The Olimpic Games

          The ancient Greeks said that sport was good exercises for the body. They also said that sport would help develop mind and character. Thus, they thought that sport was as necessary as sciences. During 19th century Europeans and americans began to have the same idea about sport as the ancient greek did. So they agreed to establish sport organization. While schools and universities in this century began to take sport seriously, the workers in town also did the same thing and founded sports organization. At this time the modern rules of many games including football, cricket, hockey, baseball, tennis, and many more were made.

            The olimpic games are popular sport events. The olimpic games originally started thousands years ago in ancient greece. The greek held the games every four years as a religious festival in honour of the supreme Greek God Zeus. These games included racing, wrestling, and jumping contents. Then these games died out in AD 394. In 1896 a Frenchman, Baron Piere de Coubertin, started the modern Olimpic Games. He believed that international sports competition would make good will and peace between nations and increase the international relationship.


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