Olympics

Olympics are an international multi sport event which is divided into summer and winter sporting events. But the summer and winter games are held in every four years. The program of Olympic sports are generally consists of 53 disciplines, 35 different sports and more than 400 events.

Winter Olympic Games are basically included only 7 sports with 15 disciplines as well as the summer Olympic sports are including 28 sports with 38 disciplines. The original Olympic programmed in 1896 includes the nine sports such as weightlifting, swimming, tennis, shooting, wrestling, fencing, cycling, gymnastics and athletics. The flag of Olympic Games has divided into five different interlocking rings on a white ground that is black, blue, green, yellow and red. These five colors of the interlocking rings are representing the five parts of the world that were joined together in the Olympic movement. The five parts of the world are Asia, Australia, Africa, America and Europe.

The flag of Olympic game was first used in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. The symbols of the Olympic Games are the icons, flags and symbols which are used by the international Olympic committee to permute the Olympic movement. Some such as the flame, fanfare and theme are the prevalent during the Olympic competition. But the others such as a flag can be seen through out the year. Numbers of organizations are involved in the Olympic Games. Three groups of organizations are operating on a specialized area. All of these three groups are mentioned below:

First one is International Federations which is governing the bodies of a sport. Second one is National Olympic committees, are regulate the Olympic movement within each country and the third one is organizing committees for the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa