The contemporary Olympics began in 1896. The opening games were held in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece. This denoted the rebirth of the ancient Olympics Games, which was originally celebrated between 776 BCE and 393 CE. The Olympic Games have expanded into a major international sporting extravaganza held in major world cities like Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Los Angeles, Beijing, and Tokyo, and which allows almost every nation to be represented.
The ancient Olympic Games started in a small town in Olympia, Greece, in 776 BCE. The event occurred every four years, and it was a religious festival in honour of Zeus, the god of the sky and thunder in ancient Greek mythology, who ruled as the king of the gods of Mount Olympus. Zeus’s statue is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
In the early days, the original event of the Olympics Games was the Stadion race (Stade), which was a 192-metre footrace. Over the years, other events were added such as diaulos,…