officially recognised by the IOC at the time, and no Intercalated Olympics Games have been held since.

Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games.

The IOC mandated that the Winter Olympics Games be celebrated every four years in the same year as their summer counterpart.

In 1960, Guttmann brought 400 athletes to Rome to compete in the "Parallel Olympics Games", which ran in parallel with the Summer Olympics Games and came to be known as the first Paralympics.

In 2010, the Olympic Olympics Games were complemented by the Youth Olympics Games, which give athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 the chance to compete.

The Youth Olympic Olympics Games were conceived by IOC president Jacques Rogge in 2001 and approved during the 119th Congress of the IOC.

The first Summer Youth Olympics Games were held in Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010, while the inaugural Winter Olympics Games were hosted in Innsbruck, Austria, two years later.

Summer Olympics Games have grown from 241 participants representing 14 nations in 1896, to more than 11,200 competitors representing 207 nations in 2016.

The 1984 Summer Olympics are often considered the most financially successful modern Olympics and a model for future Games.

Many economists are sceptical about the economic benefits of hosting the Olympic Olympics Games, emphasising that such "mega-events" often have large costs while yielding relatively few tangible benefits in the long run.

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Conversely hosting the Olympics appears to increase the host country's exports, as the host or candidate country sends a signal about trade openness when bidding to host the Games.

Games have had significant negative effects on host communities; for example, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions reports that the Olympics displaced more than two million people over two decades, often disproportionately affecting disadvantaged groups.

Furthermore, at least four cities withdrew their bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics Games, citing the high costs or the lack of local support, resulting in only a two-city race between Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing, China.

Nevertheless, from sporting and business standpoints, the 2002 Olympics were one of the most successful Winter Games in history; records were set in both the broadcasting and marketing programs.

Olympics Games cited French president Jacques Chirac as a witness; Chirac gave guarded interviews concerning his involvement but the allegation was never fully explored.

In 2020, a group of Oxford University scholars documented high costs and cost overruns for the Olympics Games and criticised the IOC for not taking enough responsibility for controlling increasing costs.

Under the leadership of Juan Antonio Samaranch the Olympics Games began to shift toward international sponsors who sought to link their products to the Olympic brand.

The sale of broadcast rights enabled the IOC to increase the exposure of the Olympic Olympics Games, thereby generating more interest, which in turn enhanced the appeal of TV air time to the advertisers.

The argument is that the Olympics Games have become indistinguishable from any other commercialised sporting spectacle.

Much Wenlock still hosts the Wenlock Olympian Olympics Games, which were an inspiration to Pierre de Coubertin for the Olympic Olympics Games.

The president of the organising committee and the IOC president make their closing speeches, the Olympics Games are officially closed, and the Olympic flame is extinguished.

The Summer Olympics Games programme includes 26 sports, while the Winter Olympics Games programme features 15 sports.

Olympics Games's medals were posthumously restored by the IOC in 1983 on compassionate grounds.

Olympic Olympics Games have been used as a platform to promote political ideologies almost from its inception.

Germany was the most successful nation at the Olympics Games, which did much to support their allegations of Aryan supremacy, but notable victories by African American Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals, and Hungarian Jew Ibolya Csak, blunted the message.

Olympics Games's protest was repeated when she accepted her medal for her floor exercise routine when the judges changed the preliminary scores of the Soviet Larisa Petrik to allow her to tie with Caslavska for the gold.

Olympics Games was officially cleared of intentionally avoiding the bout, but his receipt of the prize money raised suspicion.

Russia was partially banned from the 2016 Summer Olympics Games and was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics Games due to the state-sponsored doping programme.

Brunei had taken part in only three celebrations of the Olympics Games, sending a single athlete on each occasion, but Saudi Arabia and Qatar had been competing regularly with all-male teams.

In 2008, Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, likewise called for Saudi Arabia to be barred from the Olympics Games, describing its ban on women athletes as a violation of the International Olympic Committee charter.

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At the 2012 Summer Olympics Games, every participating nation included female athletes for the first time in Olympic history.

In preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics Games in Sochi, the Russian Olympic Committee naturalised a South Korean-born short-track speed-skater, Ahn Hyun-soo, and an American-born snowboarder, Vic Wild.

One of the most famous cases of changing nationality for the Olympics Games was Zola Budd, a South African runner who emigrated to the United Kingdom because there was an apartheid-era ban on the Olympics Games in South Africa.

Host city for an Olympic Olympics Games had historically been chosen seven to eight years ahead of their celebration.

The 2020 Summer Olympics Games were held in Tokyo in 2021 due to postponement from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The other nations hosting multiple Winter Olympics Games are France with three, while Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Japan, Canada and Italy have hosted twice.