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If you mean the ancient Olympic games in Rome or Italy where ever it was then it is because they would compete naked to make sure they weren't a girl( because back then girls weren't allowed to compete in Olympic games) and it was also in the same place unlike nowadays.
14 nations boycotted the games.
That is when they switched having the summer and winter games in the same year and they chose to have one or the other every two years. So, the winter games were played two years apart to get on the new rotation.
what kinds of events make up theOlympic games, and what athletics compete in them?
* The ancient Olympic Games were always held in Olympia, Greece. * The modern Olympic Games were first held in Athens in 1896, and were held there again in 1906, as the first of a second series of Olympic Games, the intercalated games, to be held in Anthens every four years in between the games being organised by cities around the globe. Though Athens 1906 had a big influence on the Olympic movement, the series didn't continue, making 1906 a bit of an exception, usually ignored in lists about the Olympic Games. * Paris was the first city to host the Olympic Games twice, hosting them in 1900 and again in 1924. (Ignoring the intercalated games.) * Counting the intercalated games, Athens was the first city to host the modern games trice: 1896, 1906, 2004.