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By: Robert D. Thomson

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

The original Olympic Games were first recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and were famous until AD 393. Interest in revitalising the Olympic Games proper was first shown by the Greek poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem "Dialogue of the departed" in 1833.[4] Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the renovation of the Panathinaiko arena for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. This was noted in journalists and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have lately been revived near Athens".

The International Olympic group was founded in 1894 on the scheme of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, 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 universal. With the improvement of satellite infrastructure 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 future games in Beijing are delibrate to comprise 302 events in 28 sports. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were participant in 84 events in 7 sports. Through 2010, the Olympic Games will have been hosted by 41 conurbation in 22 countries. The forthcoming 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing, and the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver. The numeral in parentheses following the city/country denotes how many times that city/country had then hosted the game.

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