The United States began celebrating Olympic Day in 2009, and it has continued to grow each year. In 2017, more than 560,000 individuals participated in 2,400 Olympic Day celebrations all across.

To highlight the importance of sports and games in our lives, International Olympic Day (or World Olympic Day) is observed across the world on June 23 every year. Doctor Gruss, a Czech IOC member, presented the idea of a World Olympic Day in 1947. A year later, the day was observed to mark the birth of the modern Olympic Games.

The 37-year-old Chinese weightlifter became the oldest man to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport on Saturday after a tense finish in the men’s 81-kilogram category. Wearing his.

More than 2,000 athletes from 22 nations competed in 100 events. The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm drew more than 2,500 competitors from 28 countries and featured the first women's swimming events.

Conventionally, the ancient Olympic games began in 776 B.C.E., based on records of stade-length races. The victor of this first Olympic game was Koroibos of Elis, in Southern Greece. However, because the Olympics originated during an era that is not well-documented, the actual date of the first Olympics is disputed.

English. Maxwell Whiteman reacts to the BME Pain Olympics. The BME Pain Olympics is a competition run by Body Modification Ezine (BME) to find the person who had the highest tolerance for pain. Participants engage in violent displays of body modification, genitalia multilation and bodily mutilations.

Mahesh Bhupathi has said that Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna's duo was definitely under-prepared at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Mahesh Bhupathi has said that Leander Paes.

Margaret Ives Abbott (June 15, 1878 – June 10, 1955) was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics . Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, in 1878, Abbott moved with her family to Chicago in 1884. She joined the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton.

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The word "together" after a hyphen has been added to the earlier motto, which was made up of three Latin words -- Citius, Altius, Fortius, translating to "Faster Higher Stronger" in English. The proposal to include the word together was made by IOC President Thomas Bach, which was endorsed by the body's Executive Board (EB) in April.

The International Olympic Committee, a nongovernmental organization based in Switzerland that’s independent of any one nation, was founded in 1894. It’s a group of officials who supervise and.