1. A major international event featuring
summer and winter sports, in which
thousands of athletes participate in a
variety of competitions. The Olympic
Games have come to be regarded as the
world’s foremost sports competition
where more than 200 nations participate

2. • The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a
part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus
• The festival and the games were held in
Olympia, a rural sanctuary site in the western
Peloponnesos.
• The ancient Olympic Games began in the
year 776 bC, when Koroibos, a cook from the
nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a
foot race 600 feet long

3. • The Olympic motto is the hendiatris
Citius, Altius, Fortius , which is Latin
for "Swifter, Higher, Stronger"

4. In the Games an ideal opportunity to develop a set of universal principles –
or Values – that could be applied to education and to society as a whole,
as well as to sport itself.
These Values are:
• respect
• Excellence
• friendship
The Paralympic Values are based on the history of the Paralympic Games
and the tradition of fair play and honourable sports competition.
They are:
• courage
• determination
• inspiration
• equality.

5. In ancient Greece, a one-month truce
was called and all fighting stopped during
the
Games. The modern Olympics were
cancelled three times (1916, 1940, 1944)
because of World War I and World War II.

6. • Five Rings
The Olympic symbol (five interlocked rings)
represents the union of the five original major
continents (Africa, America, Asia, Australia and
Europe) and the meeting of the athletes from
throughout the world at the Olympic Games. The
five colors of the rings from left to right are blue,
black and red across the top and yellow and
green along the bottom.

7. • Is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and
gymnastics, consisting of swimmers (either
solos, duets, trios, or teams) performing a
synchronized routine of elaborate moves in
the water, accompanied by music.
Synchronized swimming demands advanced
water skills, and requires great strength,
endurance, flexibility, grace, artistry and
precise timing, as well as exceptional breath
control when upside down underwater

8. • The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport
event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this
includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations,
blindness, and cerebral palsy
• The Paralympics have grown from a small gathering of British
World War II veterans in 1948 to become one of the largest
international sport events by the early 21st century
• The present formal explanation for the name "Paralympic" is
that it derives from the Greek preposition
παρά, pará ("beside" or "alongside") and thus refers to a
competition held in parallel with the Olympic Games. The
Summer Games of 1988 held in Seoul was the first time the
term "Paralympic" came into official use.

9. • The official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympic and
Paralympic Games were unveiled on 19 May 2010;[135] this
marks the second time (afterVancouver) that both Olympic
and Paralympic mascots were unveiled at the same time
• They are named Wenlock, after the Shropshire town of
Much Wenlock, which held
a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Mandeville,
after Stoke Mandeville, a village in Buckinghamshire where
a forerunner to the Paralympic Games were first held

10. • The 2012 Summer Olympic programme features 26 sports and a total of
39 disciplines. The 2012 Paralympic Games programme has 20 sports and
21 disciplines. For the first time, women's boxing is included in the
programme, with 40 athletes competing in five different weight classes.
[192]
There is a special dispensation to allow the various shooting events to
go ahead, which would otherwise be illegal under UK gun law
• Even though formal demonstration sports were eliminated following the
1992 Summer Olympics,[196] special tournaments for non-Olympic sports
can be run during the games, such as the Wushu tournament at the 2008
Summer Olympics.[197] There have been campaigns to run
Twenty20 cricket,[197] and Netball[198] tournaments parallel with the 2012
games, but neither campaign was successful.