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The olympic games emerged in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC (before christ)

The Olympic Games are a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletesparticipate in a variety of competitions.

The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition
The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and WinterOlympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games.

The Olympic rings are the symbol of the Olympic Games and one of the most recognized symbols inall the world .
The Olympic Movement uses symbols to represent the ideals embodied in the Olympic Charter. The Olympic symbol, better known as the Olympic rings, consists of five intertwined ringsand represents the unity of the five inhabited continents (America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe)
The colored version of the rings blue, yellow, black, green, and red over a white field forms theOlympic flag. These colors were chosen because every nation had at least one of them on its national flag. The flag was adopted in 1914 but flown for the first time only at the 1920 Summer Olympics inAntwerp, Belgium. It has since been hoisted during each celebration of the Games

The Olympic Games program consists of 26 sports, 30 disciplines and nearly 300 events. For example, wrestling is aSummer Olympic sport, comprising two disciplines: Greco-Roman and Freestyle.
The Summer Olympics program includes 26 sports, while the Winter Olympics program features 15 sports
Athletics,swimming, fencing, and artistic gymnastics are the only summer sports that have never been absent from the Olympic program. Cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, andspeed skating have been featured at every Winter Olympics program since its inception in 1924. Current Olympic sports, like badminton, basketball, and volleyball, first appeared on the program as...