Here is all you need to know about the theme, history, significance and quotes of International Olympic Day 2022. Every year International Olympic Day is observed on June 23. The day is celebrated for sports and health, where people associated with sports come together to promote and practice mass sports.
June 23 is celebrated as International Olympic Day to commemorate the birth of the Olympic Games. Olympic Day is all about celebrating sports, health and international harmony. It symbolises the making of a better world through sports. The Ancient Olympic Games had a religious significance in Ancient Greece.
The International Olympic Day has a theme every year. For 2022, the theme is 'Together for a peaceful world'. This year's theme celebrates the power of sporting activities to unite people beyond their faith, ethnicity, and region. The theme brings out the significance of sports as a means of solidarity and peace.
The Olympic symbol (the Olympic rings) expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. But watch out, it is wrong to say that each of the colours corresponds to a certain continent!
The ancient Greeks loved competition of all sorts. Each year, the various city-states of Greece sent athletes to festivals of games, which were held to honor the gods. The most important and prestigious were the games held at Olympia to honor Zeus, the king of the gods.
The first known Olympics were held in the summer of 776 B.C. at Olympia, a site in southern Greece where people went to worship their gods. In fact, the Olympics were created in honor of ancient Greece's most famous god: Zeus, king of the gods.
The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (“Faster, Higher, Stronger”) was coined by Father Henri Didon, who was a close friend of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It was adopted by the IOC in 1894.
In 1913, Pierre de Coubertin designed one of the world's most famous symbols. The Olympic rings represent the five continents and all nations united by Olympism.
The ancient Olympics were held every four years between August 6 and September 19 during a religious celebration honoring Zeus. The Games were named for their location at Olympia, a sacred site located near the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.
The running race known as stadion or stade is the oldest Olympic Sport in the world. It was the only event at the very first Olympics in 776 BCE and remained the sole event at the Games until 724 BCE. The length of the race was 600 Greek feet, but this was not a standardized unit so stadions often varied in length.
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