Eps 1320: The Olympics games explained to kids
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While most of the Summer and Winter Games are held in the United States, London, United Kingdom, is the only city to host all three Olympics this summer. It will host the Summer Olympics in 2020 and the Winter Olympics in 2022. The 2021 Olympics will see baseball and softball return for the first time since 2008, while karate, rock climbing, skateboarding and surfing will make their debuts.
The 2012 Games were held in London and the British city hosted the modern Olympics three times, more than any other city. Paris is the second city to host the Games three times , and Los Angeles will be the third to do so in 2028. Host cities such as Los Angeles, Paris, Athens, and London have hosted the Olympics more than once, and some have hosted them twice.
While the Olympics count in Roman numerals, the year of the Summer Olympics has not changed since the Games were omitted in 1916 due to the First World War. An agreement was signed in 2001 to ensure that the two events would take place in the same host city, and this agreement will remain in force until 2020. The Summer Olympics are held every four years, but the Paralympics and the Summer Olympics do not collide because they are held two years apart. The Paralympic Games take place in the same year as the Olympic Games and take place a month before the Summer Games.
Olympic torch will be lit during the Games in Olympia, Greece, and then brought to the host city where it will be carried by the runners in a relay.
The colour of the Olympic rings is chosen by each nation, and an Olympic ring is the national flag of each nation. The five interlocking ring are an emblem designed by Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 to represent the five continents of the world in the Olympic Games . They are solid gold, although silver has been coated with a thin layer of gold since 1912.
The flag, designed by Pierre de Coubertin, the father of modern Olympic Games, was first flown at the 7th Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Baron de Coubertin designed the flag for the 1913 and 1914 Olympic Games, and it was used in the same city for the 1920 Olympic Games. This is known as the "Antwerp Ceremony" -- a tradition started by the mayor of Antwerp when the city hosted the Games and gave the special Olympic flag over to President of the IOC.
Tell children that athletes at the Olympics receive medals when they win games displayed on posters such as running, swimming, jumping and many others. Explain to the children how the Olympic torchbearers run to light the Olympic cauldron at the beginning of the Olympic opening ceremony. Learn more about the prizes given to the winners of the ancient Olympic Games, the countries that were most successful in the modern Olympics and what the Olympic rings mean .
The ancient Olympic Games were held from 776 BC to 394 AD in Greece as a tribute to the Greek gods living on Olympus. Record records show that the ancient Greek Olympic Games began in Olympia in 776 c.h. In honor of the Greek god Zeus and ceased only in 394 AD. The Olympic Summer Games were held for the first time in modern times in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
This included a mix of athletics and other sports such as cricket, football and football. The Games recovered with the Interludes, so-called because it was the second Games during the Olympics, which lasted four years, and they were held in Athens. The Olympic Games, held in Paris during the 1900 World Exposition, were held in Paris, but not in a stadium, and it was the first time women participated in the Games, as was the St. Louis World Exposition in 1904, when the city had 650 athletes, 580 of whom came from the United States.
At the first 1896 Olympic Games, the athletes from Greece won the most medals, while the USA won the second most gold medals . The 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, GA, were the biggest, but they were overshadowed by a bomb attack that killed two people. Six nations boycotted and focused on return of athletics at the Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea in 1992 . The 1992 Winter and Summer Games in Albertville, France and Barcelona, Spain were both the first Olympic Games without the sports machine of the Eastern Bloc, the last with a unity team from the former USSR, and marked the return of Olympic competition to South Africa.
In 2012, the United States gained more gold , silver , bronze and medals than any other nation at the Summer Olympics. Badminton, table tennis and handball are the only Olympic sports in which the United States never won a medal. Twelve athletes have won Olympic medals representing two different countries.
The modern Olympics are the leading international sporting event with summer and winter sports competitions, in which thousands of athletes from all over the world take part in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games date back to 776 BC, although many believe they were held much earlier.
Women are not taking part in the games and they are not allowed to watch. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have been staggered into a series of Olympic Games , alternating every two years.
Every four years, countries wishing to host the Olympic Games must apply to the International Olympic Committee. Countries large enough to host the Games can think about hosting the Games and accommodating athletes, tourists and foreign media.