Olympics’ Eulogy for Pandemic
Tokyo
Olympics did start and concluded uniquely, unlike others, especially with the
odd-numbered year. Every tussle and effort to organize this Tokyo Olympics amid
the pandemic was all worth it. The pandemic showed up in everyone's paths,
without notice to dim their hopes and to delay the sportsman spirit of Tokyo
2020, but it was all recouped with the power puffed pack of athletes,
handpicked from every nook and corner of the world. This would be the one and
only Olympics that kept every sports lover on the edge of their chairs, with
the inability to predict “Whether the
Olympics will be canceled at the last minute?” “Which country would fight
courageously through this pandemic to achieve a greater number of gold medals?”.
Indians witnessed quality play from its well-trained athletic team when they
grabbed 26 medals (including Paralympics). The Olympics injected a moral lesson
to people that "no matter what happens never stop fighting, even if hard
times get in your way”.
HISTORY OF OLYMPICS
The inaugural ancient Olympics were held in Olympia, a village located on Greece's Peloponnese Peninsula. It began as an international sports festival and staged every fourth year, the games ran for 293 consecutive Olympiads, starting in 776 BCE and running until about 393 CE. The revival of Olympic games took place when Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896.
The Olympics include the Summer games, Winter games, and Paralympic Games. Each type of games is held every four years, with the winter and summer games held two years apart from each other.
The Paralympics developed after Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition for British World war II veterans with spinal cord injuries in England in 1948. A follow-up competition took place in 1952, with athletes from the Netherlands joining the British competitors. In 1960 the first quadrennial Olympic-style Games for disabled athletes were held in Rome; the quadrennial Winter Games were added in 1976, in Sweden.
INDIA AND THE OLYMPICS
India first participated in the Olympics in 1900 in Pairs. The country was represented by Norman Pritchard, an Anglo Indian who has holidaying in Paris during that time. he won two medals both silver-in athletics and India became the first Asian nation to win an Olympic medal. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.
The Olympic Rings
The rings are five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white field, known as the "Olympic rings". The symbol was originally created in 1913 by Coubertin. He appears to have intended the rings to represent the five continents: Europe, Africa, America, and Oceania.
International Olympic Day is celebrated on 23rd June
International Olympic Committee (IOC) has named Brisbane, Australia as the preferred bidder to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Australia has hosted the Olympic Games twice previously, Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000.
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