The history of sport

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The history of sport

• Olympic Games
• The city of Olympia
• The founder
• Winter Olympic games
• Paralympia
• Modern kinds of Olympic games
• Motto of Olympic Games

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Olympic Games
The history of sport started in Ancient Greece
with Olympic Games. The first Olympic games were
held in 776 BC. During these games all the wars
had to be stopped and the yesterday's enemies
peacefully competed for the right to be called
the winner.
The most popular kind of sports is chariot racing
The poster of the first Olympic games
Running is the most ancient kind of sports.
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The City of Olympia
The native land of Olympic games is considered
to be the City of Olympia. Every fourth year for
five days all Greek athletes gathered here.
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The founder
of the modern Olympics is
Pierre de Coubertin
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Winter Olympic games
White Olympics take place in winter. XX winter
Olympic games were held in Turino, the capital of
the Italian region Pimento , in February,2006.
There are different competitions in White
Olympics figure skating, skiing, freestyle,
mountain skiing, hockey and many others.
Shooting
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Hockey
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Paralympics
Paralympics are the games for disabled people.

The Russian Ildar Pomykalov has won a bronze
medal in paralympia marathon competition
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Modern Olympic games
Opening ceremony of XX winter Olympic games
Now the Olympic games include many sports-
swimming, diving, running, sport walking and
many, many others.
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They are the champions
The Olympic champion of Beijing Islanbeck Albiyev
won Olympic gold medal in Gree?-Roman wrestling
The captain of Russian boxing team Andrey Balanov
Russian gymnasts became the winners of Olympiad
in group exercises.
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Motto of Olympic Games
The main idea of Olympic games means friendship
and cooperation among the people of the world.
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Love sports!!!
The next winter Olympiad will be held in 2010 in
Vancouver (Canada) and in 2014 in Sochi (Russia).
We wish our sportsmen great success and victory.
The Olympic emblem is five interlinked rings
blue, yellow, black, green and red. The Olympic
movement proves, that real peace can be achieved
only through sport