Olympic Games 2024, May

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

Every time after the Olympic Games, analysts around the world calculate not only how many medals a particular team won and how many fans visited sports complexes, but also how much budget was spent on organizing such large-scale competitions

The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924, when 4 sports were included and 14 sets of awards were played. By the end of the last century, the games of the XVIII Winter Olympics were already held in 7 sports, and the number of medal sets played increased to 68

The right to host the Summer Olympic Games in 1976 was given to the Canadian Montreal, which rivaled its strong rivals - Moscow and Los Angeles with its victory. This small island city, surrounded by the waters of the St. Lawrence, received hundreds of thousands of tourists in two weeks of the Olympiad

For the right to host the Olympic Games between the countries that have submitted applications, there is always a stubborn struggle. The 1980 Winter Olympics were no exception. The venue was the quiet American town of Lake Placid, which already hosted the 1932 Winter Games

The Olympic Games are very popular and eagerly awaited in many countries around the world. However, over their centuries-old history, they have experienced ups and downs, they were banned and allowed again, boycotted and even turned into an event of a regional rather than a global scale

40 years have passed since the tragedy. The Olympics in Munich was supposed to become a symbol of the renewed Germany and other countries that were "guilty" in the Second World War. This did not happen: 11 Israeli athletes were terrorized by Palestinian extremists, and the organizers of the Games were unable to prevent or suppress the conflict

The Paralympic Games is an international sports competition for people with disabilities, that is, disabled people. They are held after the main Olympic Games, at the same venues where the Olympic athletes competed. This procedure was unofficially introduced since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and in 2001 it was enshrined in an agreement between the IOC and the IPC

The XXII Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow from July 19 to August 3, 1980. During this time, 36 world and 74 Olympic records were set, but the Moscow Olympics were remembered not only for sports achievements. The 1980 Olympics were unique not only for the USSR, but for the whole world - for the first time the Olympic Games were held in a socialist country

Only a year and a half is left before the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. However, the prospects of our national team still look rather vague and do not inspire optimism. Especially against the background of a failed performance at the previous Olympics in Vancouver, where our athletes managed to win only 3 gold medals

The Moscow XXII Olympiad in 1980 is one of the brightest in Russian history. The country has been preparing for it for six years. And despite the boycott announced by the United States and some other countries, these games have become an important milestone in the history of the international Olympic movement

The 1972 Munich Summer Olympics has become one of the most famous. The city has been preparing for it for many years; many new sports facilities have been built. A record number of athletes and participating countries took part in the competition

Historians have established that the first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. e. in Ancient Greece. Their ancestors, according to myths, are gods, heroes and kings. Then the civilization of Greece shone with its poets, philosophers, mathematicians, architects, sculptors and athletes

The Olympic Games, once the most important event in ancient Greece and then banned as pagan games, revived at the end of the 19th century. The initiator of their revival was the French public figure Baron Pierre de Coubertin. A staunch fan of a healthy lifestyle, de Coubertin campaigned in every possible way in favor of sports

The last third of the last century, although it did without world wars, was a very turbulent time in the history of the development of our civilization. This was reflected in the history of the Olympic Games, which were remembered for the terrorist attack in 1972 and the boycotts of various groups of states of the four subsequent summer Olympics