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History of the Olympic Games
The Olympia is noted to be the first town that the Olympic Games started in the world. It is in the western site of the said Peloponnese which is denoted in the Greeks as the mythology or an island; this means that the first Olympic was done on an island, and the island was called Pelops (Billings, Angelini & Duke, 2010). Forcing sanctuaries, votive structures, showy holy places and old donning offices were consolidated in a site of novel regular and magical excellence. The island of Olympia was one of the places that people liked to go and make fun and also to take part in religious functions. This city was noted in history to have existed and started all this functions by B.C. All the activity in the Olympia city was managed or controlled by the Zeus; the leader of the place (Girginov, 2010). The city was parallel to the sanctuary of Hera; this denotes that the Olympia was also a religious related game.
The Olympic Games were nearly interfaced to the religious celebrations of the religion of Zeus, yet were not an essential piece of a ceremony. Undoubtedly, they had a common character and planned to demonstrate the physical qualities and development of the exhibitions fulfilled by youngsters, and in addition empowering great relations between the urban communities of Greece (Uchacz, 2010). Therefore, it is worth to denote that the Olympics Games has mush of its origin from religious facts. It was a religious games and not social or political. Just after several Olympiads had taken place, now come other sports. The first lot of sports were races. The first race was the 400 meters relay and was later followed by 1700 and 6000 meter races. The pentathlon that consisted of several occasions was also on board in 700 BC (Uchacz, 2010). This three sports are noted to hold the test of time and considered as the pioneers of Olympics games. Just before, the 700 BC, there was also chariot racing, this started in 600 BC to 650 B.C. Boxing amid other sports also come in and were incportated in the occasion. Support of the first Olympics depended on the support they got from the population of then Greece nationals, all the sports were male dominated as the females were not allowed to participate in such games (Girginov, 2010). The old Olympics has led to the born current Olympics.
It is clear that the current form of the Games has changed to the better. There are more than 50 games being undertaken in an occasion of one Olympics (Wallechinsky & Loucky, 2014). In order to understand the fundamentals of the occasion, it is better to denote that the occasion is also being undertaken by women as compared to the past whereby women or ladies did not take part not because they were not allowed but because the religion of the time as well as the nature of the sports could not allow that to happen (Wallechinsky & Loucky, 2014). Sports such as football, hockey, and soccer amid other have been embedded in Olympics games.
The current form of sports that is build and supported by the game has various facets on board, today the game is not only played for religious functions but because of small other issues. First, the game is played to support peace initiatives (Uchacz, 2010). For example, in Africa, this sport has taken place in order to bring peace amid the people, though no Olympics has ever taken place in Africa. With the use of the qualification stage of the game peace and harmony among the people in natured (Uchacz, 2010). The value of the game also changed over years. Today, Olympics is noted played to grown and individual alone but also the country, the sports peso comes from (Uchacz, 2010).
Via a competitive bidding in order to be given a chance to host the games, it is different from the past whereby it was in Olympia. More than 20 games have taken place in most big cities around the world, but the best of all was the one held in London. As compared to the past Olympics that people played as a community today, it a money making venture. Individual’s skills of the games have changed to personal and material dependency of the games (Girginov, 2010). It true that the modern day sports has changed to the better and the world is supporting the game as compared to the old days whereby the men in Greece marked and supported the occasion. Today, the game is not only supported by Greece and its people but the world at large.
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