The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia,a small town in Greece. Participants in the first Olympiad are said to have run a 200-yard race,but as the Games were held every four years,they expanded in scope.(1) ______________________________________________.
The event became a religious, patriotic,and athletic occasion where winners were honored with wreaths and special privileges.(2) _______________________________________________.They were banned in 394 A.D. by Emperor Theodosius,after they became professional circuses and carnivals.The modern Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896 as a result of the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin,a French educator whose desire was to
promote international understanding through athletics.Nine nations participated in the first Games;over 100 nations currently compete.The taint of politics and racial controversy,however, is the block for the Olympic Games in our epoch.In 1936 Hilter, whose country hosted the Games,affronted Jesse Owens, a black American runner,by refusing to congratulate Owens for the feat of having won four gold medals.(3) _____________________________________.The next Olympic Games in Montreal
were boycotted by African nations;in addition, Taiwan withdrew.In 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,sixty-two nations caused great dismay to their athletes by refusing to participate in the Games.The consensus among those nations was that their refusal would warn the Soviets.
only Greek amateurs were allowed to participate in this festival in honor of the god Zeus.
There was a profound change in the nature of the games under the Roman Emperors
in the 1972 munich games the world was appalled by the murder of 11 isreali athletes by Arab terrorists
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