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Olympic Games

Citius,  Altius,  Fortius  ( faster,  higher,  stronger)

Summer games

• 1896   Athens, Greece

• 1900   Paris, France

• 1904  St.Louis, USA

• 1908  London, England

• 1912  Stockholm, Sweden

• 1920  Antwerp, Belgium

• 1924  Paris, France

• 1928  Amsterdam, Netherland

• 1932  Los Angeles, USA

• 1936  Berlin, Germany

• 1948  London, England

• 1952  Helsinki, Finland

• 1956  Melbourne, Australia

• 1960  Rome, Italy

• 1964  Tokyo, Japan

• 1968  Mexico City, Mexico

• 1972  Munich, Germany

• 1976  Montreal, Canada

• 1980  Moscow, USSR

• 1984  Los Angeles, USA

• 1988  Seoul, South Korea

• 1992  Barcelona, Spain

• 1996  Atlanta, USA

• 2000  Sydney, Australia

• 2004  Athens, Greece

• 2008   Beijing, China

• 2012   London,  England

The world’s greatest international sports games are known as the Olympic Games.

The Olympic idea means friendship, fraternity and cooperation among the people of the world.

The Olympic Movement proves that real peace can be achieved through sport.

The Olympic emblem is five interlinked rings: blue, yellow, black, green and red. Any national flag contains at least one of these colours.

  The original Olympic Games began in ancient Greece in 776 B.C. These games were part of a festival held every fourth year in honor of God Zeus at the place called Olympia. It was a great athletic festival, including competitions in wrestling, foot racing and chariot racing, rowing and others. The games were for men only. Greek women were forbidden not only participate but also to watch the Olympics.

  The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896. Then they were resumed in London after the SecondWorld War. Since then the Olympics are held every fourth year in different countries.

  The ancient Greeks had no winter sports. Only in 1924 the first Winter Olympic Games were held in France. Now they are being held regularly.

1.     What are the world’s greatest sports games?
2. What does the Olympic  idea mean?
3. What  is the Olympic emblem?
4. Why have these colours been chosen?
5. When and where did the original Olympic games begin?
6. Did women participate in the game?
7. When were the first modern Olympic games held? Where?
8. Are the Olympics held in the same places?

When did the Winter Olympic games start? Where?

Winter games

• 1924  Chamonix, France

• 1928  St.Moritz, Switzerland

• 1932  Lake Placid, USA

• 1936  Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

• 1948  St.Moritz, Switzerland

• 1952  Oslo, Norway

• 1956  Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy

• 1960  Squaw Valley, USA

• 1964  Insbruck, Austria

• 1968  Grenoble, France

• 1972  Sapporo, Japan

Pierre de Coubertin, a  young French nobleman, had  an idea to bring the Olympic Games back to life.

He managed to organize the first Olympic Games in 1896.

 Greece was the right place to host the first Olympic Games. 

Paralympic  Games

• Paralympic Games, athletic competition for people with disabilities: amputees, impaired vision, cerebral palsy.

• The Paralympic Games originated in 1948 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England. They were the outcome of work that had begun with the general rehabilitation of military veterans who suffered spinal injuries in World War II (1939-1945).

• The inspiration behind the Paralympics came from Ludwig Guttman, a Jewish neurologist and refugee from Nazi Germany.

• Beginning in 1952 the Paralympics were staged in Olympic years.

•  In 1960 the first official Paralympic Games took place in Rome, Italy, where 23 nations and 400 athletes competed.

• Winter Paralympics were first held in 1976. In 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, 3,500 athletes from 82 nations competed at the Summer Paralympics.

• 1976  Insbruck, Austria

• 1980  Lake Placid, USA

• 1984  Saraevo,  Yugoslavia

• 1988  Calgary, Canada

• 1992  Albertville, France

• 1994  Lillehammer, Norway    NB!

• 1998  Nagano, Japan

• 2002  Salt Lake City, USA

• 2006  Turin, Italy

• 2010  Vancuver, Canada

• 2014  Sochi, Russia