古代奥运会自公元前776年于希腊的奥林匹亚举行以来,已经有1200年的历史.最早是一种宗教仪式,逐渐演变成体育活动,当时的比赛项目有五项全能（包含铁饼、标枪、跳远、赛跑和摔跤）、赛跑、拳击、摔跤、拳击角力（拳击和摔跤的混合运动）、四轮马车赛跑和骑马.古代奥运会体现了人们和平的愿望,在奥运期间,交战双方会休战,但是,古代奥运会最终还是因为战争而停止.
奥林匹克的复兴始自1896年,在奥运祖师拜旦的努力下,当时在希腊的雅典举办了第一次现代奥运会,有来自14个国家的245名运动员参加.此后,参赛运动员、参赛国家和比赛项目与日俱增,在2000年澳大利亚的悉尼奥运会上,有来自199个国家的10,000多名运动员参赛.成为全球最盛大的聚会,奥运会提出的“更快、更高、更强”精神,体现了现代人追求幸福生活的精神.
冬季体育项目最早在1908年添加到奥运会中,当时是花样滑冰运动.冰球项目自1920年加入.在1924年,冬奥会第一次在法国的查米尼斯单独举行.自1994年起,冬奥会定于不和夏季奥运会同年举行,因此目前奥运会为每两年一届,冬奥会和夏季奥运会交替进行.
Since the ancient Olympic Games in Greece in 776 BC in Olympia held since 1200 has been the history.The first is a kind of ritual,and gradually evolving into sports,the event was a pentathlon (including discus,javelin,long jump,running and wrestling),running,boxing,wrestling,boxing wrestling (wrestling,boxing and mixed Movement),4 chariot racing and horse riding.Ancient Olympic Games embody the aspirations of the people of peace,in the period of the Olympic Games,the two warring sides to a truce,but the ancient Olympic Games because of the war and ultimately stop.
Olympic renaissance began in 1896,in the Olympic Games founder Dan thanks to the efforts of the Athens in Greece at that time organized the first modern Olympic Games,14 countries from the 245 athletes.Since then,the participating athletes,participating countries and the increasing competition in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney,Australia,from 199 countries and more than 10,000 athletes participating.Become the world's biggest gathering,the Olympic Games,the "faster,higher,stronger" spirit of the modern life of the spirit of the pursuit of happiness.
In the first winter sports added to the 1908 Olympic Games,was figure skating movement.Ice hockey joined the project since 1920.In 1924,the first Winter Olympics in France,held separate investigation Minisi.Since 1994,and not for the Olympic Summer Games held the same year,the current Olympic Games every two years,and the Summer Olympic Games Olympic alternate.
