The Olympic Games (Greek: Ολυμπιακο? Αγ?νε?; French: Jeux olympiques; English: Olympic Games; Chinese abbreviated as "Olympic Games") are the world's largest comprehensive sports games hosted by the International Olympic Committee. , held every four years and lasting no more than 16 days, is the most influential sports event in the world.
The Olympic Games are divided into the Summer Olympics, the Summer Paralympics, the Winter Olympics, the Winter Paralympics, the Summer Youth Olympics, the Winter Youth Olympics, the World Summer Special Olympics, and the World Winter Special Olympics Sports meeting,.
The Summer Deaflympics and the Winter Deaflympics are composed of ten events. In the Olympic Games, various countries use sports to exchange cultures and compete in sports skills. The purpose is to encourage people to continue to participate in sports.
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Olympic Games logo:
The Olympic Games have a series of unique and distinctive symbolic logos, such as the Olympic logo, motto, Olympic flag, and Songs, emblems, medals, mascots, etc., these symbols have rich cultural meanings and vividly reflect the value orientation and cultural connotation of the Olympic ideal.
The Olympic five-ring logo is composed of five Olympic rings connected in five colors: blue, black, red, yellow and green. The meaning of the five rings is to symbolize the unity of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from all over the world in the Olympic Games with fair, frank competition and a friendly spirit.
The "Olympic Charter" stipulates that the property rights of the Olympic logo, Olympic flag, Olympic motto and Olympic anthem belong exclusively to the International Olympic Committee. The International Olympic Committee may take all appropriate measures to obtain legal protection for the Olympic symbols, flags, mottos and anthems at national and international levels.
The Olympic flag was designed by Coubertin himself in 1913. It is 3 meters long and 2 meters wide. It was raised for the first time at the Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the restoration of the modern Olympic movement. Officially adopted at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. The Olympic flag has three rings of blue, black and red at the top and two rings of yellow and green at the bottom.
The hymn was first sung at the opening ceremony of the first Summer Olympics in 1896, but it was not confirmed as the Olympic anthem at that time. After the 1950s, some people suggested recomposing new songs as a permanent anthem, but several attempts were not satisfactory.
The International Olympic Committee finally decided to use the "Olympic Hymn" ("Hymn of Samaras") as the Olympic anthem at the 55th Olympic Games held in Tokyo in 1958. Its sheet music is stored at the International Olympic Committee headquarters. Since then, this melodious ancient Greek music can be heard at the opening and closing ceremonies of every Olympic Games.
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