athletic competition contested by representatives of various city-states of ancient Greece. Records indicate that began in 776 a. C. in Olympia, Greece, and were celebrated until 393 d. C.
The Games were fighting normally every four years or the Olympics, which was a unit of time. During the celebration of the Games was enacted Olympic truce or peace, to allow athletes to travel safely from their countries to Olympia.
The ancient Olympics were rather different from the modern, there were fewer events, and only free men who spoke Greek could compete, plus they were always held at Olympia instead of moving to different places each time.
The last of the ancient Olympic Games were held in 393, more than six centuries after their comienzos.1 Following the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the empire with the Edict of Thessalonica (28 February 380), Emperor Theodosius Hispano I finally prohibited all pagan celebration, including the Games.
are multidisciplinary sports involving athletes from around the world, in ancient Greece were dedicated to the god Zeus. There are two types of Olympics: Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics, which take place at an interval of four years. The organization responsible for the conduct of these is the International Olympic Committee (for short, IOC).
The current Olympic Games were inspired by the eighth century BC by the ancient Greeks organized in the city of Olympia, between the years 776. C. and 393 d. C. In the nineteenth century, the idea of making a similar event to organized in antiquity, which would be realized primarily through the efforts of the French nobleman Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin. The first edition of the so-called Olympics of the modern era were held in Athens, capital of Greece. Since that time, the Summer Olympics have been held every four years in different parts of the planet, the only exceptions being the editions of 1916, 1940 and 1944, due to the outbreak of the First and Second World War.
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