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Thursday, June 05, 2008
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Olympics Games
5 June 2008
The 1st Olympics Games was held in Athens, Greece. The 1st olympics games started in the year...1896. In the 1st olympics games, the Greek government had difficulty in throwing out fund to construct stadium. Luckily, there was a wealthy Greek architect threw out its money for construction. This enabled the very first olympics games to be held.
In the first olympics games, there was not much events..e.g. cycling, target shooting, tennis, marathon etc.
From then on, olympics games was hels every four years.
Olympics Games was held in many places after 1896...
1900 --> Paris
1904 --> St. Louis
1906 --> Athens
1908 --> London
1912 --> Stockholm
But do you know that in 1916..there was NO Olympics games?
Why?
Do you know that in 1940, 1944..there was also No Olympics games?
Why?
Until today, this year...there were about 27 Olympics held in different countries..
this year, the Olympics were be held in Beijing, China--28th Olympics Games--
