Sports and exercise keeps an individual physically fit and boosts him to fit socially among others easily. However they have a vast curriculum based system for each and every sport human created and packed based on the ability with guidelines.
These sports are conducted regional, intra based and also inter based levels.
Among the famous athletics event the precious one is OLYMPICS which is an international level of athletic event conducted once in every 4 years.
This year the Olympics is ongoing in Tokyo!!
Guess what we planned to give you unknown facts about the Olympics event and the history too.
HISTORY OF OLYMPICS
The Olympics created idea because of a soldier named Pheidippides who ran from marathon to Athens which is approx 25 kilometres to inform about the outcome of the war result held between Persian and Athens. Because of that specific info where Athenians won the war and he died after telling the information. In the remembrance of this event the Athena created a sport event where it named as Marathon exactly the same distance the soldier ran to inform was let to be the target.
This event then improved lately in the late 18th century. Olympics is then added with innovative ideas, Games, Business ideas etc...
TOP 10 UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT OLYMPICS
#10
WOMEN EQUALITY
Initially, on the first great Olympics only men were allowed to participate in the event which was held on 1896. Later on 1900 women were also allowed to participate which was the Second Olympics event.
But only from 2012 Olympics every country had their women participants. Nearly a century took place to make women equal pawn in sports as men.
#09
REAL KILLING
Did you ever heard about the real pigeons were killed on Olympics event?
In the 1900 Olympics event Pigeons used as shooting material and 300 flock of birds revealed to the shooters and guess what Belgium Leon de Lunden was the winner who shot 21 birds among 300. This event was rejected after the Paris Olympics.
#08
MOTTO
This was really not a unknown fact but very important one The motto of the Great Olympics which builds strength and sets the limits to the participants and the will to fight and win the competition.
Motto : Citius, Altius, Fortis which means (Swifter, Higher, Stronger)
#07
REASON FOR OLYMPIC RINGS
The real Olympic flag consists of 5 colors in it. blue, yellow, black, green & red. The rings hold these colors because the committee decides the common colors of the whole country flags must be symbolised in it. However these five colors are most used colors in the country flags. It came quite handy.
#06
REASON FOR OLYMPIC TORCH
The ancient Olympics event was believed that the flame was burned from the start to end of the event. From 1928, Amsterdam Olympics the Olympic torch event takes place in every Olympic where the players run a relay and the torch been carried and passed to every runners and then finally the flame created which is then kept burning until the end of the event. It also stands for purity and other meaning too.
#05
1912 LAST YEAR OF GOLD
The medals received by the winners is not really Full Gold. Gold medal it is 92.5 % silver with 6 grams of gold. The full gold medal were given until 1912 Olympics. And so it is the last year for the gold medal.
#04
WAR AND VIRALOUTBREAK
The Olympic event was postponed only in a criticalsituations. Recently 2020 Olympics postponed and been held in 2021 in Tokyo. It is because of Covid outbreak. Before that, only war was the reason! 1916 WWI and 1940 and 1944 WWII.
#03
TOKYO 2020 MEDAL PROJECT
This year Olympics is the first Olympic event where the medals are been created by old appliances and electronic device wastes. The first time recycled materials used in an Olympic event is 2020 TOKYO Olympics event.
#02
STADIUM REAL ORIGIN
Actually the Olympic event which was held during the 700 BC period had only one event which was running called as STAD which means 600 yards. This word stad brought the idea to name the location of the place where the event takes place as STADIUM.
Now you know the word stadium was originated because of the olympic event.
#01
SPORTSMANSHIP ACT
In 1936 Olympics Pole vault game Bill Sefton from America won the gold, but the second place was tied between Japanese athlets Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe. They were set to a tie breaker round which would have determined the second and third place. But instead they refused it and done a Sportsmanship and friendship arising event where they accepted to share the medals by cutting and merging half silver and bronze. Still now it is a resemblance of sportsmanship act with friendship.
Japan's Waseda University has it today too.
Hope, these facts may be a new one to you!!
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