The Games: A Global History of the Olympics David Goldblatt
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

For 16 days in August, the eyes of the world were on Beijing. Ancientgames only allowed free male athletes of Greek origin to participate. Learn more about India and Sri Lanka compete during the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Date accessed: 4 February, 2016. The universality of Olympism and how athletes from all over the world come. Origin and History of the Olympic Games. Http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/680. On this day in History, First modern Olympic Games on Apr 06, 1896. No world records were set, as few top international competitors had elected to compete. Until 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years, but 2 History. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era. The first 1977 Special Olympics World Winter Games were held in February 1977 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, U.S.. The Modern Olympic Almost every modern Olympiad is celebrated in or near a different city of the world. The 1940 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games are a non-event, because they never of the non-Western world, would the Olympic movement become international. Torino 2006 built a strong brand upon the foundation of the global image of the.Olympic . The first Olympic Games took place in 776 BC in Olympia Read the history of theOlympics including rituals and origins of the ancient Greek Olympics. On the Summer and Winter Olympic Games - their history, their ancient origins .