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Introduction.
. History of The Olympic Games
. Summer Olympic Games.
Introduction
all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined. It unites people of different classes and nationalities.people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, swimming, volleyball, football, bodybuilding, etc. All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing stations, football fields. Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a part of children's daily activity in the kindergartens. Physical culture is a compulsory subject at schools and colleges.of the research subject due to the fact that professional sport is given considerable attention, too and one of the greatest professional international sport event in the world is the Olympic Games, in which thousands of athletes compete in different types of sports. The Olympic idea means friendship, fraternity and cooperation among the people of the world.main purpose is the study Summer Olympic Games and the objectives of the work are to explore the history of the Olympic Games and describe the Summer Olympics kinds of sport.
1. History of The Olympic Games
Olympic Games are an international sports festival that began in ancient Greece. The earliest reliable date that recorded history gives for the first Olympics is 776 BC, although virtually all historians presume that the Games began well before then.games were part of a festival held every fourth year for several hundred years, until they were abolished in the early Christian era in the town called Olympia on the highly civilized eastern coast of the Peloponnesian peninsula.was a great athletic festival, including competitions in wrestling, foot racing and chariot racing, rowing and others.festival remained a regularly scheduled event, taking place during the pre-Christian golden age of Greece. As a testimony to the religious nature of the Games, which were held in honor of Zeus, the most important god in the ancient Greek pantheon, all wars would cease during the contests. According to the earliest records, only one athletic event was held in the ancient Olympics-a foot race of about 183 m (200 yd), or the length of the stadium. A cook, Coroibus of Elis, was the first recorded winner. The first few Olympics had only local appeal and were limited to one race on one day; only men were allowed to compete or attend. A second race-twice the length of the stadium-was added in the 14th Olympics, and a still longer race was added to the next competition, four years later. When the powerful, warlike Spartans began to compete, they influenced the agenda. The 18th Olympics included wrestling and a pentathlon consisting of running, jumping, spear throwing, discus throwing, and wrestling. Boxing was added at the 23rd Olympiad, and the games continued to expand, with the addition of chariot racing and other sports. In the 37th Olympiad the format was extended to five days of competition.Olympic Games were very important for ancient world. In the period of Games all wars were stopped. The Games were accompanied by atrs festivals. Poets recited their poems, s...
