Olympic Games
Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee organized by the world's comprehensive games. Named after the ancient Greek Olympia. Held every four years. Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC to 393 AD, *** through two hundred and ninety-three sessions, after the Roman Emperor Theodosius to the charge of pagan activities and abolished. 1894 in Paris, held in the International Sports Conference, according to the initiative of the Ku Baidan set up the International Olympic Committee and decided to restore the Olympic Games. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896, and since then have been held around the world in turn, each session lasting sixteen days. There are more than thirty major events in the games***, and in 1924, the Olympic Games began to organize winter events. It is customary to refer to the non-winter Olympic Games as the "Summer Olympics" or the "Olympic Games".
Olympic Games
Olympic Games is referred to as the Olympic Games, which includes the Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, Paralympics, Youth Olympics and Special Olympics. It is an international games organized by the International Olympic Committee, which includes a variety of sports, and is held every four years. The Olympic Games originated in Ancient Greece (776 B.C.), and were named after Olympia, where they were held, and were founded by Baron Coubertin of France at the end of the 19th century as the modern Olympic Games in the true sense of the word. Since 1896, the Olympic Games have been held every four years (with three interruptions during the two world wars, in 1916, 1940 and 1944) for a period of no more than 16 days. Since the Winter Olympic Games were established in 1924, the Olympic Games are also known as the Summer Olympic Games. The Olympic Games have now become a symbol of peace and friendship. The spirit of the Olympics has been passed down from generation to generation and will never end.
Olympic symbols
Overview
The Olympic Movement has a series of unique and distinctive symbolic symbols, such as the Olympic logo, motto, Olympic flag, anthem, emblem, medals, mascots and so on. These symbols have rich cultural meanings, which graphically reflect the value orientation and cultural connotation of the Olympic ideal.
The Olympic Charter stipulates that the property rights of the Olympic Symbol, the Olympic Flag, the Olympic Motto and the Olympic Anthem belong exclusively to the IOC. The IOC may take all appropriate measures to obtain legal protection for the Olympic symbol, flag, motto and anthem at the national and international levels.
The Five Rings of the Olympic Games
The most widely circulated symbols of the Olympic Games today are the Five Rings, which, with the development of the Olympic Movement, have become the image of the Olympic spirit and culture, and wherever the Five Rings "turn", the Olympic Movement takes root and blossoms.
There is an interesting story about the origin of the five rings. In 1936, the 11th Berlin Olympic Games held the first torch relay activity, the torch relay route from Olympia, from northern Greece out of the country, along the Danube River through Austria, and finally into Germany. In order to set the stage for this symbolic event, Karl Diem, chairman of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games, and his colleagues followed the ancient Olympic Games almost exactly to the ancient Greek sites along the way.
The torch arrived at the ancient stadium on Mount Delphi Parnassus for a special ceremony, at which point Diem had the brilliant idea of designing and carving the five rings of the modern Olympic movement on all four sides of a rectangular stone about 3 feet high and placing it at one end of the starting line of the ancient stadium. After the ceremony, the torch continued its journey north while the stone, which was used as a prop, was left at the ancient stadium.
Because few people knew the true identity of the stone with the five rings on it (later called the "Stone of Dim"), it was for a long time treated as a "3,000-year-old relic of the ancient Olympic Games. The falsehood was not pointed out by Greek officials in Delphi until the 1960s, and in May 1972 the fake artifact was sent to another part of Delphi - the entrance to an ancient Roman square.
In fact, the five-ringed symbol of the modern Olympic movement is attributed to Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics. The idea that the Olympic movement should have its own symbol had been on his mind for a long time, and in 1913 he finally conceived of the five rings and the Olympic flag with them on a white background, with the intention of launching it on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
June 15~23, 1914, the IOC held a congress at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, while celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the IOC. At the commemorative congress, Coubertin excitedly took out his own design of the five-ringed logo and a flag with the five rings on it to show them to everyone, and suggested that they should be used as the symbols of the Olympic Movement. After listening to the illustration by Coubertin, the conference determined that the five Olympic rings and the Olympic flag should be used as the Olympic symbols.
The five Olympic rings symbol consists of five Olympic rings snapped together from left to right, either in a single color or in five colors: blue, yellow, black, green and red. The initial explanation is that the five colors represent the colors of the national flags of the countries, and later the five different colors of the rings are explained as the symbols of the five continents. The official website of the Olympics suggests that the statement "each ring represents a corresponding continent" is incorrect. (See the entry for "Olympic rings."
The flag is 3 meters long and 2 meters wide, with a white background to symbolize purity. The five rings, blue, yellow, black, green and red, are interlocked. the Olympic flag was first flown at the Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914, and in 1920 it flew for the first time at the Antwerp Summer Olympic Stadium. After this Olympic Games, the Belgian Olympic Committee presented the IOC with an identical flag to be flown during the Olympic Games, which later became customized, and this flag was handed over to the previous host city at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, and was kept by the host city, and only a substitute was flown at the main stadium during the games. in 1952, the city of Oslo presented the IOC with the flag of the Winter Olympic Games, which was handed over, kept, and used in the same way as at the Summer Olympic Games.
In June 1979, the IOC officially announced the meaning of the flag and the five rings: according to the Olympic Charter, the meaning of the Olympic flag and the five rings is: to symbolize the unity of the five continents and the athletes from all over the world meet at the Olympic Games in a spirit of fairness, frank play and friendship. It is like a temple built with colorful rocks.
Olympic anthem
People from all over the world came to worship, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) finally decided to use the "Olympic Hymn" as the Olympic anthem at its 55th Plenary Session held in Tokyo in 1958. The sheet music is stored at the IOC headquarters. Since then, this melodious ancient Greek music can be heard in the opening and closing ceremonies of every Olympic Games. The lyrics of the song are as follows:
Ancient god of immortality,
Father of beauty, greatness and integrity.
Pray to come down to earth to manifest yourself,
Let the heroes who are in the limelight be in the firmament of this earth,
as witnesses of your glory.
Lighten up the running, the jousting and the throwing events,
the sublime contests of all-out effort.
Award to the winners a crown of olive branches,
shaping a body of steel.
The valleys, the mountains, and the oceans shine with thee
Ah! Eternally immortal god of antiquity.
Olympic Games mascots
In Olympic history, mascots first appeared at the 1972 Munich Games. Since then, mascots have become a major component of the image of the Olympic Games. The mascot, with its dynamic and unique image loved by people, embodies the Olympic spirit, conveys the concept of holding the Olympic Games, conveys the history, culture and humanistic spirit of the host city, creates the festive atmosphere of the Olympic Games, and is an important carrier for the promotion of the Olympic spirit in the general public, especially among children and young people, which is incomparable with other images in all the Olympic Games identification programs.
In the art form of the mascot, before the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, the Olympic Games mascot most of the organizing country characteristics of the animal image for the creation of the prototype, generally a species. 1992, the Olympic Games mascot appeared in the characters, or completely virtual form, the number of changes in the mascot. 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics mascot has four species, the 2000 Sydney Olympics mascots had 3 kinds, and the Athens Olympics were 2 kinds. Regardless of the form, its basic creative core is conducive to the expression of the theme of the current Olympic Games, and is conducive to the expression of the host city's unique regional characteristics, history, culture and humanities, while being conducive to market development and protection.
The mascot of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Germany, Waldi (Waldi)
Although the first Olympic mascot appeared in 1968 at the 10th Winter Olympics in Ghenab, France, the people are still accustomed to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games colorful dog, "Waldi," known as the first Olympic Games mascot in history. the first Olympic mascot in history.
Amik, the mascot of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada
Amik is the Canadian Indian word for beaver.
Misha, mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Misha, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, was designed by Viktor Chezkov, a famous Soviet illustrator of children's books.
Sam, mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
Designed by the Disney Company. With the U.S. Stars and Stripes as the background and a cartoonish eagle dressed in the costume of the American legend "Uncle Sam", the mascot was commercially utilized from this time onwards.
Hodori, the mascot of the 1988 Seoul Olympics in South Korea
Hodori, the mascot of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, was designed as a friendly animal, representing the Korean tradition of hospitality. The name of the mascot was solicited from the public, and Hodori was chosen from 2,295 submissions. Ho" is the Korean word for tiger, and "Dori" is the Korean name for a little boy.
Cobi, the mascot for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain
was designed by Spanish cartoonist Xavier Maresque. It was not universally accepted at first, but as the Olympics progressed Cobi became popular and was loved by Spaniards and the world. This is the first time that the Olympic Games used the abstract cartoon shape, it looks like smiling from one direction, another angle looks like sniffing something with the nose, popular with children.Cobi was once the largest sales in the history of the Olympic Games, the most successful mascot. To this day, children's television series featuring him are broadcast on Spanish television.
Izzy, the mascot of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA
Izzy was the first computer-designed mascot in Olympic history. Originally named "What is it?" (What is it?), the organizing committee issued a public call for names and received thousands of responses from children around the world, finally adopting the suggestions of 32 children in Atlanta.
Syd, Olly Millie (Syd, Olly Millie), the mascots for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia
Syd, Olly, and Millie are three native Australian animals representing land, air, and water, respectively. Olly represents the greatness of the Olympics and comes from the Olympics; Syd shows the spirit and energy of Australia and its people and comes from Sydney; Millie represents the Millennium .
The mascots for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, Athena and Phevos
are based on the ancient Greek clay sculpture dolls, the Daidara. They have big feet, long necks and small heads, and one wears orange and the other blue, which is the same as the emblem of the Athens Olympic and Paralympic Games and the main colors of the Games. According to Greek mythology, Athena is the goddess of wisdom and Fervos is the god of light and music. They represent Greece and the Olympic spirit of cooperation, fair play, friendship and equality, while embodying the four core values of the Athens Games: heritage, participation, celebration and humanity.
The mascot of the 29th Olympic Games in 2008 is Fuwa, whose colors and inspirations are derived from the five Olympic rings, from China's vast mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, and from the images of favorite animals. Fuwa conveys to children around the world the spirit of friendship, peace, positive and enterprising, and the good wishes of man and nature to live in harmony.
The Fuwa are five cute and close friends, whose shapes incorporate the images of fish, giant pandas, Tibetan antelope, swallows and the Olympic flame.
Each doll has a catchy name: "Bei Bei," "Jing Jing," "Huan Huan," "Ying Ying," and "Ni Ni". "Beibei," "Jingjing," "Huanhuan," "Yingying," and "Nini," and in China, hyphenated names are a traditional way of expressing affection for a child. When the names of the five dolls are linked together, you can read Beijing's warm invitation to the world, "Beijing welcomes you".
The Fuwa represent dreams and the aspirations of the Chinese people. Their prototypes and headdresses imply their connection to the sea, forest, fire, earth and sky, and their image design applies traditional Chinese artistic expressions to show China's splendid culture.
Olympic Games Emblem
The emblem of the first Olympic Games in Athens, Greece in 1896
Whether it was a century ago in 1896 or the coming 2008, Athens, Greece, chose to use the olive branch, a symbol of peace and friendship, to express their supreme understanding of and respect for the Olympic Movement. In 1896, Athens pioneered the first modern Olympic Games. Originally, the first Olympic Games had neither an emblem nor a poster, and the painting seen was the cover of the Athens Olympic Committee's report to the IOC, which was later used to represent the Games. The majestic Acropolis, the goddess Athena holding an olive branch, the y embedded horseshoe print. The bronze-colored relief of the Olympic emblem displayed before the world exudes a strong ancient Greek atmosphere. In the upper left, the words 776-1896 B.C.
Indicates that the modern Olympic Games and the ancient Olympic Games have the same relationship.
The emblem of the second Olympic Games of 1900 in Paris, France
Paris has hosted two Olympic Games, and while Paris in 1900 could only serve as a supporting role to the World's Fair, the Parisians in 1924 used their enthusiasm to host the best Olympic Games in history at the time. Here's a look at the city through the emblems of these two Olympics. The main body of the 1900 Paris Olympic Games emblem is a woman dressed as a traditional French knight, holding in her right hand the three traditional French weapons - the foil, the saber and the sword - in a simple design, but full of French flavor, and it was at this Olympics that women began to come into the Olympic family, competing in the showpiece events.
The emblem of the Third Olympic Games in St. Louis in 1904
The United States hosted two Olympic Games at the beginning of the twentieth century and at the end of the twentieth century, and the design styles of the two Olympic Games emblems differed greatly: the earlier ones were more realistic and the more recent ones were more abstract. In 1904, the third Olympic Games in the United States, held in St. Louis, the logo through the use of "fisheye" stunts to show the host city's appearance. Because of the early years of the Games, the logo appeared in the form of a World's Fair poster.
The logo of the fourth Olympic Games in London, England, in 1908
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 1906 temporarily relocated the 1908 Olympic Games, originally scheduled to be held in Rome, to London, where the Games were held, but the London Games provided the first opening ceremony in the history of the modern Olympics.1948, the world was still in the post-World War II recovery period, and the need to hold a sports event was debated in the period. The 1908 London Olympics emblem reflects the style of the era, with the high jumpers' costumes, the jumping position and the cinder track behind them and the swimming pool in the middle of the stadium all bearing the hallmarks of the time.
Sweden Stockholm in 1912, the fifth Olympic Games emblem
Located in northern Europe, Sweden and Finland are the modern sports early countries. Historically, they each hosted a summer Olympic Games, in the emblem fully embodies the Nordic people's fitness and vitality. Stockholm, Sweden in 1912 the Olympic Games emblem pattern condensed the athletes of various countries to the Olympic movement of the feelings of yearning: it describes a team of athletic Olympic athletes, waving their respective national flags to run to the Olympic field of scenarios. We can smell the ancient Olympic flavor in it.
1920 Antwerp, Belgium, the seventh Olympic Games emblem
In 1920, the Olympic Games chose Antwerp, a historic port city in Belgium and Europe's most prosperous city of commerce and the arts, and in 1928, Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands, attracted the world's sports enthusiasts with its rich human history. The two Olympic Games in the design style of the logo, there are similarities and differences. Belgium Antwerp Olympic Games emblem on the upper right is the host city's coat of arms, the middle of the hand holding a discus, robust half-naked man's reminiscent of the ancient Olympic Games. In the background is Antwerp's famous city tower. In the emblem, the flags of the participating countries fly in a single scroll, symbolizing the unity of the five continents.
The emblem of the VIII Olympic Games of 1924 in Paris, France (Going Your Own Way)
Paris has hosted two Olympic Games, and while Paris in 1900 could only serve as a supporting role to the World's Fair, the Parisians in 1924 used their enthusiasm to organize the best Olympic Games in the history of the time. Here's a look at the city through the emblems of these two Olympics. The main body of the 1924 Paris Olympic Games emblem is the coat of arms of the city of Paris, with an old sailing ship sailing on the sea in the center, accompanied by the words "VIII Olympiad Paris 1924" and "French Olympic Committee". Strictly speaking, this is the first emblem in the history of the modern Olympic Games, and from then on the Olympic Games emblem and posters are officially separated.
The emblem of the Ninth Olympic Games in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1928
In 1920, the Olympic Games chose Antwerp, a historic port city in Belgium and one of Europe's most thriving cities for commerce and the arts, and in 1928, Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands, attracted sports enthusiasts from all over the world because of its rich human history. The two Olympic Games share a similarity in the design style of the logo. Compared to Antwerp, the Amsterdam Olympic Games logo eight years later incorporates more modern elements. On a blue background, a long-distance runner holds up a white laurel branch symbolizing victory. At the bottom of the emblem are the red, white and blue waves of the Dutch flag. The emblem creatively combines the elements of the Netherlands, sport, victory and the Olympics.
The emblem of the 10th Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA in 1932 (the first emblem to use the Olympic symbol)
The two Olympic Games in Los Angeles have extraordinary significance for the Chinese. 1932, Liu Changchun represented China for the first time to participate in the Olympic Games track and field competitions, and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was the first time that a group of Chinese people participated in the Summer Olympic Games after the new China's return to the Olympic family. The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was the first time that China participated in the Summer Olympics after returning to the Olympic family. The main body of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games emblem is the flag of the host United States, the Olympic five rings symbol in the center of the emblem, representing the victory of the laurel branch through the middle of the Olympic spirit of faster, higher, stronger appeared for the first time in the Olympic Games emblem, fully demonstrated the pursuit of the spirit of the United States by the Americans.
The Twelfth Olympic Games and the Thirteenth Olympic Games
The IOC selected Tokyo as the venue for the Twelfth Olympic Games, which was originally scheduled to be held from Sept. 21 to Oct. 6, 1940.
The Japanese Olympic Committee was forced to announce that the Olympic Games could not be held in Japan in 1940 after the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 under pressure from the military. In this situation, the IOC decided to change the venue of the Summer Olympics to Helsinki, and the dates were set for July 20 to August 4, 1940, which was the first time the Olympic Games were held in Japan. Due to the outbreak of World War II, on January 1, 1940, Finland notified the IOC that it was relinquishing its hosting rights. The war then spread across Europe and the rest of the world, and the 12th Olympics was aborted.
On the eve of World War II, the IOC also selected the site of the XIII Olympic Games. 1939 July 6 to 9, the IOC London Conference will be the site of the Games in London. But the Games were not held because of the war.
Olympic torch
Today's torch relay and Olympic flame, since for the ancient Olympic Games did not, and exactly where did it start? It actually has something to do with the two world wars. The first lighting of the Olympic flame took place in 1920 in honor of those who died in another world war, and in 1928, the International Olympic Committee made the lighting of the Olympic flame a mandatory part of the opening ceremony.
But the torch relay of the modern Olympic Games also thanks to Nazi Germany: before the 1936 Berlin Olympics, extreme worship of Ancient Greece, especially the Spartans of the Nazi Führer Hitler under the authorization of the head of the Berlin Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, Dr. Karl Diehm, the two customs of Ancient Greece, pinch together, the birth of the current use of a whole set of Olympic torch relay and the ceremony of the sacred flame.
On July 20, 1936, arranged by Nazi Germany, Greek priests and 14 local virgins, dressed in traditional garb, stood in the ancient Olympic stadium and gathered sunlight from the reflection of mirrors to shine on a piece of wood until it heated up and caught fire, and the holy virgins were chanting, "O sacred flame, kindled in ancient and sacred places, begin your run."
Krupp, the Nazis' largest arsenal (where the famous Krupp cannon was produced), also contributed to the Olympic torch relay, with the Krupp logo on all the torches. After a brief ceremony, this flame was relayed through Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, through a succession of 3,075 people, arriving on Aug. 1 at the Holy Flame stand in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany.
The Nazi German propaganda machine also made a big deal of this holy flame passing ceremony, and one of the most famous shots in the large documentary film Olympia, released in 1938 by Hitler's famous female director Leni Riefenstahl, is of a Greek relayer, running slowly with a torch in the dusk of the Aegean Sea.
While life was tied to fitting the Nazi aesthetic, it continued even after the fall of the Nazis because of her combination of classical and sublime rituals, and in 1948, London, which had been repeatedly bombed by the Nazis, held its first Olympic Games after World War II, and continued to use a series of rituals such as the lighting of the fire at Olympia's former site and the torch relay. Today, the torch relay has become a symbol of global solidarity, and her Nazi origins have long been forgotten.
The first Olympic Games.