summer olympics
tyrone Washington asked:
when did the summer olympics start, they said they were only 29 years of olympics but i remeber seening the olmypics when i was a kid and my dad said he also watch the olympics how come they said this is the 29th olympics
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when did the summer olympics start, they said they were only 29 years of olympics but i remeber seening the olmypics when i was a kid and my dad said he also watch the olympics how come they said this is the 29th olympics
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
It is the 29th Olympics…but remember — they only happen every four years so multiple 29 x 4 and you get the start of the modern Olympics 116 years ago.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:45 am
The olympics have been going on for thousands of years. They say the 29th olympics because because it’s like the 29th year of the modern olympics.
I’m pretty sure that’s why.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Yep, there’s only been 29. They began in 1896.
1896, 1900, 1904 and every 4 years after that for a total of 29.
3 were canceled: 1916 due to WWI, 1940 due to WWII, and 1944 due to WWII
June 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am
you make me lauch read these IOC organizes the modern Olympic Games held in Summer and Winter, every four years. The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee held in Athens, Greece, in 1896; the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Until 1992, both Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year. After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
My friend, first Summer Olympics of the modem era starting in 1896 in Athens, the birth place of the Ancient Olympics.
Good luck