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JUAN DAVID DE LA PEA SEBASTIN PACHN ARAQUE English TOPIC: The history of the Olympic Games GRADE: 6 TEACHER: Martha Bogot 27/01/2013

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The history of the Olympic Games

The Olympic competition is known since antiquity, the first reports date back to 776 BC, in the Olympic city of Greece. The modern Olympic Games began in Athens, 1896, at the suggestion and with the coordination of Baron de Coubertin. Since then are held every four years, with few exceptions (I and World War II). The modern Olympics have created a global movement based on sport and healthy competition, framed in countless anecdotes that make the world Olympic history interesting and fun to be read.

2. The origin
It is known that about three thousand years ago, towards 776 BC in the city of Olympia, ancient Greece, athletes gathered from different regions to compete in different sports at the time. From athletes expected the best performance for the pride of his hometown. In return they were proclaimed as heroes by placing a wreath made of olive branches, cut with a special knife for a 12 years, a condition that should have their parents live. The winners on arrival went through a hole made in the wall of the city to be closed after passage to prevent the escape of the city win the champions trophy offering their god Zeus. From that moment the athlete's support was provided by the municipality for the rest of his days. The sport was held naked and barefoot. It excluded women and their participation was forbidden as spectators. Any violation of the rule was paid with death. However, the proud mother of your child's participation and dressed in a robe, entered clandestinely to observe their participation. When discovered he was taken to court where he was forgiven for being the mother of an Olympic champion. In season games remained a sacred truce nationwide event called EKECHEIRI occurring him the connotations of peace and harmony that

could not be violated under any circumstances. As graphic evidence about the games of ancient Etruscan some crafts are reflected where the athlete competing in various sports. Nearly 20 centuries after Baron de Coubertin, from a French aristocratic family, on a trip to Greece Olympic Stadium, had the bright idea of restarting the games that were held in the ancient city of Olympia. The Baron, a man who despite pressure from his family changed his military career in teaching, with his law studies and ideology always framed within social equality, understood that sport at that time was only privileged classes Britain's wealthy. Then felt the need massify within the entire population, recognizing its benefits in developing maturity, nobility, work capacity and physical effort and generating healthy competition. Allied to this idea were the technological advances of the second half of the nineteenth century, with the invention of the steamship and the telegraph, fortunate situation that shortened the distances between different continents. By the year 1894, Baron de Coubertin Olympic movement gave rise to the world in calling to 14 countries creating the first International Olympic Committee (IOC), based at the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris. Within this context academic claimed the first Olympic Games of the modern era to the city of Athens in historical recognition to games of old. At the same congress was elected the first president of the IOC, a position assumed by Greek Demetrios Bikelas, while the Baron of sport as it was called at Coubertin, held the position of secretary general. Despite the political and financial difficulties faced by the organization and different economic support, especially that of a wealthy Greek merchant named George Averof, a resident of Alexandria, who contributed one million drachmas for the construction of the Olympic stadium, was achieved the opening of the games and King George l in 1896 in the monumental Olympic Stadium before 70,000 spectators and Greece. They participated 311 athletes from 11 countries and despite the setbacks of most Greek athletes, the humble baker Spiridon Louis won the victory in the 42-kilometer marathon. The test, one of the most prestigious Olympic competitions, was designed remembering the heroic soldier in ancient Athenian and after the battle ran the same distance between the valley of Marathon and Athens to announce the big news of the victory of the Athenians over the Persians. Following his tour, he fell dead from fatigue.

3. When do the women can start to play at the games

In Sydney, in 2000, 38 percent of Olympic athletes were women and only nine of the 199 Olympic delegations had no women, compared to 26 Atlanta? 96. Fifty-three of those teams in Sydney had a female majority, including a superpower like China (65 percent). Women were involved in 131 of the 300 events and, after making his debut in weightlifting in 2000, may now struggle to win medals in Athens, when it is expected that 44 percent of the athletes are women. In the view of De Coubertin, women could not compete physically with men. Besides the sport could do something "Citrus, Altius, Fortius" (faster, higher, stronger), the main motto of the games in ancient Grecia.Las women began competing in the Games in 1900 in Paris skills of tennis, golf and croquet. The British tennis player Charlotte Cooper, Wimbledon champion, was the first woman to win a gold medal. Women were able to enter the swimming competitions in 1912 and fencing in 1924. However, the leaders of athletics and the IOC refused to compete in athletic disciplines. In response, the French Alice Milliat organized the first "female Olympics" in 1922, a one day event held in Paris.

Four years after the event, from ten countries participated, was held in Gothenburg, Sweden. These calls were so successful that the IAAF had to take note of the situation. In return for abandoning the identification Milliat Olympic offered him ten leadership competencies in the following games. The IOC included only five events in the 1928 Games. The female British team refused to participate for this situation, in what was the only female in the history boycott of the Games. Athletics in the eye of the storm

The competition of the women's 800m at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam a storm. The race was won by Germany's Linde Radke and the press reported that many women fell to the ground exhausted by the effort. In 1929, the IOC voted to exclude women's athletic events of the 1932 Games. The IAAF, under pressure from the U.S., revoked the suspension, but the women did not come to compete in the 800 meters until 1960. The Los Angeles Games in 1932 gave the first heroine Olympic double gold medalist in athletics Mildred Didrikson. The first games after the Second World War, London? 48, was the stage on which shone arguably the best athlete in Olympic history, the Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold medals and changed IOC and ideas athletics federation on athletes. In Athens, women compete equally with men in sailing and horse riding and will participate in all sports except boxing and baseball. There will be a separate women's softball competition. The tireless struggle From the Greeks are the efforts of women to excel in sports. The Spartan runner Cyniska was, according to historians of his time, the only woman in all of Greece to win in a competition. The first women's participation in the Olympic Games took place in the second edition in 1900. Women began competing in tests of Golf and Tennis in 1900 in Paris, in 1904 in San Luis was added Archery. Women also participated in regattas and figure skating at the Games in 1908.

4. Most important facts of the Olympic games

The Olympic Games were inaugurated in the spring of 1896, largely through the efforts of the athlete and French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, evolving into the Summer Olympics, the focus of this article. The Winter Olympics began in 1924 and have been held since then in the same years as the Summer Games, but since 1994, the Winter Games are alternated with summer in even years. Plans for the celebration of the modern games began in 1894 with the founding of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) received aid sports organizations and individuals from various countries, initially primarily from European countries. The Committee drafted the principles of competition and chose Athens (Greece) to host the first Olympic Games of the modern era. Principle athletes can participate in all countries. The IOC is headquartered in the Swiss city of Lausanne, and currently 186 NOCs recognized. The headquarters of the games is chosen by the IOC, usually with six years in advance. Athens 1896 First Olympic Games of the modern era

berlin 1936 jesse owens hitler humbled

mexico 1968 Bob Beamon jumping 8.90mts

Munich 1972 terrorist attack with the death of athletes israel

montreal nadia comanneci and his perfect 10pts

Los Angeles 1984 the appearance of Carl Lewis, perhaps the best athlete in history

Seoul 1988 Ben Johnson won the 100 meters doped (was stripped of the medal)

Beijing 2008 these games have 2 names Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps

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