Beijing Olympics 2008

Navtej Kohli having very keen vision to take sports and other events which are made specially for joining communities, countries and continents. Olympics is a also be such kind of sports which made for specially for making peace and joy around the world. Olympics Logo which having five entangled circle showing unity of five continents.
Basically Olympic is multi sports games which are divided into summer and winter Olympic. Before 1992 winter and summer Olympic held in same year but after that they bare scheduled to be in such manner summer in the first year of Olympiad and winter in thired year of Olympiad. Olympiad is nothing but 4 year time interval. Originally first Olympic games (Greek: Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες; [Olympiakoi Agones] ) was held in 776 in Olympia, Greece , which was ended in the year of AD 393 . Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos first shown his interest for restarting Olympics games and Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin is a person who had taken many initiates to start International Olympic Committee in 1894 which organized first Summer Olympics games in 1896 in Athens, Greece which having athletics around the world .

Some controversies exist for deciding the origin of ancient Olympics Games . But many are in the believes that Heracles was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings as an honor to his father Zeus, after completing his 12 labours. He walked 400 m straight and called that distance “stadion" (Greek: στάδιον, Latin: stadium, "stage ) that’s why stadium track is 400 meters in circumference . Also there are on more beliefs that ‘date of the Games' inception based on the count of years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars' opinions diverge between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC’ . After that Olympics game were very popular and had reached to zenith in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race with King Oenomaus of Pisatis, and in whose honour the games were held. Person whom was winner immortalised in poems and statues , Game are scheduled to be held after four year and difference between two celebrations known as Olympiad.
When Roman are in the Power in Greece Games had lost its importance After Emperor Theodosius I proclaimed Christianity the religion of the Empire and banned pagan rites, the Olympic Games were outlawed as a pagan festival in 393 AD. There are restriction on athletics while taking part in Olympics such are only young man can participates , and participants had to nude and winner participant had to wore olive leaves crown .
Even though the bearing of a torch formed an integral aspect of Greek ceremonies, the ancient Olympic Games did not include it, nor was there a symbol formed by interconnecting rings. These Olympic symbols were introduced as part of the modern Olympic Games.
Navtej Kohli brings quick review of Olympics games and places where it was held and in which year .
Olympic Summer Games:
Athens 1896
Paris 1900
St Louis 1904
London 1908
Stockholm 1912
Antwerp 1920
Paris 1924
Amsterdam 1928
Los Angeles 1932
Berlin 1936
London 1948
Helsinki 1952
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
Rome 1960
Tokyo 1964
Mexico 1968
Munich 1972
Montreal 1976
Moscow 1980
Los Angeles 1984
Seoul 1988
Barcelona 1992
Atlanta 1996
Sydney 2000
Athens 2004
Olympic Winter Games:
Chamonix 1924
St. Moritz 1928
Lake Placid 1932
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
St. Moritz 1948
Oslo 1952
Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956
Squaw Valley 1960
Innsbruck 1964
Grenoble 1968
Sapporo 1972
Innsbruck 1976
Lake Placid 1980
Sarajevo 1984
Calgary 1988
Albertville 1992
Lillehammer 1994
Nagano 1998
Salt Lake City 2002
Turin 2006

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