Summer Olympic Games Summary

Summer Olympic Games History

The Summer Olympic Games occur every four years in a different city chosen by the International Olympic Committee. This event took place, for the first time in 1904 in Greece. This beautiful Games has expanded from a 42 event competition with fewer than 250 male athletes to a 300 event competition with more than 10 000 athletes. In the first editions of the Games women weren't allowed to participate but now women are able to perticipate in any of the events. The last Summer Olympics were in Beijing, China in 2008. The next Olympics will be held in London, England in 2012 for the third time in history of the Games. London has held the Olympics more than any other city in the world. Rio de Janiero, Brasil will be the first South American city to hold the Olympics. Some of the sports played in the Summer Olympics are: soccer, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, archery,badminton, boxing, cycling, diving, fencing, shooting, swimming, rowing, tennis, etc. Golf and rugby are sports that are about to be added to the list of sports that are played in the Summer Olympics.


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2008 Summer Olympics

The Beijing Summer Olympics were probably the most exiting Olympics because many records were broken by fantastic athletes who are the best at their disipline. There were 43 new world records and 132 new Olympic records. A total of 11 028 athletes participated in this memorable games. Beijing 2008 was the third time that the Olympics were held in Asia after Tokyo, 1964 and Seoul, 1988. A total of 37 venues were used in the 2008 Olympics and 12 facilities were built for the useof the Games. In this Games 87 countries won at least one medal. Chinese athletes won the most gold medals in these games with 51, and 100 combined. Michael Phelps broke the record for most medals won in one Olympic Games with 8 at his disipline, swimming. While Usain Bolt is now the fastest man on earth by setting records at the 100 meters and at the 200 meters. The total cost for these Games was about 16 billion dolars.

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Facts About Summer Olympic Games

Before, Olympic Games were a religious celebration they were in honor to the god Zeus. In 1894 French professor proposed to make the games a little competitive, and name them the Summer Olympic Games. The Olympic Summer Games are every four years on a different place. the competitors, compete in badminton, basketball, beach volley, boxing, cycling diving, fencing, hockey, gymnastic, handball, biking, rowing sailing, swimming(all kind of swimming), tennis running( all kind of running),etc. The Olympic logo has five rings, witch mean the five main continents on the world Africa, America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. That rings are Blue, Black, Green, Red, and yellow. Every flag on the world has to have one of those colors on it.

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