Olympic Games have always brought people together in peace to respect the universal unity. One day, Father Henri Martin Didon in an inter-schools athletics meeting, ended his speech with sporty energy, quoting the three words "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (faster, higher, stronger). His friend Baron Pierre de Coubertin made it the Olympic motto, pointing out that "Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. The Olympic Game is the international arena viewed by millions where the athlete's spirit, mind and body endeavor to excel and achieve the higher standard than the presently existing ones; thus fulfilling the Olympic Motto. That is why Olympic is not exclusive for a sports-person but the game for all. You will realize this after going through olympicgamesforall.com.
The Olympic creed was taken from the speech given by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot at a service for Olympic champions during the 1908 Olympic Games. The gospel for Olympic is "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
The Olympic Games originally began in 776 BCE in Olympia, Greece, and was celebrated until CE 393. In the 19th century few people initiated to revive the Olympic Games. But finally the first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. The International Olympic Committee was founded with the initiative of a French nobleman in 1894, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The current Olympic Games program includes 35 sports and nearly 400 events. Next Summer Olympic Games is going to be held in Beijing, China. The preparation is going in a big way.
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