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2. the Olympic games.

3. pentathlon javelin throw and the disc long jump jogging fighting chariot races

5. the reward for a winner 1.olive crown 2.statue in his lifetime

6. they started in 776 BC stopped 394 BC

7. During the Olympic Games throughout of Greece announced sacred truce. former enemies could compete for the right to be the most powerful, fast, nimble. In the ancient Olympic Games Competed and were spectators Only men, and only freeborn Greeks.

9. Olympic emblem is five interlaced multi-colored rings and represents the unity of the five continents. emblem proposed Pierre de Coubertin in 1913.

11. Olympic logo looks like the five rings connected together in different colors. This logo is also applied on the Olympic flag, which has a white background signifying peace in the world. In 1913, Pierre de Coubertin came up with a logo, he considered that the national colors of all the countries included in the five rings, and not tied to any of the continents as is commonly think of now. If you look at the flag of any country is, you will see that it has at least one color from five colors of the rings. To date suggest that each color is a continent, the most common version: Blue is Europe, Black - Africa, red - America, yellow - Asia, green - Australia. So what did mean five Olympic rings logo, most sources reported on five continents, it is fair to us and to adhere to this view. This symbol indicates that the Olympic Games can participate athletes from any country of the world. The main purpose of the Olympic Games is to maintain peace, the improvement of relations between the countries. These principles laid down as a basis in ancient Greece. The five Olympic rings are present at every Olympic logo on each coin, and in general for all Olympic paraphernalia. Rings can be considered a symbol of world peace.

12. Charter - a kind the constitution of the Olympic movement, a set of basic laws according to which live World of the modern Olympic Sport. Fundamentals of the Charter were designed by Pierre de Coubertin and approved by Congress in 1894.

13. On the first games of the athletes only competed in the race 192,27 m at this distance called "stages." from this word came and called "stadium" Games led "elladoniki" they were both coaches and judges. The winners were called "olimpioniki."

14. In Athens there was no public schools. The schools were private. They were called "gymnasium." They trained in gymnastics exercises, aesthetic and music education.

15. At THE OLYMPIC FESTIVITIES POETS Read THEIR POEMS, SPEAKERS UTTERED Read THEIR POEMS, SPEAKERS UTTERED Speech IN HONOR OF THE GAMES. In OLYMPIA WERE Speech IN HONOR OF THE GAMES. In OLYMPIA WERE Such RENOWNED ARTISTS, As THE HISTORIAN HERODOTUS, THE PHILOSOPHER SOCRATES, As THE HISTORIAN HERODOTUS, THE PHILOSOPHER SOCRATES, Mathematician PYTHAGORAS, HE DEMOSTHENES.

17. Under the legend, the Olympic Games were held for 1,100 years. Later, at the request of the Christians were prohibited, and all the sports stadium and facilities destroyed (IV century).

19. There are several legends telling of how the first Olympic games were held. One of them says that Zeus won in a fair fight bloodthirsty and merciless god Cronus, who was his father. And in honor of this event Zeus commanded to carry out sports games, which (at the place where they were held and were named Olympic).

20. The Olympic Games are held every four years. Participants in the Olympic Games could only be free men, indigenous Greeks. Women under penalty of death was forbidden even to be in the stadium. For them, their games were dedicated to the goddess Hera. During the Olympic Games were stopped throughout Greece all strife and war. No one was allowed to enter the Olympic Stadium with a gun.