Paris Olympics 2024: People all over the world wait for the Olympic Games. Because the Olympics are not organized every year but after an interval of 4 years. The Olympics are going to be organized this year, about which people are very excited.
Let us tell you that this year the Olympics will be held in Paris, France. The Olympics will be held from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Athletes from all over the world, including India, participate in it. Although the history of the Olympic Games is very ancient. But the modern Olympic Games started in 1896.
Why are the Olympics held every four years? (Why Olympic Games Held Every Four Years)
- The world famous and popular Olympic Games are believed to have started about 3000 years ago in ancient Greece. According to historians, the first Olympic Games were organized in honor of the Greek god Zeus.
- After this, this game held in honor of the god Zeus in Olympia, Greece became very important and it started being held every four years. The ancient Greeks named this four-year period as ‘Olympiad’.
- Olympic Games were held in Olympia in 776 BC. Let us tell you that Olympia was the venue for the Olympic Games in ancient times.
The ancient site of Olympia hosted the games every four years from 776 BC until 393 AD. However, the games stopped after 393 AD. - After this, the Olympic Games did not start until 1894. Then French teacher and historian Pierre de Coubertin took the initiative to revive the Olympic Games and it was because of Pierre that the International Olympic Committee was established. In this way, when the Olympic Games started again in the modern era, the tradition of organizing the games at an interval of four years was continued, just like the ancient Greek site Olympia. Organizing the Olympics every four years even in modern times also shows respect for the ancient origin of the Olympic Games.
- In ancient Olympia, there was a gap of four years between the editions of the games, which was named Olympiad. However, at that time it was used for date determination. Because in the Olympiad, time was calculated rather than years.
- However, today, i.e. in modern times, the cycle of the Olympiad begins on the first day of January of the first year, i.e. January 1, and ends on December 31 of the fourth year. In this way, the tradition of organizing the Olympic Games every four years has been going on since the ancient Olympic Games of Greece and even today the tradition of organizing the games in this way continues.
When did the four-year tradition of Olympics change?
The Olympic Games are held every four years. But there were disruptions due to war and epidemic. Due to the Corona epidemic, the games were held in 5 years instead of 4. At the same time, 3 Olympics had to be canceled due to war. But there is no plan to change the tradition of the Olympic Games permanently.
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