The Olympic Games is an international multi-sport occasion subdivided into summer and winter honorable events. The summer and coldness games are each detained every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, they were together held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated by a two year slit.



The unique Olympic Games were first recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and were celebrated until AD 393. Interest in reviving the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his verse "Dialogue of the departed" in 1833.[4] Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first contemporary international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko arena for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. This was renowed in newspapers and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have recently been revived near Athens".

The International Olympic team was founded in 1894 on the proposal of a French nobleman, Pierre Fr'dy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. Involvement in the Olympic Games has increased to include athlete from nearly all nations wide-reaching. With the improvement of satellite communications and global telecasts of the events, the Olympics are always gaining followers. The most modern Summer Olympics were the 2004 Games in Athens and the most recent Winter Olympics were the 2006 Games in Turin. The imminent games in Beijing are intended to comprise 302 events in 28 sports. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were competed in 84 events in 7 sports. By 2010, the Olympic Games will have been hosted by 41 cities in 22 countries. The upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing, and the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver. The numeral in parentheses subsequent the city/country denotes how many times that city/country had then hosted the game.