Transcript Olympic games connecting people

The Symbols of The Olympic
and Paralympic games
Coordonated by:
Mirianici Lavinia
Bohm Cristina
Ivascu Simona
Iosa Alina
Liceul Teoretic
“Grigore Moisil”
Timisoara
INDEX
•The history of the
ancient olymic games
•The more recent
history of olympic
games
•The symbols of the
olympic games
•The meaning of the
The Story of the Olympic Games
A Journey to Ancient Greece
• The ancient Olympic
Games were primarily a
part of a religious
festival in honor of
Zeus, the father of
the Greek gods and
goddesses.
The festival and the games
were held in Olympia, a rural
sanctuary site in the western
• No one is sure how the
Olympic Games really
began, but the first
recorded event took
place in Olympia about
3000 years ago.
Athletic competition
became so important to
the Greeks that the
Olympic festivals were a
peaceful influence on
the warlike city-states.
! Only free men and boys
from Greece were allowed
to compete in the
ancient Greece Olympic
Games.
were
Women
forbidden, on
penalty of
death, even to
see
the
Games.
• At first,
the Games
were strictly for Greek citizens.
Eventually, however, athletes from all over the
Roman Empire were permitted to participate.
• For the first thirteen years it was said
that the stade, which is a 200 ft. foot
race, was the only real event of these
games and after that they started to add
many more events.
But over the years, new sports were
added to the Games. The
hoplitodrome, for instance, was a
footrace the athletes ran wearing full
armor.
• The pentathlon, in which the
athletes competed in five events
(jumping, javelin, sprint,
discus, and wrestling).
• After the Roman
Empire conquered
Greece the Games
continued, but their
standards and quality
declined.
In A.D. 393, Emperor Theodosius I, a
Christian, called for a ban on all
“pagan” festivals, ending the ancient
Olympic tradition after nearly 12
centuries.
REVIVAL OF THE OLYMPIC
TRADITION
It would be another 1,500 years before
the Games would rise again, largely
thanks to the efforts of Baron Pierre de
Coubertin of France.
Coubertin proposed the idea of
reviving the Olympics as an
international athletic competition
held every four years.
Two years later, he got the approval he needed to found the
International Olympic Committee (IOC), which would become
the governing body of the modern Olympic Games.
The first modern Olympics were
held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
In the opening ceremony, King
Georgios I and a crowd of 60,000
spectators welcomed 280
participants from 13 nations (all
male), who would compete in 43
events.
The olympic
rings
Created by Pierre de Coubertin in
1914, the Olympic flag contains five
interconnected rings on a white
background.
The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are
interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from
these international competitions.
The meaning of the Olympic rings colors is not of any
important significance, but the five colors of the Olympic
rings has at least one color of every nation’s flag in it.
Educational Values
Values of Olympism:
Pursuit of excellence (blue)
Joy of effort (black)
Fair play (red)
Respect for others (yellow)
Balance between body, will and mind (green)
The olympic torch
The tradition of lighting an Olympic Flame comes
from the ancient Greeks. During the Ancient
Olympic Games, a sacred flame was lit from the
sun’
’s rays at Olympia, and stayed lit until the
Games were completed.
It was first introduced into our Modern Olympics
at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.
Since then, the flame has come to symbolize
"the light of spirit, knowledge, and life"
The way of the olympic torch
• The flame is lit in an ancient ritual in Olympia,
Greece, the site of the first Olympic Games, then is
carried up mountains and across rivers, down city
streets, over footbridges and through national parks.
They carried it on canoes, horse-drawn carriages,
cross-country skis, kayaks, mountain bikes and tractors.
The motto
A motto is a phrase which sums up a
life philosophy or a code of conduct
to follow.
The Olympic motto is made up of
three Latin words :
These words mean Faster - Higher - Stronger.
It was the Dominican priest Henri Didon who first
expressed the words in the opening ceremony of a school
sports event in 1881.
Pierre de Coubertin, who was present
that day, adopted them as the Olympic
motto.
It expresses the aspirations of the Olympic Movement
not only in its athletic and technical sense but also from
a moral and educational perspective.
The olympic Creed
To better understand the motto, we can
compare it with the Olympic creed :
The most important thing in life is
not the triumph, but the fight;
the essential thing is not to have won,
but to have fought well
Paralympics Games
The Paralympic Games is a major
international multi-sport event, involving athletes with
a range of physical disabilities, including impaired
muscle power.
Olympic-style games for athletes
with a disability were organised
for the first time in Rome in 1960.
In Toronto in 1976, other
disability groups were added and
the idea of merging together
different disability groups for
international sports competitions
was born.
The symbol of Paralympics
The Current Paralympic Symbol consists of
three elements in red,blue and green , the
three colours that are most widely
represented in national flags around the world.
The symbol also reflects
the Paralympic Motto:
“Spirit in Motion”
-representing the strong will of
every Paralympian.
The Paralympic Symbol also
emphasizes the fact that
Paralympic athletes are
constantly inspiring and
exciting the world with their
performances: always moving
forward and never giving up.
The Paralympic logo was designed to reflect the four core
values of the Paralympics:
courage, determination, inspiration and equality.