IMPORTANT POINT ON OLYMPIC GAMES

• The origin of the ancient Olympic Games in Greek, the games were first held in honour of the Greek god, Zeus in 776
• Olypic Symbol comprises five rings or circles, each ring is of different color i.e. blue, yellow, black, green and red. America(red),Asia(yellow),Africa(black),Europe(blue), Australia(green)
• Olympic Flag: olympic flag created in 1913 at the suggestion of Pierre de Coubertin, was inaugurated in Paris in June 1914 but it was raised over an olympic stadium for the first time at the Antwerp Games(Belgium) in 1920.
• Olympic Flame: It was at the Amsterdam Games 1928 that for the first time an Olympic flame was ceremonially lighted and burned in a giant torch at the entrance of the stadium.The modern version of the flame was adopted in 1936 in the Berlin Games.
• Olympic motto: 'Citius-Altius-Fortius'(faster, higher, stronger)
• The modern Olympic games started in Athens, the capital of Greece 1896
• Olympic games are organised after every four years
• The Head Office of International Olympic Committee is in Lusane(Switzerland)
• Participation of women in the olympic games started in the second olympic game in 1900
• First Indian player who participated in the olympic games was an Anglo Indian named Norman Prichard who took part in the Second Olympic Games in 1900 and won two silver medals in Athletics
• Marrie Lila Ro is 1st Indian woman participant in the Olympic games.
• The maximum no. of medal winner sports woman is Laris Lavyanina
• The maximum no. of gold medal winner sports man Michael Phelps of USA
• Which Country has hosted maximum no. of olympic games United States (total eight times) followed by France
• London become first city to have hosted three olympic games
• Next Summer Olympic 2016 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
• 2018 Winter Olympic- Pyeongchang in South Korea
• 2022 Winter Olympic- Beijing in China
• 2020 Summer Olympic-Tokyo in Japan