Kinds of sports

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The first Olympic games took place in 776 before Christy, and since then they are held every four years. On that time the Olympic games werent only athletic competitions, but religious ones.

The Legends of the Olympic games

The first legend The legend about Pelopse This legend is connected with Enomaya.

The second legend Legend of Geracl Gerakl has founded the Olympic Games after the cleaning of the stockyard of Avgiy.

The third legend Zeus organized some games on the grave of his father.

At the beginning of the Games people honored their Gods by lighting the fire.

Now Olympic games are an international atheletic competitions, which take place every four years. They are divided into summer and winter games.

The symbol of the Olympic Games are 5 rings, which were invented by Pier De Coubertin.

Each game has its talismans. Here you can see some of them.

Winter Olympic Games

Winter Olympic Games: biathlon, tobogan, curling, ice hockey, skating, skiing, figure skating, etc.

Sochi 2014 The 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be the first time that the Russian Federation will have hosted the Winter Games; the Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow

The Sochi Olympic Park will be built along the Black Sea coast in the Imeretinskaya Valley, where all the ice venues such as the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Maly Ice Palace, the Olympic Oval, the Sochi Olympic Skating Centre, the Olympic Curling Centre, the Central Stadium, the Main Olympic Village and the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre, will be built anew for the 2014 Games.

The Park will ensure a very compact concept with an average distance of 6km between the Olympic Village and the other coastal venues.

Summer Olympic Games

The Olympic Bear – the symbol of the Olympic games in 1980

The Olympic torch – is the obliged element of the Olympic Games.

At the performance of the champions of light athletics is taken into account movement, mistakes aren't admitted.

Basketball has been played by people of different nationalities and countries.

The female racing is included in the program of the Summer Olympic games.

Prizewinners are rewarded by gold, silver and bronze medals.

A sport or activity of skiing down a very long platform and jumping off at the end to see how far you can travel through the air

An activity or sport of moving very fast down a hill covered with snow Sitting in a boat

An activity of jumping off a high bridge

An extreme sport or activity of jumping out of a plane with a wide board on your feet