Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic movement, is located in Athens, the capital of Greece.
2. Who was the founder of the ancient Olympic Games? Iphitus.
3. Who sculpted The Discus Thrower? The great ancient Greek sculptor Myron.
4. Who was the founder of the modern Olympics? The second president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Coubertin.
5. Who was honored as the "Father of the Olympics"? Pierre de Gaulle. The name "Father of the Olympics" was given to Pierre de Bruycker. Pierre de Coubertin.
6. Who was the first President of the IOC? The Greek poet Vikelas.
7. Where is the IOC headquartered?
It is located in Lausanne, Switzerland, known as the "Garden City" of the world.
8. What is the aim of the Olympic Movement?
To put sports in the service of the harmonious development of mankind in order to enhance human dignity; to promote mutual understanding among young people in the spirit of friendship,
solidarity and fair play, thus contributing to the building of a better and peaceful world; and to bring together athletes from all over the world in the Olympic Games, a grand sports festival held once every four years. together.
9. The Olympic principles are summarized as "Peace, Friendship and Progress". The Olympic motto is "Faster, Higher, Stronger". The Olympic motto is "It is important to participate, not to win".
10. Who came up with the Olympic motto?
It was an old friend of Coubertin's, Henry? Martin Ditton. Didon in 1895.
11. What day is Olympic Day? June 23rd every year.
12. What is the design of the Olympic flag? What does it mean?
The Olympic Flag is white, borderless, with five interlocking rings in the center, the colors of which are blue, yellow, black, green and red from left to right. the five rings symbolize the unity of the five continents, and the athletes from all over the world who meet at the Olympic Games in the spirit of fair play and friendship. Mascot of the 29th Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Fuwa
Mascot of the 29th Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Fuwa
Fuwa is the mascot of the 29th Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, whose colors and inspirations are derived from the five Olympic rings and the vast mountains and rivers of China, rivers, lakes and seas, as well as people's favorite animal figures. Fuwa conveys to children around the world the spirit of friendship, peace, positive and enterprising, as well as the good wishes of man and nature to live in harmony.
The Fuwa are five adorable, close-knit friends whose shapes incorporate images of fish, giant pandas, Tibetan antelopes, 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 invitation to the world, "Welcome to Beijing".
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The Fuwa represent dreams and the aspirations of the Chinese people. Their prototypes and headdresses imply their connection with the sea, forest, sacred fire, earth and sky, and their image design applies traditional Chinese artistic expressions to show China's splendid culture.
Bringing blessings to all corners of the world
For a long time, China has had a tradition of conveying blessings through symbols. Each doll of the Beijing Olympic mascot represents a good wish: prosperity, joy, passion, health and good luck. The dolls carry Beijing's hospitality and blessings to all corners of the world, inviting people from all over the world*** to gather in Beijing to celebrate the 2008 Olympic extravaganza.
Fuwa Beibei
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The blessing that Beibei conveys is prosperity. In traditional Chinese culture and art, the motifs of "fish" and "water" are symbols of prosperity and harvest, and people use "carp jumping over the dragon gate" to signify success in business and the realization of dreams. Fish" also has the connotation of "good luck" and "good fortune".
The head of Bei Bei is decorated with a Chinese Neolithic fish pattern. Bei Bei is gentle and pure, a master of water sports, and the blue ring of the five Olympic rings is a reflection of each other.
Fuwa Jingjing
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Jingjing is an innocent giant panda that brings joy to people wherever he goes. As China's national treasure, pandas are loved by people all over the world.
Jingjing comes from the vast forest, symbolizing the harmonious ****existence of man and nature. His head motif is derived from the lotus petal shape on Song porcelain. Jingjing is simple, optimistic and full of strength, representing the black ring of the five Olympic rings.
Fuwa Huanhuan
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Huanhuan is the big brother of Fuwa. He is a fire doll, symbolizing the Olympic flame. Huanhuan is the embodiment of sports passion, and he spreads his passion to the world, conveying the Olympic spirit of faster, higher and stronger. Wherever Huanhuan goes, he spreads the passion of Beijing 2008 to the world.
Huanhuan's head motif is inspired by the flames in Dunhuang murals. He is an outgoing person who is familiar with various ball sports and represents the red ring of the five Olympic rings.
Fuwa Yingying
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Yingying is a nimble and agile Tibetan antelope, who comes from the vast western part of China to spread the blessing of health to the world. Welcome is a Tibetan antelope, a protected animal unique to the Tibetan Plateau, and a manifestation of the Green Olympics.
YingYing's head is decorated with the decorative styles of the Tibetan Plateau and the western region of Xinjiang. He is agile and a good track and field athlete, representing the yellow ring of the five Olympic rings.
Fuwa Nini
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Nini comes from the sky, a swallow flying with its wings spread out, and is modeled after a traditional Beijing kite, the Sand Swallow. The name "Yan" also represents Yanjing (the ancient name for Beijing). Nini brings spring and joy to people, and sows good wishes of "good luck" wherever she flies.
The innocent, joyful and agile Nini will make her debut in the gymnastics competition, representing the green ring in the five Olympic rings The earliest games were the Ancient Olympics in Ancient Greece
The Ancient Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is the full name of the Olympic Games, and it is the first time that the Olympic Games have been held in Beijing. The word "Olympics" is derived from the Greek name "Olympia". Olympia is located 360 kilometers southwest of the city of Athens in the valley of the river Aphis, where the picturesque scenery, pleasant climate. Ancient Greeks built many temples here, so the ancients called this piece of land the city of Alpheus, also known as the "Holy Land" Olympia, according to the beliefs of the time, it symbolizes peace and friendship.
Ancient Greece and other countries in the Mediterranean region used to hold great gatherings during festivals and harvest seasons, as well as all kinds of fun and athletic activities, which were very lively. Initially, this activity was scattered and irregular, but the largest gathering was held in Olympia.
In 884 BC, war broke out in Ancient Greece, and there were continuous wars, plagues and agricultural shortages. Greek civilians are very eager for peace, miss the kind of celebration. Therefore, the king of the city-state of Elis, where Olympia was located, contacted the kings of several other city-states and reached an agreement to hold the Games at Olympia on a regular basis, and stipulated that the "Sacred Truce" would be implemented in the year of the Games. The duration of the "Holy Truce" was three months. During this period, no one was allowed to wage war. Even those who were at war had to lay down their arms and prepare to go to Olympia to participate in the Games. From this time on, there was an all-Greek competition. By 776 B.C., the first written record of the winners was made. This was what is known as the First Ancient Greek Games. After that, the games were held every four years. Therefore, the competition was held in Olympia, and it was also called the Ancient Olympic Games, or the Ancient Olympics for short. From 776 B.C. to 349 A.D., the ancient Olympic Games was abolished by the emperor of the Roman Empire, the ancient Olympic Games a **** held 293 times.
Ancient Olympics not all joy
The ancient Olympics did not mean joy for the average Olympic spectator. A typical Olympic spectator, if traveling from Athens, would have had to trek halfway across the Peloponnese, along a rugged pilgrim's trail, in the hot Mediterranean summer sun, and on foot or with the help of mule and horse treads, to cover the 300-plus kilometers from Athens to Olympia in two weeks. If you're from an overseas colony, it can take even longer by sea
When the exhausted spectators finally arrived at Olympia, the real test had just begun. Olympia's infrastructure is extremely poor, with only one decent hotel, and it is only open to diplomatic missions and officials, so the lesser nobles will have to pitch their own tents. The other 80,000 spectators - nearly half of whom were vendors selling food, drink and souvenirs - had to make themselves comfortable in the wilderness near the Temple of Zeus. As a result, it became a campground of poor sanitation during the Olympics.
Olympia's stadiums had no spectator seating or shade, and because spectators were not allowed to wear hats at the Olympics for religious reasons, people had to stand in the middle of the dusty stadiums in the hot sun from morning to night. Spectators suffered from dehydration and heatstroke because the rivers were cut off in the summer and well water was in short supply. At the time, there was no proper sewage system in Greece, and the dry riverbed became a makeshift toilet for tens of thousands of people, with garbage piled up on the spot and flies everywhere, making the sanitary conditions predictable.
It was under such conditions that the ancient Olympic Games were held continuously for more than a thousand years. It is said that the level of filth at the Olympics was so scandalous that there was a saying - for a disobedient slave, the master would say to him in a threatening tone: If you don't behave, you will be punished by going to Olympia to watch the Olympics!
Olympic Games Anthem
The first modern Summer Olympics opened on April 6, 1896 in Athens, the opening ceremony, played a solemn classical strings, in 1958, the International Olympic Committee will be it as the Olympic Games anthem, anthem composer for the Greek Samaras, lyrics for Paramas.
Olympic Games flag
In 1913, France, Coubertin proposed to set up the IOC flag, and designed for the white background, borderless, from left to right in the center of the blue, yellow, black, green, red 5 sets of rings, representing the five continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the U.S. in turn, the white background means that all the countries are able to participate in their own flags. 1914 July, the Olympic Games
will be the first time to hang the Olympic flag. In 1920, the Belgian Olympic Committee, which hosted the 5th Summer Olympic Games, presented the IOC with the same flag, which was flown during the Olympic Games, and later customized, and the flag was handed over to the previous host city at the opening of each Olympic Games, and was kept by the host city, with only borrowed items being flown in the main stadium during the games. 1952, the city of Oslo presented the IOC with the flag for the Winter Olympic Games, and the method for the handing over, preservation and use of the flag was the same as that for the Summer Olympic Games. In 1970, the IOC gave a new meaning to the flag in issue 4 of the Olympic Review: it symbolized the unity of the five continents, the athletes' meeting at the Games in a spirit of fairness, frank competition and friendship.
The Olympic Flame
In 1934, the Athens session of the International Olympic Committee decided to restore the old system of the ancient Olympic Games, during which the Olympic Flame was burned in the main stadium, and the flame was taken from the Olympics, and passed on to the host country in a torch relay, which had been used since the 9th Olympic Games of 1928, when the main games were held in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. There is a tall tower with a roaring firework. The flame was ignited by sunlight collected in a spotlight mirror and then transmitted by relay through four countries to the host country, which was the first time such an event was held at the Olympic Games. On July 20, 1936, after the lighting ceremony for the 11th Summer Olympics in Olympia, each person holding a torch ran a 1-kilometer relay through Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and then on August 1, Berlin, covering 3,075 kilometers and participating in the Olympic Games, which was the first time that the Olympic Games had been held in the United States. The whole 3075 kilometers, participate in the relay *** there are 3075 people, from this session, the International Olympic Committee officially stipulated that the lighting of the Olympic flame is an indispensable ceremony of the opening ceremony of each Olympic Games. In addition, the lighting of the flame is to commemorate the sacrifice of soldiers in a major war, while the torch relay symbolizes the friendship that spreads peace around the world.
The founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Gaulle, said the Olympic flame was "a symbol of peace and friendship".
The founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Bruycker, was the founder of the Olympic Games.
Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of the modern Olympic Games. He was born in Paris to an aristocratic family. After graduating from high school, he entered the University of Paris to study law and politics, and then went to England to study education. At that time, the British outdoor sports to Gubertin shook a lot, he aspired
to go back to change the indifference to sports in France, he was more interested in expanding the world's sports exchanges. 1863, Gubertin proposed to organize similar to the ancient Olympic Games games, but not a copy of the ancient Olympic Games in the past only limited to the participation of the Greeks to expand to a world-wide scale. Although the idea was boycotted by some opponents, but under his unremitting efforts, on June 16, 1894, 20 countries sent representatives to the University of Paris, France, held the first "International Conference on the Reconstruction of the International Olympic Games," the evening of June 23, the committee formally announced the establishment of the International Olympic Committee, which was the most important event for the world of sports. This day is of epoch-making significance for the development of world sports and for the Olympic Movement. Many countries take this day as a sports holiday, and China also designated this day as Olympic Day in 1986.
History of the modern Olympic Games
The Olympic Games have a history of 1,200 years since they were held in Olympia, Greece, in 776 AD. At that time, the sports were Pentathlon (which consisted of discus, javelin, long jump, race and wrestling), Race, Boxing, Wrestling, Pankration (a mixture of boxing and wrestling), Quadrille Racing and Horseback Riding.
The Olympic renaissance began in 1896, when Athens, Greece, hosted the first modern Olympic Games with 245 athletes from 14 countries. Since then, the number of athletes, countries and events has grown, with more than 10,000 athletes from 199 countries competing at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia.
Winter sports were first added to the Olympics in 1908 with figure skating. Hockey has been added since 1920. In 1924, the Winter Olympics were held for the first time in Chaminis, France, alone. Since 1994, the Winter Olympics have not been held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, so the Games are now held every two years, alternating between the Winter and Summer Games.
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, and they symbolize the value orientation and cultural connotation of the Olympic ideal. Today, with the continuous development and expansion of the Olympic Movement, the Olympic symbols have become a household name throughout the world and are y rooted in people's hearts.
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 International Olympic Committee. 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. In order to strengthen the protection of Olympic intellectual property rights and Olympic symbols, and to safeguard and protect the legitimate rights and interests of Olympic intellectual property rights holders and Olympic symbols rights holders, China has successively promulgated the Provisions on the Protection of Olympic Intellectual Property Rights in Beijing Municipality (Decree No. 85 of the Beijing Municipal Government of October 11, 2001) and the Regulations on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol (Order of the State Council of the People's *** and the State of China of February 4, 2002) ***State Council Decree No. 345 of February 4, 2002).
The most widely circulated symbols in the world today are the Five Olympic Rings, which have become an image of the Olympic spirit and culture with the development of the Olympic movement, and wherever the Five Rings "turn", the Olympic movement takes root and blossoms.
Talking about the origin of the five rings, there was once such an interesting story. In 1936, the 11th Berlin Olympic Games held the first torch relay activities, the torch relay route from Olympia, from northern Greece out of the country, along the Danube River through Austria, and finally into Germany. To set the stage for this symbolic event, the President of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, Karl Dürm, and his colleagues followed almost exactly the ancient style of the torch relay. Diem and his colleagues decorated the ancient Greek sites along the route almost exactly as they would have been for the ancient Olympic Games. When the torch arrived at the ancient stadium on Mount Delphi Panasas to hold a special ceremony, it was Dime's idea to design and carve the five rings of the modern Olympic movement on all sides of a rectangular stone about 3 feet high, placed 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 from the hand of Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics. The idea that the Olympic movement should have its own logo had been on his mind for a long time, and in 1913 he finally conceived the idea of a five-ringed logo and an Olympic flag with five rings on a white background, which he intended to launch 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 explanation of the five-ringed symbol by Coubertin, the conference determined that the five Olympic rings and the Olympic flag should be used as the Olympic symbol.
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 interpretation was that the five colors represented the colors of the national flags of each country, and later the five different colored rings were interpreted as symbols of the five continents.
The Olympic flag, 3 meters long and 2 meters wide, has a white background to symbolize purity. The five rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red are interlocked.The Olympic flag was first flown at the Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914.In 1920, the Olympic flag was flown for the first time at the Summer Olympic Stadium in Antwerp. After this Olympic Games, the Belgian Olympic Committee presented the IOC with an identical flag, which was flown during the Olympic Games, and later became customized, and this flag was handed over by the previous host city at the opening ceremony of each 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, and the method of handing over, keeping and using it was the same as that used in 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 Olympic flag and the five rings are meant to symbolize the unity of the five continents as well as the athletes from all over the world meeting at the Olympic Games in a spirit of fairness, frank play and friendship.
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