Prepared by Markaryan B. Form 10 School No 1 Teacher Kurilova Yuliya Pyatigorsk

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival that began in ancient Greece. They were renewed in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year. For two weeks and a half any international conflicts must be stopped and replaced with friendly competitions.

The earliest record of this games goes back to 776 BC. The earliest record of this games goes back to 776 BC. The ancient Games were held in honour of Zeus.

Only one athletic event was held in the ancient Olympics – a footrace. Only men were allowed to compete or watch the games.

The 18th Olympics already included wrestling and pentathlon, and later Games – chariot races and other sports.

Pierre de Coubertin, a young French nobleman, had an idea to bring the Olympic Games back to life. He managed to organize the first modern Olympic Games in Pierre de Coubertin, a young French nobleman, had an idea to bring the Olympic Games back to life. He managed to organize the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.

The Athens Games in 1896 were a success.

Beginning in 1926 Winter Olympics were included. The Olympics are governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), situated in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger". The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in De Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other things, was an athletics enthusiast. A more informal but well known motto, also introduced by De Coubertin, is "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!" De Coubertin got this motto from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 London Games.

The five Olympic rings represent the five parts of the world involved in the Olympics and were designed in 1912, adopted in June 1914 and debuted at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

The Olympic flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since.

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