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History of Olympic Games
Olympic Games has the major classification as - 1. Ancient Olympic Games 2. Modern Olympic Games or Olympics.

Ancient Olympic Games: The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honour of Zeus (the sky and thunder god ), and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 394 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.

Modern Olympic Games: Various uses of the term "Olympic" to describe athletic events in the modern era have been documented since the 17th century.

In 1894, Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Coubertin developed his ideas with the aim of establishing internationally rotating Olympic Games that would occur every four years. He presented these ideas during the first Olympic Congress of the newly created International Olympic Committee. On the last day of the Congress, it was decided that the first Olympic Games to come under the auspices of the IOC would take place in Athens in 1896. The 1896 Summer Olympics brought together 14 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events.

The second Olympics was held in Paris. The Games in Paris did not have a stadium, but were notable for being the first time women took part in the Games.

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games. The IOC desired to expand this list of sports to encompass other winter activities. At the 1921 Olympic Congress, it was decided to hold a winter version of the Olympic Games. The first Winter Olympic Games held in 1924 in France. The IOC mandated that the Winter Games be celebrated every four years on the same year as their summer counterpart. This tradition was upheld until the 1992 Games in France; after that, beginning with the 1994 Games, the Winter Olympics were held every four years, two years after each Summer Olympics.

Paralympic Games For the 1960 Olympic Games (Rome), Sir Ludwig Guttmann brought 400 athletes to compete in the "Parallel Olympics", which became known as the first Paralympics. Since then, the Paralympics have been held in every Olympic year. In 2001 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) signed an agreement guaranteeing that host cities would be contracted to manage both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Youth Olympic Games The Youth Olympic Games were conceived by IOC president Jacques Rogge in 2001 and approved during the 119th Congress of the IOC. The first Summer Youth Games were held in Singapore in 2010, athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 were participated. The inaugural Winter Youth Games were hosted in Austria, two years later. The sports to be contested will coincide with those scheduled for the senior Games, however there will be variations on the sports including mixed NOC and mixed gender teams as well as a reduced number of disciplines and events.

21st-century games From 241 participants representing 14 nations in 1896, the Games have grown to about 10,500 competitors from 204 nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The scope and scale of the Winter Olympics is smaller. Sochi hosted 2,873 athletes from 88 nations competing in 98 events during the 2014 Winter Olympics. During the Games most athletes and officials are housed in the Olympic Village. This village is intended to be a self-contained home for all the Olympic participants, and is furnished with cafeterias, health clinics, and locations for religious expression.