The History of the Olympic Games

In Room 5 we had to do some research on the Olympics. We had to get information about the history of the Olympics. Here is what I found out about the history of the Olympics.

The History of the Olympic Games

The Olympic Games originated in Greece as many as 3,000 years ago.  The Olympic Games were firstly a part of a religious  festival in Greece. In the first Olympic Games only men could compete in them and married women could not watch the Olympics. The Olympics would only go for a few days like 1 to 4 days. After a long time the Olympics were banned because the Emperor Theodosius saw the Olympics games, which represented the Greek God Zeus, as an offense to Emperor Theodosius’s Christian religion.  

The Olympics came back in 1894. The man named Baron  Pierre De Coubertin was the man who was responsible for reviving the Games.  Baron Pierre De Coubertin was from France.  The first modern Olympic Games came in 1896 two years after Baron Pierre De Coubertin wanted the Olympics to come back.

Every four years the Olympics are held in a different place like in 2020 in Tokyo.  The 2024 Olympic are going to be held in Los Angeles and so on.  Most countries compete in the Olympics, some don’t go but they are welcome to come and play at the Olympics. This year (2016) the Olympics were held in Rio De Janeiro.