General Knowledge about Olympic Games

General Knowledge about Olympic Games

On 6 April 1896 at Athens, King George I of Greece opened the Ist Olympic Games of modern times. This time, 14 nationalities participated in 43 events. A total of 241 athletes (all male) participated.

The Motto of the Olympic Games is Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).

The Olympic Anthem . The Olympic hymn was written by the Greek national poet, Costis Palamas, with music composed  by Spiros Samaras and was first sung at the 1896 Games. It was during the 1958 Olympic  Games in Tokyo that the IOC adopted this hymn as the official Olympic anthem.

Detail of Olympic Games Years

1896 Olympic Games at Athens

1900 Olympic Games at Paris

1904 Olympic Games at St. Louis

1908 Olympic Games at London

1912 Olympic Games at Stockholm

1916 Olympic Games – Not held

1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp

1924 Olympic Games at Paris

1928 Olympic Games at Amsterdam

1932 Olympic Games at Los Angeles

1936 Olympic Games at Berlin

1940 Olympic Games – Not held

1944 Olympic Games – Not held

1948 Olympic Games at London

1952 Olympic Games at Helsinki

1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne

1960 Olympic Games at Rome

1964 Olympic Games at Tokyo

1968 Olympic Games at Mexico

1972 Olympic Games at Munich

1976 Olympic Games at Montreal

1980 Olympic Games at Moscow

1984 Olympic Games at Los Angeles

1988 Olympic Games at Seoul

1992 Olympic Games at Barcelona

1996 Olympic Games at Atlanta

2000 Olympic Games at Sydney

2004 Olympic Games at Athens

2008 Olympic Games at China

2012 Olympic Games at London

2014 Olympic Games at Sochi

2016 Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro

2018 Olympic Games at Pyeongchang

2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo

2022 Olympic Games at Beijing

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