Urgent! Olympic information

1. The modern Olympic movement rose in the capitalist industrial era in Europe, but its origin can be traced back to the Olympic Games in ancient Greece. The ancient Olympic Games was held every four years. From the first recorded Olympic Games in 776 BC to 393 AD, * * * held a total of 293 sessions, which lasted165,438+069, and experienced the emergence, development and decline of several classes.

First of all, the natural environment of ancient Greece and the formation of competitive sports customs.

The superior geographical location made ancient Greece a meeting point of various cultures, accelerated the process of social development, made outstanding contributions to mankind in various fields such as science, culture, art and sports, and became the birthplace of western civilization. Competitive sports is an important part of Greek life.

Second, the events of the early Olympic Games also reflected the development relationship between the war and the ancient Olympic Games. In the 500 years since 776 AD, the Olympic events have gradually expanded, from a single competition to wrestling, mixed martial arts, boxing, four-horse chariots, horse racing, wrestling, horse racing and pentathlon. Most of these events are related to military skills, which reflects the role of war in promoting the development of Olympic events. Although the events of the ancient Olympic Games had obvious military brand, the Olympic Games itself was a grand event of the whole Greek nation. Although there are frequent conflicts between the city-states, they are also closely related. Especially since the 8th century BC, with the rise of the ancient Greek colonial movement, a Greek civilization circle has been formed in the Mediterranean region.

Third, the religious customs of ancient Greece and the formation of the Olympic model.

The ancient Olympic Games is a pan-Greek religious celebration, which has the following three characteristics: first, the worship of the gods of Olympus; Second, there is a unique sacrificial system; Third, there are rich religious myths and legends.

Fourth, the rise and fall of the ancient Olympic Games.

It can be roughly divided into three stages. The first stage (8th century BC-6th century BC) developed into a grand event attended by Greek city-states. The second stage (6th century BC-4th century BC) was the heyday of slavery in ancient Greek city-states, and the ancient Olympic Games reached its peak. In the third stage (4th century BC-4th century AD), ancient Greece was conquered by Macedonia and the Roman Empire, and the ancient Olympic Games entered a period of decline.

Second, the motivation of the Olympic movement:

In order to meet the needs of international sports development,/kloc-in the second half of the 9th century, with the development of international political and economic situation, modern sports showed two obvious development trends. One is the rapid development of competitive sports, and the other is the internationalization trend of sports. 188 1 year, the first international individual sports organization, the International Gymnastics Federation, was established. With the expansion of international sports exchanges, it has become an urgent need of the times to establish a comprehensive stage for international sports exchanges and an international sports organization that coordinates the activities of individual organizations and plays a management role.

Finally, at the suggestion of Coubertin 1893, the French Federation of Athletics Associations held an international sports conference. Discuss the revival of the Olympic Games.

1894 the international sports conference was grandly opened at the Sorbonne theological seminary in Paris. And adopted an important document-the resolution on "Resuming the Olympic Games". As the first Olympic Games will be held in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games from 65438 to 0896, Kailas VI of Greece will be the first president and Coubertin will be the secretary-general. Congress stipulates which country's big cities hold the Olympic Games every four years.

Three. Comparison of Main Features between Modern Olympic Games and Ancient Olympic Games

1. The name "Olympic Games" has already been used.

2. Inherited the tradition of "Olympia" with a cycle every four years.

3. Learn from and develop some ceremonies of the ancient Olympic Games.

4. Absorbed and developed the traditional ideas of ancient Olympic Games.

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I. Olympic events:

The 28 major events and minor events of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will remain unchanged. There are still three years before the 2008 Olympic Games, and the project is basically determined. So, how are the Olympic events divided?

According to the information of the International Olympic Committee, Olympic events are divided into sports events, discipline events and individual events.

Like Athens Olympic Games, Beijing Olympic Games has 28 sports, including track and field, rowing, badminton, softball, basketball, football, boxing, kayaking, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, water sports, modern pentathlon, baseball, equestrian, taekwondo, tennis and table tennis.

Some of these events have no disciplines, and the most disciplines are water events, including swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and diving. Although there are no disciplines in track and field, there are 46 events, including 24 men's events and 22 women's events, which are the most gold medals in the Olympic Games. Followed by swimming, although there is no subject, there are 32 events, male and female 16.

International Olympic Committee President Rogge said that Wushu will appear as a competition in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and its full name is "Beijing 2008 Olympic Wushu Competition".

Rogge made the above remarks when attending the opening ceremony of the 10th National Games in China. He said that although Wushu competition is different from the other 28 major events of the Olympic Games, it is a major breakthrough for Wushu to enter the Olympic stage.

According to Wang Xiaolin, director of the Wushu Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport, Rogge talked about Beijing's Olympic bid in an interview with the media in Nanjing on June 5438+03. This is also the first time that Rogge said that Wushu will become an event in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and also clarified the rumor that "Wushu will become a performance event in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games".

It is reported that the International Wushu Federation and the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee will have a more in-depth discussion with the International Olympic Committee on the details of the Wushu competition in Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

28 major events

302 activities

303 gold medals

No, according to the Olympic Charter, if you want to become an Olympic event, you must decide seven years before the Olympic Games that new events will appear as performance events before you can join the Olympic Games.

Second, the Olympic mascot:

Fuwa is the mascot of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Its color and inspiration come from the Olympic rings and the vast mountains and rivers of China.

Rivers, lakes and seas and people's favorite animal images. Fuwa conveys friendship, peace, enterprising spirit and harmony between man and nature to children all over the world.

Best wishes for this place.

Fuwa are five lovely close friends whose shapes combine the images of fish, giant panda, Olympic flame, Tibetan antelope and swallow.

Fuwa Beibei Fuwa Jingjing Fuwa Huanhuan Fuwa Yingying Fuwa Nini

Every doll has a catchy name: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini. In China, they have overlapping names.

Chinese characters are a traditional way to express love for children. When you connect the names of five dolls, you will read Beijing's kind invitation to the world "Beijing Huan"

Welcome. "

Fuwa represents the dreams and aspirations of the people of China. Their prototypes and headdresses contain their connection with the ocean, forest, fire, earth and sky.

Its image design uses the expression technique of China traditional art and shows the splendid culture of China.

Bring blessings to all corners of the world.

For a long time, China has a tradition of conveying blessings through symbols. Every doll in the mascot of the Beijing Olympic Games represents a beautiful wish: complexity.

Glory, joy, passion, health and good luck. With the enthusiasm of Beijing, the dolls brought blessings to all corners of the world and invited people from all over the world to gather in Beijing.

Celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games.

Beibei's blessing is prosperity. In China traditional culture and art, the patterns of "fish" and "water" are symbols of prosperity and harvest, and people use them.

"Carp yue longmen" means successful career and dream realization, and "Fish" also means good luck every year.

Beibei's head decoration adopts the fish pattern of Neolithic age in China. Beibei is gentle and pure. She is a master of water sports and one of the five Olympic rings.

Blue circles reflect each other.

Jingjing is a naive giant panda, and wherever she goes, she will bring joy to people. As the national treasure of China, the giant panda has won the love of people all over the world.

Love.

Jingjing comes from the vast forest, symbolizing the harmony between man and nature. His head decoration originated from the lotus petal shape on Song porcelain. Jingjing hanhoule

Perspective, full of power, represents the black link in the Olympic rings.

Huanhuan is Fuwa's eldest brother. He is a fire doll, symbolizing the Olympic flame. Huanhuan is the embodiment of sports passion, which he spreads all over the world.

The world will convey the Olympic spirit faster, higher and stronger. Everywhere Huanhuan went, Beijing 2008 was full of enthusiasm for the world.

Huanhuan headdress originated from the flame patterns in Dunhuang murals. He is outgoing and unrestrained, and is familiar with all kinds of ball games, representing the red in the Olympic rings.

A circle of colors.

Yingying is a clever, agile and flying Tibetan antelope. He comes from the vast western land of China and sends his best wishes to the world. english-english

It is a unique protected animal in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and a demonstration of the Green Olympics.

Yingying's head decoration combines the decorative styles of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Xinjiang and other western regions. He is agile and an excellent track and field athlete, representing the Olympic Five.

The yellow circle in the ring.

Nini is from the sky. She is a swallow spreading her wings and flying. Her modeling creativity comes from the traditional Shayan kite in Beijing. "Yan" also represents Yanjing (ancient Beijing

) title. Nini brings spring and joy to people. Wherever she flies, she spreads good wishes of "good luck".

Naive, cheerful and agile Nini will make her debut in gymnastics competition. She represents the green ring in the Olympic rings. Ten reasons for choosing Beijing.

1. China is the most populous country in the world, but it has never hosted the Olympic Games. If the 2008 Olympic Games are held in Beijing, China, which has one fifth of the world's population and 400 million teenagers, the Olympic ideal and spirit will be more widely popularized and carried forward.

2. Have the economic strength to host the Olympic Games. Beijing is a city with great development potential. In the past decade, the economy has been growing at a double-digit rate. From 65438 to 0999, the city's GDP was $24 billion, with a per capita GDP of more than $2,000.

3. Excellent athletic performance. Won the fourth place in the total number of gold medals and medals in two consecutive Olympic Games. Up to now, China athletes have won 13 17 world championships, exceeding the world record 1026 times.

4. Political stability and social stability. Among the major capital cities in the world, Beijing is one of the cities with the lowest crime rate, traffic mortality rate and fire incidence rate, and the urban security guarantee has the ability to hold large-scale sports events.

5. splendid culture. Beijing has a history of 3,000 and 800 years, with many places of interest and rich cultural heritage.

6. Rich experience in hosting large-scale sports games. Beijing not only successfully hosted 1 1 Asian Games and 1994 Sixth Far South Paralympic Games, but also won the right to host the 2006 February1World Universiade.

7. A beautiful Olympic Park is being designed. Beijing will build an Olympic Park with the most beautiful urban environment in the north, covering an area of 1 2 15 hectares, including a main stadium with 80,000 people, 14 stadium, athletes' village and international exhibition center. , plus 760 hectares of forest and green space, will be very suitable for athletes to compete and rest.

8. First-class social service facilities such as communication, transportation and hotels. There are 344 star-rated hotels in Beijing with 72,000 rooms (sets). During the Olympic Games, the reception capacity was 400,000, and the annual passenger traffic of the Capital Airport was 35 million. These routes connect any country or city in the world.

9. Support from the central government. On May 8, 2000, Premier Zhu Rongji said: The China government fully supports Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games and will create favorable conditions for Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games.

10. Strong support from the people. According to a family survey of Beijing residents conducted by an independent survey company, 94.6% of the residents support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

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6 yearning for the Olympic Games

First, the description of teaching materials

With the help of the author's special experience and unique feelings, this article expresses his excitement and pride in China's successful bid for the Olympic Games.

The whole class revolves around "how great it is for a country and a city to host an Olympic Games" to express the author's excitement and pride. Firstly, the text leads to the author's feelings when he interviewed the Barcelona Olympic Games from the reasons for the success and excitement of the Olympic bid. Then, I naturally recalled the wonderful moment when the Barcelona Olympic Games ended, and generally talked about the reasons for this feeling-sports are not just sports, it affects everything with its own special charm; Then, from the comparison between competitive sports and art competitions, it shows that competitive sports embodies fairness, openness, justice and objectivity, and realizes the ideal of human pursuit of true equality and fair competition. The wonderful experience of interviewing the Olympic Games and Olympic stars shows that the Olympic spirit is linked with world peace, friendship, progress and development. Finally, the author remembered Barcelona's strong desire to host the Olympic Games, and this desire has become a reality today, so he ended with "this day has finally arrived", and his excitement and pride are beyond words.

The purpose of choosing this passage is to guide students to understand the Olympic spirit, to inspire students' yearning for peace, friendship and progress, and to yearn for their country to go to the world and a better tomorrow. Secondly, if conditions permit, students' ability to collect information can be improved by collecting anecdotes about the Olympic Games and information about Beijing's preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Second, learning objectives

1? Learn nine new words. Can read and write the following words correctly: power, brightness, generation, charm, demolition, application, splash, colorful, starry sky, equality.

2? Read the text correctly, fluently and emotionally.

3? Understand the content of the text and realize the great significance of China's successful bid for the Olympic Games.

Third, teaching suggestions

1. At the beginning of teaching, teachers can let students exchange the collected relevant information first. If the students don't know much, the teacher can show a wall chart of the Olympic logo, briefly introduce the Olympic Games and Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games, and broadcast a video celebrating the success of the bid for the Olympic Games nationwide. Then, teachers guide students to recall, exchange what they saw, heard and felt when Beijing successfully applied for the Olympic Games, and introduce new lessons.

2. The focus of this course is to guide students to experience the feeling of "one country, one city, how great it is to host an Olympic Games", so as to understand the great significance of China's successful bid for the Olympic Games. This is also the difficulty of primary school students. The main way to break through this difficulty is to understand and grasp the author's emotions as a whole through repeated reading tastes, and arouse students' yearning for the Olympic Games with passion.

First, let students read since the enlightenment by themselves, initially perceive the content of the text, and roughly grasp the emotional tone. Students can read the text completely independently. After reading, guide the students to talk about the main content of the text, and talk about their own reading feelings from various angles, especially from the text. For example, from "Very Happy, Very Excited", I realized that the author was very excited because of his successful bid for the Olympic Games. From "one country, one city, ...", I realized the author's pride in China's successful Olympic bid.

From the sentences such as "I can hardly forget the Barcelona Olympic Games …" and "I miss interviewing them …", I realize that the author "has a special feeling for sports and the Olympic Games". From such things as "At that time, we were actively applying ..." This day has finally come, "... it will be a more unforgettable and wonderful experience" and "I suddenly felt a strong desire ...", I realized the author's longing for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games ... and exchanged bits and pieces of reading feelings together, and the students roughly grasped the author's emotional tone. Then, guide the students to find out the profound sentences in the text, read them first, think in the context, and then organize exchanges and discussions after the students have their own opinions. After students understand the key sentences, they can be guided to read the text with emotion, especially some key paragraphs, and read more to strengthen students' feelings.

3. The key sentences of the text, the second question "Thinking and Practice" has been listed in two sentences, and students can look for it again. Guide students to understand these sentences, and pay attention to the context and real life.

(1) Sports is not only a sport, it affects everything with its own special charm.

To guide students to understand this sentence, we can contact the following analysis of the characteristics of competitive sports and the author's feelings when interviewing Olympic stars. Competitive sports are characterized by "winning or losing in a few seconds and centimeters" and "rare fairness, openness, justice and objectivity", and this concept of fairness, openness, justice and objectivity has gone beyond the scope of sports itself and has become the pursuit of human survival. The author's feelings after interviewing Olympic stars are "feeling youth, strength, friendship and peace", and "generate, the Olympic spirit of sports institutes, is indeed surpassing different countries, different nationalities and different skin colors, and connecting the peace, friendship, progress and development of the world". It can be seen that sports is not just sports, it affects everything.

(2) Competitive sports is a struggle and an ideal in the face of various powers, racial discrimination and unfairness under the cover of money.

This sentence is long and complicated. First of all, we can use abbreviations to guide students to understand the contents of sentences. Let the students know that this sentence mainly says "competitive sports is a struggle and an ideal". What is the object of struggle? This is a struggle against injustice under the cover of power, racial discrimination and money.

After finding out what the sentence says, students can be guided to understand the meaning of "unfairness under the cover of various powers, racial discrimination and money" in combination with various ills in today's world. Then, in connection with the above-mentioned "fighting for victory in a few seconds and centimeters is rarely fair, open, just and objective", this sentence is intended to show that there are too many unfair and unjust phenomena in today's world, and people have found their ideal fair competition in sports competitions. Therefore, it can be said that people's unfair resistance to the real world and people's ideal of realizing real equality are pinned on competitive sports.

4. Guide students to read the text with emotion and express their reading feelings. One of the characteristics expressed in this article is to express one's strong feelings and yearning in passionate language. Reading aloud can be used to guide teaching: for the first paragraph of reading aloud, the scene of the country celebrating the successful bid for the Olympic Games can be reproduced by large-screen projection, which will arouse students' emotional excitement and let students read the author's excitement in a relatively high and stirring tone; Read aloud to the second paragraph, so that students can imagine the picture while listening to the Olympic songs, and read out the author's aftertaste and intoxication of the past in a soothing, relaxed and fascinating tone. When reading the fourth and sixth paragraphs, we should read the author's strong desire to interview the Olympic Games held in our country in a more urgent tone. When reading the last paragraph aloud, play the scene of the whole country celebrating the success of the Olympic bid again, so that students can read the author's incomparable excitement, pride and satisfaction in a more passionate tone.

The purpose of choosing two questions is to deepen the feeling of learning the text and cultivate the ability of collecting information and expressing. Students can be encouraged to choose for themselves. Students will organize a report exchange after they choose to do it. Especially for the first question, we can communicate in the form of mock interview, which is also a meaningful oral communication exercise.

6. There are many new words in this class, most of which should be guided to understand in context. Some allow students to look up the dictionary first and then understand the meaning in the context. The following explanations are for teachers' reference only.

Brilliance: Brilliant, flowing and very beautiful.

Breathing through the heart and spleen: This lesson describes enjoying beautiful music, giving people a fresh and hearty feeling.

Equal treatment: equal treatment.

Compare every penny: this lesson refers to not letting go of the smallest difference, that is, winning or losing in the smallest difference. Ancient heavy Rubik's cube

A unit of measurement, a quarter of one or two. Thai baht is an ancient unit of weight, which is one quarter of one or two.

Charm: A particularly attractive force.

Sports competition: sports competition.

Racial discrimination: being treated unfairly because of different races.

Fourth, reference materials.

The full name of the Olympic Games is the Olympic Games, which is an international comprehensive sports competition. The Olympics originated in ancient Greece. At that time, there were many Greek city-states and wars between countries continued. People of all countries long for peace. Originally a sports competition for offering sacrifices to gods, it has gradually turned into a sports meeting for peace and friendship. In 776 BC, the first All-Greek Games was held in Olympia. During the Games, Greece kept the peace, even the warring parties had to lay down their arms and call a truce. Anyone who violates it will be severely punished. By the end of 19, war threatened the world, and many peace-loving people called for the restoration of the Olympic Games and the development of the Olympic spirit. The first modern Olympic Games was held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. From now on, it will be held every four years At the Olympic Games, athletes from all over the world compete fairly in many sports competitions.

During the Olympic Games, people all over the world paid attention to the game and even watched it on TV all night. The Olympic Games is not only a world-wide sports competition, but also promotes mutual understanding among the people of the world and promotes world peace, friendship and progress. The five rings in the Olympic flag are connected, symbolizing the unity of the five continents in the world and symbolizing that athletes from all countries gather in the sports meeting in the spirit of fair competition and friendship.

In order to strengthen sports cultural exchanges with other countries, enhance friendship and cooperation with other countries, and promote world peace and development, on September 6, 1999, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee was formed by the State Sports General Administration, the Beijing Municipal People's Government and relevant departments of the State Council, which officially opened the bid curtain. 2001July 200812nd plenary session of the International Olympic Committee held in Moscow, Beijing won the right to host the 29th modern Olympic Games in 2008.

The city name of Barcelona. Located in the northeast of Spain, it is the country's largest commercial port and industrial center.

It held the 25th Olympic Games in 1992.

Some athletes mentioned in the article.

Deng Yaping, a female table tennis player in China, is known as the "table tennis witch". Won the world championship many times. 1992 gold medal in women's singles and women's doubles (with Qiao Hong) in Barcelona Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee President Samaranch personally presented the award to her.

Fu Mingxia, a female diver from China, has won many world championships. 1992, Fu Mingxia, who was dissatisfied with 14 years old, won the gold medal in the Barcelona Olympic Games with absolute advantage.

Gao Min, a female diver from China, has won many world championships. 1992, gold medal winner of Barcelona Olympic Games.

Li Ning, a male gymnast in China, has won many world championships and is called "Prince of gymnastics".

Li is a Chinese male gymnast. Won the gold medal in floor exercise at the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Luan Jujie China female fencer. 1984 won the gold medal in women's foil at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Ye Chong, Dong and Wang Haibin are members of the China Men's Foil Team. At the Atlanta Olympic Games, because of a mistake in translation, the competition time was delayed, and I hurried to the stage before I had time to prepare, only winning the silver medal.

Xiao Aihua is a female fencer in China. She participated in four consecutive Olympic Games and was praised as "the first female swordsman in China".

Ukrainian men's pole vaulter bubka. He has won many world championships.

American male track and field athlete Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals and set a new world record nine times.

Sotomayor Cuban male track and field athlete. He set a world record for men's high jump, which no one can break so far.

Danish male track and field athletes in Kipketer. He once set a world record for men's 800 meters.

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The first Olympic games

Time: April 61896 ~ April 15.

Venue: Athens, Greece

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From June 65438 to June 0894, Athens, a historic city, won the right to host the first modern Olympic Games through the negotiation of the Paris International Sports Conference.

The first Olympic Games overcame many difficulties and finally opened on April 6th. 1896. This is the earliest month of previous Olympic Games. The host chose the opening ceremony on this day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Greece's uprising against Turkish rule.

At 3 pm on April 6, King George I of Greece announced the opening of the conference. IOC officials such as Wei Calhas and Coubertin attended the opening ceremony. In the opening ceremony, solemn classical strings were played, and 1958 was designated as the Olympic anthem by the International Olympic Committee. The composer of the national anthem is Greek samaras and the lyricist is palamas. The Greeks showed great enthusiasm for the conference, and the audience attending the opening ceremony reached 80 thousand, which was not broken until 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Invited to participate in the first modern Olympic Games are 365,438+065,438+0 athletes from Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, the United States, France, Chile, Switzerland, Sweden and the host country Greece, with the largest team of ***230, accounting for two-thirds of the total; Germany and France each 19; The United States 14 people ranked fourth. Most American players come from Harvard and Princeton University. In order to travel to Europe, they organized themselves and raised funds themselves. They thought that the conference would open on April 18, but they didn't know that the opening date was April 6 until April 1 arrived in Italy, so they had to give up all their sightseeing plans and arrive in Athens before the opening. The host of the first Olympic Games followed the old system of the ancient Olympic Games, and female athletes were not allowed to participate. As for the qualifications of participating countries, unlike today's regulations, non-IOC members are not allowed to participate. Greece has invited countries all over the world, including China, but most countries didn't send teams because they didn't know much about the Olympic Games or for other reasons, and China is one of them. Greece's neighbor Italy once went to Milan for a player, which was the only player sent by Italy. But the organizing committee thought he was a professional athlete, so he was not allowed to participate.

The marble stadium in Athens was the main stadium of the first Olympic Games. It was rebuilt on the ruins of the ancient stadium in Athens. Australia, Bulgaria, Austria, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, the United States, France, Chile, Sweden and Switzerland were invited to participate in the first Olympic Games. Together with the host, there are * * * 3 1 1 athletes from 13 countries. According to records, the International Olympic Committee sent an invitation to the Qing government, but the Qing government at that time did not know what the Olympic Games were and ignored it. Other Asian and African countries also failed to accept the invitation to participate in the competition.

The first Olympic Games included track and field, swimming, weightlifting, shooting, cycling, Greco-Roman wrestling (then called Greco-Roman), gymnastics, fencing and tennis. Rowing was originally planned, but it was not held later. The host did not set up the 200-meter race, which is the only time in the history of the Olympic Games.

On April 6th, the competition kicked off. American James connolly, the triple jump champion, won the first champion of the modern Olympic Games with 13.438+0 meters. After he won, the stars and stripes were played on the playground and the American flag was raised. Since then, playing the national anthem and raising the national flag have become the awarding ceremony of the Olympic Games. In the men's 100-meter final, Thomas Burke of the United States adopted the "squat" starting method and finally won the championship with 12 second. This year's 1 10 meter hurdles, the actual race distance is 100 meter, with only 8 hurdles. In the competition, athletes' hurdling postures are also varied, and some even jump over the hurdles with their legs before running. There are seven people in the preliminaries, and only two people are left in the final. As a result, American hurdler Thomas Curtis won the crown.

The most exciting and exciting scene of Athens Olympic Games is the marathon. Before the Olympic Games, French linguist Michel Brill visited Greece and expressed admiration for the legendary hero Ferdinand Peters in the marathon. In 490 BC, Greece defeated the invading Persian army in the Marathon Valley. At that time, the messenger Ferdinand Peters was ordered to quickly convey the news of this victory to Athens, which was waiting for rescue. Regardless of fatigue, he ran from marathon to Athens. After arriving in Athens, he was exhausted and only said, "We won!" " Just died in the square. Feeling this heroic deed, Brill wrote to Coubertin, proposing to add a marathon to the track and field events of the Olympic Games and donating a Brill Silver Cup as a reward for the champion.

The Athens Marathon uses the route that Ferdinand Peters once ran, from marathon to Athens, with a total distance of 40 kilometers. At that time, there were only 65,438+035,000 people in Athens, but as many as 6,543.8 million people watched the marathon. When Spiridon Ruiz, a Greek athlete wearing a light blue vest, was the first to rush into the stadium, all the audience cheered and cheered. King George I stepped down from the viewing platform and personally greeted the victorious hero. The crowd poured into the stadium, scrambling to hug Ruiz and throw him into the air. He won the glorious title of Greek national hero. However, Ruiz did not enjoy the honor of being a high official, but returned to his remote hometown, continued to be a postman in his hometown, and lived a poor life with his wife and children until his death in 1940. In memory of him, people carved the symbol of the Olympic rings on his tombstone. Marathon pushed the first Olympic Games to a climax. Since then, the sport has become popular all over the world, and Ruiz has been called "the soul of the Olympic Games".

The swimming competition is held on the high seas, and the floating boat pulls the cable as the starting and finishing line. The distance has not been measured carefully, but it is only a rough estimate. During the sports meeting, the weather was cold, the sea was cold, and the waves were very urgent, and some players even flinched. Alfred Harhos of Hungary won the100m and1200m freestyle, becoming Hungary's first Olympic gold medal.