Olympic Games are the most famous and largest multi sports event of the world where more than two hundred nations take part. In Olympics thousands of players participate in a variety of different sports. Olympic Games consists of two sports summer and winter sports and also known as seasonal sports. Summer sports are held in summer season and Winter sports are held in winter season. Both the sports are held after four years in their respective season with the gape of two years after one another.
Summer sports consist of archery, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian events (horseback riding), fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, rowing, shooting, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, weight lifting, wrestling, and yachting. Winter Sports consist of skating, skiing, bobsledding, luge, tobogganing, ice hockey, and the biathlon (skiing-shooting).
Olympic Games began long back in 776 BC and were originally held in Olympia in Greece. Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I ordered a prohibition of the Ancient Summer Games in 393 AD as a objection against paganism. Olympic Games were re-energized by Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, a French nobleman in 1896 and from then the era of the Modern Olympic Games started. The growth and governance of the modern games are vested in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), founded in Paris in 1894.
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