Amazing facts about Olympic history

Amazing facts about Olympic history

Facts about Pheidippides. Pheidippides was a messenger soldier who famously ran a long distance from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens in order to tell the people that the Athenians had, in fact, won.

In the past Olympics There was wrestling, boxing, and running, but did you know there were separate games for women, in some cases that rule violations resulted in physical punishment

The first modern Olympic Games was hosted bye Athens Greece were 14 nations was participated 

In the old age off, Greek Olympics became an integral part of Greek society. Every four years from 776BC to 393AD, thousands of people from all over the Greek world congregated for the competition

Marathon was the first game introduction in Morden, Olympic athlete was covered 40 kilometres in their starting faced off Olympic

The U.S., or more specifically CBS, first televised the Olympics during the 1960 Rome games

There are 3 Awarding given by winning athletes the gold, silver and bronze medals started in the 1904 Olympics

The 1904 St Louis, 1932/1984 LA and Atlanta 1996 games mean that the US has hosted the Olympics more than any other country.

In 1979 the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR, in that result 66 nations boycott the games  of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

The 2016 games saw Rugby on the cards for the first time since 1924.

Priestess of Demeter was the only married woman allowed to watch the ancient games, with any others who were caught being thrown over a cliff

The Olympic torch is lit the old-fashioned way in an ancient ceremony at the temple of Hera, in Greece: Actresses, wearing costumes of Greek priestesses, use a parabolic mirror and sun rays to kindle the torch.

From there, the torch starts its relay to the host city: It is usually carried by runners, but it has traveled on a boat, on an airplane (and the Concorde), on horseback, on the back of a camel, via radio signal, underwater, and in a canoe.