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Actually I think the rings are more important in promoting the Olympic games than at the games themselves, but the five interlocking rings represent the union of the five main regions of the world by the meeting of their athletes.
Then the games were more dangerouse than now
The main focus of the games will be a new Olympic Park in Stratford in the east of London.The Games also make use of many other venues in and arond the capital.
To honor the Greek god Zeus
To honor the Greek god Zeus
The Olympic Games 271 Activities and then 26 main sports Basketball,Track,Hockey,Figure skating,Speed skating,Long jump,etc...
They did direct Hellenic Games (Separated into four sections: Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and Istamian Games). The main events in each of the games included: Chariot Racing, Wrestling, Pankration (mix of wrestling and boxing, few rules), Stadion and other foot races.
Just one - the Stadion, a foot race of about 200 metres.
The first Olympic games were held in Greece. The Greeks believed that the 12 main deities lived on Mount Olympus. So they named the games in honor of their Gods. That name has filtered into modern history and is the name for the Winter and Summer Olympic games In addition, there is a town on the Peleponnese named Olympia. It was the site of the original olympic games held in the 776 B.C.E. A large part of the stadium and hippodrome are is still intact and may be visited. Olympia is also the site of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The statue is long gone but part of the temple remains.
New York, Paris, London. There may have been more but these were the main 3.