Olympic Games 2025, January
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The jubilee Olympic Games, which have passed 100 years after their resumption, were held in 1996 and took place in the American city of Atlanta. For the first time, it was not the national team of Russia and the union republics who competed at them, but individual national teams of the states that were previously part of the USSR
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The twelfth Winter Olympic Games were held in the Austrian Innsbruck from 4 to 15 February 1976. It is noteworthy that at first they were planned to be held in Denver, but the results of a survey of residents of Colorado showed that they did not want the Olympics to be held in them
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The XXIII Summer Olympics 1984 fell on that period in the modern Olympic movement, when every sports forum was boycotted by some IOC member countries. This happened at the previous games in Moscow, and the 1980 Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles, USA, also remained in memory mainly due to the boycott by 16 countries
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Since ancient times, the Olympic Games have been considered the main sports competition among people. They were not held for a very long time, but in 1896 they were renewed again. In 2018, the 23 Winter Olympic Games will already be held. The 23rd Winter Olympic Games will be held from 9 to 25 February 2018 in South Korea, in the city of Pyeongchang
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Seoul received the right to host the XXIV Summer Olympics at the 84th session of the IOC on September 30, 1981. After boycotts of the previous Olympics, the strongest athletes of the USSR, USA, East Germany and other countries finally got the opportunity to measure their strength again
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1996 became a jubilee year in the modern history of Olympism - exactly one hundred years before that, the tradition of regular meetings of the strongest athletes was revived, and games with the first serial number took place in Greece. It was expected that in order to maintain a historical connection between ancient and modern Olympiads, these summer games will also be held in Athens, but the American city of Atlanta won the vote of the IOC members
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From July 25 to August 9, 1992, the XXV Summer Olympic Games were held in Barcelona. About ten thousand athletes from 169 countries took part in them. These were the first Olympic Games that took place after the collapse of the USSR. In 1992, Spain hosted two international events
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Back in the 30s, the capital of Japan was supposed to be the site of the twelfth Olympiad in 1940. But due to the outbreak of World War II, the Games did not take place. Twenty years later, Tokyo re-nominated itself, but the IOC gave preference to Rome
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The Eleventh Winter Olympic Games of 1972 were held in the Japanese city of Sapporo from February 3-13. They were attended by athletes from 35 countries, a total of 1006 people. 35 sets of awards were played in 10 sports. The second half of the 60s of the last century was marked by a very difficult world political situation
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At the 91st session of the International Olympic Committee in 1984, France nominated two of its cities at once to host the Winter and Summer Olympics. The "winter option" was more fortunate - in a dispute with five more European and one American cities, the small town of Albertville won
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The XXVI Summer Olympic Games were held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from July 19 to August 4, 1996. Athletes representing 197 countries competed in 26 sports. At the same time, 271 sets of medals were played. The choice of Atlanta as the Olympic city surprised many people
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The 20th Summer Olympics of 1972 were held in Munich from 26 August to 10 September. A record number of athletes and national teams arrived in Germany. For the first time, representatives of Albania, Saudi Arabia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Somalia and a number of other countries took part in the Olympic competitions
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The Olympic Village is a complex of buildings in which the participants of the games and the persons accompanying them are located. In addition, they also usually have a number of additional premises, including canteens, shops, a cultural center, hairdressers, post offices, and so on
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The XXIII Summer Olympic Games in 1984 were held in Los Angeles, California, USA, from July 28 to August 12. Los Angeles became the host city for the Summer Olympics for the second time since 1932. Due to the boycott of the American team of the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow, the 1984 Summer Games were boycotted by the USSR and most of the socialist countries (except Romania, Yugoslavia and China)
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The Canadian city of Calgary was selected as the capital of the XV 1988 Winter Olympics. This right did not come easily to him - the city applied three times. Canada's rivals in the last fight were Italy and Sweden. Calgary used time and investments very competently, the largest sports facilities were built - the Olympic Oval and the Canadian Olympic Park
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The 1972 Summer Olympic Games were held in the German city of Munich, the capital of the federal state of Bavaria, in the south of Germany. In the six years that have passed since the choice of this city as the site of the Olympics, the organizers of the games have done a great job
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The traditional vote on the choice of the venue for the XIX Olympic Games took place in the fall of 1963 in Baden-Baden, Germany. It was at the 60th session of the International Olympic Committee, and the voting list contained four items. Only one of them was assigned to a European city, and in the rest, overseas applicants were presented
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The 1956 Olympics, held in the Italian city of Cortina D'Ampezzo, went down in history with the introduction of a lot of know-how. In particular, live television broadcasts were conducted at these games for the first time, and it was here that sponsorship was first attracted for the organization and holding of the Olympic Games
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In 1992, two Olympics were held at once - winter and summer. Skiers, skaters, figure skaters, hockey players and representatives of other winter disciplines competed in the French Albertville from 8 to 23 February. It was decided at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee in 1986 to transfer the 1992 Winter Olympics to France
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The 1976 Summer Olympics became one of the most representative in terms of the number of participants and the number of awards played. In addition, they went down in the history of the Olympic Games as the most expensive ones. Montreal won the right to host the Summer Olympic Games in 1970, bypassing Los Angeles and Moscow, whose applications were considered preferable
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The Olympic Games originated in antiquity in Greece, in Olympia, now a small town. They glorified a healthy and harmonious human body, the unity of the nation. In Russia, the Olympic movement began to take shape at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when people began to realize the importance of sports
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Beijing was elected the capital of the XXIX Summer Olympics in 2001 at the IOC session held in Moscow. His competitors for the right to host the Games were Toronto, Paris, Osaka and Istanbul. The Olympics took place in 2008 and became the largest in history
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In 1988, the capital of the Winter Olympics was the city that had long sought this honor. This is not the first time the games have been held in Canada. Before that, they took place in Montreal, and in 1988 the turn came to the city of Calgary
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The seventeenth Summer Olympics in 1960 were held in Rome from 25 August to 11 September. They were the first summer Olympics for Italy, the first winter games in this country were held four years earlier in the small town of Cortina d'Ampezzo