Games or Olympic Games, a sports event or four established in Greece (776 BC) in order to consolidate national unity policy; disputavano to Olimpia. In the first Summer Olympics, took place just a few races run fast. Subsequently, the programme of the Games were introduced competitions race with wagons, fighting, boxing, javelin and launch of the disc, dolico (drag racing), pentathlon, with the arms race and so on. Sospese from 277 to 369 d.C. The Olympics were abolished in 393 by Theodoric at the request of Ambrose, bishop of Milan. After about fifteen centuries the French De Coubertin had the idea to revive the Olympic Games. His project was approved on 23-6-1894 by an international congress meeting in Paris on 16-4-1896 in Athens was open the first modern Olympics, with 285 athletes from 13 nations. Twelve sports in the programme: athletics, gymnastics, fencing, fighting, shooting, swimming, cycling, riding, tennis, weights, sailing and canoeing. Since then, the Olympics were held every 4 years. Since 1924 will take place the Olympic Winter Games. Since 1994 (1992) were held Winter Olympics in Lillehammer: thus, the organizers wanted to ensure that in future Winter Olympic Games take place in the same year of summer .

Modern Olympics
The Athens Olympics 1896
II Paris 1900 Olympics
Saint Louis III Olympiad 1904
IV 1908 London Olympics
V 1912 Stockholm Olympics
VI Olympiad not celebrated
VII 1920 Antwerp Olympics
Paris VIII Olympiad 1924
IX 1928 Amsterdam Olympics
X Los Angeles Olympics 1932
XI Olympics Berlin 1936
XII Olympiad not celebrated
XIII Olympiad not celebrated
XIV 1948 London Olympics
XV 1952 Helsinki Olympics
XVI 1956 Melbourne Olympics
XVII 1960 Rome Olympics
XVIII 1964 Tokyo Olympics
XIX Mexico Olympics 1968
Monaco XX Olympiad 1972
Montreal XXI Olympiad 1976
XXII 1980 Moscow Olympics
Los Angeles XXIII Olympiad 1984
XXIV 1988 Seoul Olympics
XXV 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics
Atlanta XXVI Olympiad 1996
XXVII Sydney 2000 Olympics
XXVIII Olympiad Athens 2004

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