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Do you like to swim, Tyson? The Olympics are really fun to watch! We're glad you liked this Wonder, Uniwing! They really are! It's awesome to watch so many athletes from around the world compete in the Olympics. Did you watch the Winter Olympics, Evan? Hi, logan! The nine sports at the first modern Olympic games in were athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis, weightlifting, and wrestling.
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Try It Out Are you ready to play? Be sure to explore the following activities with a friend or family member: Can you name all of the sports that were contested at the Olympic Games in Brazil during the summer of ? Some demonstration sports eventually were included as full-medal events. The ethos of English public schools greatly influenced Pierre de Coubertin. The public schools had a deep involvement in the development of many team sports including all British codes of football as well as cricket and hockey.
The English public schools of the second half of the 19th century had a major influence on many sports. The schools contributed to the rules and influenced the governing bodies of those sports out of all proportion to their size.
They subscribed to the Ancient Greek and Roman belief that sport formed an important part of education, an attitude summed up in the saying: mens sana in corpore sano — a sound mind in a healthy body. In this ethos, taking part has more importance than winning, because society expected gentlemen to become all-rounders and not the best at everything. Class prejudice against "trade" reinforced this attitude. The house of the parents of a typical public schoolboy would have a tradesman 's entrance, because tradesmen did not rank as the social equals of gentlemen.
Apart from class considerations there was the typically English concept of "fairness," in which practicing or training was considered as tantamount to cheating; it meant that you considered it more important to win than to take part.
Those who practiced a sport professionally were considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practiced it merely as a "hobby. In Coubertin's vision, athletes should be gentlemen. Initially, only amateurs were considered such; professional athletes were not allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. A short-lived exception was made for professional fencing instructors.
He was restored as champion on compassionate grounds by the IOC in Swiss and Austrian skiers boycotted the Winter Olympics in support of their skiing teachers, who were not allowed to compete because they earned money with their sport and were considered professionals.
It gradually became clear to many that the amateurism rules had become outdated, not least because the self-financed amateurs of Western countries often were no match for the state-sponsored "full-time amateurs" of Eastern bloc countries.
In the s, after Brundage left, amateurism requirements were dropped from the Olympic Charter, leaving decisions on professional participation to the international federation for each sport. This switch was perhaps best exemplified by the American Dream Team, composed of well-paid NBA stars, which won the Olympic gold medal in basketball in As of , the only sport in which no professionals compete is boxing though even this requires a definition of amateurism based on fight rules rather than on payment, as some boxers receive cash prizes from their National Olympic Committees ; in men's football soccer , the number of players over 23 years of age is limited to three per team.
Advertisement regulations are still very strict, at least on the actual playing field, although "Official Olympic Sponsors" are common. Athletes are only allowed to have the names of clothing and equipment manufacturers on their outfits. The sizes of these markings are limited. The athletes or teams who place first, second, or third in each event receive medals. The winners receive "gold medals".
Though they were solid gold until , they are now made of gilded silver. The runners-up receive silver medals, and the third-place athletes bronze medals. In some events contested by a single-elimination tournament most notably boxing , third place might not be determined, in which case both semi-final losers receive bronze medals.
The practice of awarding medals to the top three competitors was introduced in ; at the Olympics only the first two received a medal, silver and bronze, while various prizes were awarded in However, the Olympics also awarded silver trophies for first place, which makes Athens the first games that awarded the three medals only. In addition, from onward athletes placing fourth, fifth and sixth have received certificates which became officially known as "victory diplomas;" since the medal winners have received these also, and in victory diplomas for seventh- and eighth-place finishers were added, presumably to ensure that all losing quarter-finalists in events using single-elimination formats would receive diplomas, thus obviating the need for consolation or officially, "classification" matches to determine fifth through eighth places though interestingly these latter are still contested in many elimination events anyway.
Certificates were awarded also at the Olympics, but there they were awarded in addition to the medals to first and second place. Commemorative medals and diplomas — which differ in design from those referred to above — are also made available to participants finishing lower than third and eighth respectively. At the Summer Olympics in Athens, the first three were given wreaths as well as their medals. Because the Olympics are held only once every four years, the public and athletes often consider them as more important and valuable than world championships and other international tournaments, which are often held annually.
Many athletes have become celebrities or heroes in their own country, or even world-wide, after becoming Olympic champions. The diversity of the sports, and the great differences between the Olympic Games in and today make it difficult to decide which athlete is the most successful Olympic athlete of all time.
This is further complicated since the IOC no longer recognises the Intercalated Games which it originally organised. When measuring by the number of titles won at the Modern Olympic Games, the following athletes may be considered the most successful. The IOC does not publish lists of medals per country, but the media often does.
A comparison between countries would be unfair to countries with fewer inhabitants, so some have made calculations of medals per number of inhabitants, such as [1] for the Olympics and [2] for a few more. A problem here is that for a very small country, gaining just one medal could mean the difference between the very top and the very bottom of the list a point illustrated by the Bahamas ' per capita number one position in On the other hand, a large country may not be able to send a number of athletes that is proportional to its size because a limit is set for the number of participants per country for a specific sport.
A comparison of the total number of medals over time is further complicated by the fact that the number of times that countries have participated is not equal, and that many countries have gained and lost territories where medal-winning athletes come from. A case in point is the USSR , which not only participated relatively rarely 18 times, versus 45 times for the UK , but also ceased to exist in Also, one would have to use population statistics at the time.
The IOC medal tally chart is based on the number of gold medals per country. Where states are equal, the number of silver medals and then bronze medals are counted to determine rankings. Since , the only countries that have appeared in the top 10 medal tallies for summer Olympics have been the Russian Federation , United States , China , France , Germany , Australia and Italy.
By , the Olympic Games were hosted by 44 cities in 23 countries. It does list the "Intercalated Games" of , but it is not included in the counts as the IOC no longer considers them to be official Olympic Games. Olympics Wiki Explore. Olympic Games. Olympics Wiki. Community Portal About Policy. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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