Olympic Games 2025, January
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The tradition of hosting the Olympic Games was revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin at the end of the 19th century. Since that time, their own customs and traditions of the Olympics have developed, which are different from those that existed in Ancient Greece
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The list of sports called Olympic sports is regularly updated with new disciplines. True, this is happening rather slowly. And representatives of many sports federations dream of their favorite type of competition included in the Olympic program
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There are only a few months left before the Winter Olympic Games will open in the Russian resort town of Sochi on the Black Sea coast. Hosting sports on such a grand scale is not an easy task. Therefore, quite natural questions arise: whether the sports facilities are conveniently located in terms of accessibility, whether the transport problem has been solved, whether there are enough hotels to accommodate athletes and fans
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The organization of the Olympic Games is not only a troublesome and responsible business, these are tasks that go far beyond the legal field of one state, and therefore international experts and advisers are involved in the work. To coordinate their work, as well as to control the quality of preparation for the Olympics, special governing bodies have been created
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Hosting the modern Olympic Games is fraught with hassle and colossal financial costs. In the city where the competition will be held, it is necessary either to build new sports facilities, or to modernize the existing ones, and at the most modern level
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Despite the fact that one of the most important goals of the modern Olympic movement is the establishment of friendship, equality and mutual understanding between representatives of different countries, athletes still strive primarily for victory in competitions
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1980 in the history of the modern Olympic movement is best known for the boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics, but the Winter Games were also held in the same year. They took place at the beginning of the year in the American city of Lake Placid and were not accompanied by any political collisions
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The XXX Summer Olympic Games in London kicked off on 25 July with a closing ceremony on 12 August. A total of 302 sets of medals will be played in 39 sports disciplines in 26 sports. From the very beginning of the Olympics, a stubborn struggle unfolded both in the individual championship and in the overall medal standings
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The next summer Olympic Games, the thirtieth in a row, will be held in London from July 27 to August 12, 2012. London has already hosted the Olympics twice - in 1908 and 1948, and will be the first city to host it three times. He was awarded this honor in a difficult struggle with four contenders:
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Since 2008, a new sport has been included in the Summer Olympic Games program - BMX. This is one of the most popular extreme entertainment in the United States, while in Russia it is just beginning to gain momentum. The name BMX comes from the English phrase Bicycle Motocross, it is a stunt ride on special bicycles
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At the XXX Olympic Games in London, for three weeks, the best athletes from all over the world competed among themselves for gold medals to bring their national team to the first place in the standings. Moreover, on the way to victory, some of them managed to set new world records
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The Olympiads are still the most spectacular and major event in the world of sports. Every fan dreams of getting to these competitions at least once in their life. The 2012 Summer Olympics will be held in London, which is always waiting for tourists and sports enthusiasts
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Despite the fact that the athletes of the Soviet Union won the lion's share of medals at every Olympics for forty years, the largest sports forum on the planet was held in the USSR only once. This happened in 1980, when the Games of the XXII Summer Olympics were held in Moscow and several other cities of the Soviet Union
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The most successful Olympic Games for the USSR national team can be determined by the percentage of gold medals in the total number of sets played. This relative value more accurately reflects the successes of Soviet sports than the absolute value, since in different years the number of medals played has changed
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Fire is one of the most famous symbols of the Olympic Games. A person who watched the opening of the Olympics saw an athlete appear at the stadium with a burning torch, and how a huge container - the bowl of the Olympic flame - lit up from this torch
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The Olympic Games are the most significant and popular sporting events. To become the winner of the Olympics is the greatest honor for an athlete. Suffice it to say that the title "Olympic champion" is a lifelong title, in contrast to the title of world or European champion
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The Olympic Games began to be held in the 8th century BC. on the territory of Ancient Greece in the region of Olympia, which was considered at that time a sacred place. There are several legends about their origin, the main of which is the legend of King Iphite, who was instructed by the priestess of Apollo to hold athletic festivities in honor of the Olympic gods
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A high-profile event in the history of the modern Olympic movement took place at the VII Winter Games in 1956. Then, for the first time, athletes from the USSR took part in the Olympiads, who then for forty years remained in the first roles in these sports performances
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In the last decade of the last century, five Olympiads took place - two summer and three winter. During this period, the collapse of the Soviet Union finally took shape, and the newly formed states, including Russia, began to take part in the Olympic Games
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The Winter Olympic Games are one of the most spectacular sporting events, and there is always a serious struggle for the right to host them. Sometimes the winner is determined by a few votes. However, Austria's Innsbruck, the capital of the 1964 Winter Games, beat its competitors with a clear advantage
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The Winter Olympic Games are one of the world's most significant sporting events. Representatives of dozens of countries take part in them, sports competitions are broadcast all over the world. One of the brightest in the history of sports was the 1976 Winter Olympics
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In 1906, 10 years after the holding of the first Olympic Games in Athens, an extraordinary Olympiad, not stipulated by the rules, took place. Greece's decision to host it initially drew strong criticism from some Olympic committees. However, their opinion gradually changed for the better due to the fact that many countries could not send serious teams to St
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For a long time, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same year with a difference of several months. Starting in 1994, by the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the winter types of the Olympics began to be carried out with a shift of two years relative to the summer
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In 1980, during the Olympics, which took place in Moscow, the governments of 65 countries, most of them European, refused to take part in the summer games. Then this boycott was due to the fact that the Soviet Union, shortly before the Olympic Games, brought its troops into Afghanistan
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The tradition of lighting the Olympic flame from a torch that swept across continents originated in Germany. The Olympic relay was invented by Karl Diem, who was the general secretary of the committee for the Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936
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The Norwegian city of Oslo - the organizer of the VI Olympic Winter Games in 1952 - received the right to host the competition as a result of a vote of the IOC members, and not a meeting, as it was before. The American Lake Placid and the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo also fought for this right
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Badminton is a sports game with a shuttlecock and a racket. The game originated in ancient India, and got its modern name from the town of Badminton in England, where officers of the colonial troops who came from India began to cultivate it
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For the first time, triathlon was included in the Sydney Summer Olympics in 2000. This sport allows you to constantly develop your physical ability in swimming, running and cycling. Great endurance is required from triathletes, because such a competition is a 1
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According to ancient myths, the titan Prometheus, not being afraid of the anger of the gods, stole fire from them and brought it as a gift to people to make their life easier. Grateful people have not forgotten this. During the Olympic Games, a fire was lit in a special bowl, symbolizing the feat of Prometheus
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The symbol of the 1980 Olympics, which took place in the USSR, is still remembered and loved thirty years later. The Olympic Bear, despite his good looks, has a very unattractive history of climbing the podium. The mascot of the twenty-second Olympic Games in 1980 was named Mikhail Potapych Toptygin
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The ancient Greeks attached great importance to physical culture. After all, every healthy adult man was obliged to defend his hometown in case of war. Only a strong, hardy person could make long hikes, then fight in heavy armor, and even in the heat
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The Olympic movement is constantly improving, however, unfortunately, in addition to the positive, there are also negative trends in its development. However, the IOC pays a lot of attention to the problems of the Games and tries to solve them to the best of its ability
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The XXII Winter Olympic Games will be held in Sochi from 7 to 23 February 2014, the decision was made at the 119th session of the IOC on 4 July 2007. There was no clear favorite among the contenders for the 2014 Winter Games, so the victory of the Russian bid was a pleasant surprise for millions of Russians
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In speed skating, you need to go through a given distance in a closed circle of an ice stadium. The winner is the athlete who reaches the finish line faster than the rest of the race participants. Such competitions are called cyclical. Speed skating competitions have been held for a long time
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Olympic medals are awarded for 1, 2, 3 places in competitions at the Games. It is a distinction for personal and team achievements. Previously, medals were hung around the neck of athletes, until 1960 they were made without fastening and handed over to their hands
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The Olympic mascot is one of the symbols of the Olympic Games. It is either an image of an animal characteristic of the country in which the games are held, or an image of some inanimate object. The host country uses the mascot for advertising and commercial purposes, to attract interest in the Olympics and to obtain an additional source of funds
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The 1972 Munich Olympics, unfortunately, did not become famous for the merits of the organizers or the athletes. It was then that the terrorist attack took place, which became one of the most terrible events that ever darkened the Olympic Games
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For the second time in history, the Olympic Games will be held in Russia. For the first time this major sporting event was held in the summer of 1980 in Moscow, and now Sochi will meet the Winter Olympics. The first new slopes, built specifically for this event, were tested by skiers at the competitions held in Krasnaya Polyana in winter 2012
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The next Olympic Games will be held at the end of summer 2012. The previous competition took place two years ago - it was the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Despite the fact that it was already the 21st Winter Olympic Games, several "premieres"
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The venue for the Olympic Games at the turn of the millennium was determined at the 101st session of the IOK in Monaco. This happened seven years before the start of the games, and the contenders were the capitals of Turkey (Istanbul), Germany (Berlin), China (Beijing), as well as English Manchester and Australian Sydney