History Of Olympics
HISTORY OF OLYMPICS we all know that The modern Olympic Games or Olympics, are the leading international sporting events, featuring summer and winter sports competitions, in which thousands of athletes, from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, alternating between the Summer and Winter Olympics, every two years in the four-year period. have you ever wondered where it all began. According to one Greek myth, it was Zeus who initiated the Olympic Games to celebrate his victory over his father, Cronos. While it is certain that the Games were held regularly long before the first recorded instance in 776 B.C.E., historian Pausanias writing in the second century c.e., states that it was the ninth-century B.C.E. king Iphitus who "arranged the games at Olympia and re-established afresh the Olympic festival and truce, after an interruption of uncertain length. At thi...