Reading the olympic games are an important event in the sports calendar. The website article below is about this extraordinary sporting event. Before you read the website article, think about the following questions. What do you know about the olympic games? Have you ever watched the olympics? How did you feel the olympic games? Every four years, thousands of highly trained and talented athletes gather together in the spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play, ready to test their abilities against each other in the hope of being recognized as the best of the best. This is the olympics, an extraordinary sporting event that was first celebrated about three thousand years ago. The ancient olympic games began in the year seven hundred, and seventy six beat C. E. During the early games, only greek men were allowed to participate. They competed in such events as boxing, running and the long jump. The ancient olympic games were held at olympia in greece every four years for almost twelve centuries, until they eventually died out around the year three hundred and ninety three, more than one thousand. Five hundred years later, however, the games rose again. The modern olympics were first held in eighteen ninety six in athens. IT was a frenchman, pier to kubrick, who brought the olympics back to life. His dream was that the olympics would help people of different racial origins and from different cultures live side by side in peace. For over a century, people from diverse backgrounds have made joint efforts to help realize couperin stream. Motivated by the original olympic model faster, higher, stronger. Many well known athletes, both male and female, have to voted themselves to achieving sporting excEllence and pushing the boundaries of human achievement. One such olympian was the boxer cashes clay. He came to public attention during the nineteen sixty round olympics when he won the light heavyweight gold medal for the U. S. A, demonstrating great talent and personality in the process. Afterwards, this Young men proceeded to become the world heavyweight champion in nineteen sixty four, and later changed his name to the one we all know, muhamad I. He returned to the nineteen ninety six eight olympic games to light the olympic flame at the opening ceremony. By the time he died in two thousand sixteen, all I had been recognized as one of the greatest boxers of all time. Another sports person that should be applauded is Jessica anis hill. Her story is a remarkable example of how hard work devotion can lead to sporting excEllence. A former track and field athlete from the U. K. SHE won an olympic gold medal in her home country in two thousand twelve. As if that were not enough, SHE returned to the olympics and won a silver medal in two thousand sixteen, just two years after giving birth to her first child. In an interview, he revealed that the secret of her consistent good performance was the training that he never missed. The two thousand eight beijing olympics called on the whole world to join the olympics spirit and build a Better future for humanity with the slogan one world, one dream. In addition to hosting the olympics for the first time, china also ranked first in the middle table. This success is truly remarkable if you consider that just twenty four years before, at the nineteen eighty four los Angeles olympics. So I think our country's first ever gold metal since then, the upper trend for chinese sport has been unstoppable at the two thousand four athons olympic games, luis Young became the first asian to win the gold metal and the man's one hundred and ten meter hurdles. Well, of the two thousand sixteen real olympic games, the chinese women's volleyball team won a hard thought Victory in the I know another historic moment for china came when beijing successfully hosted the twenty twenty two winter olympics after winning the election in two thousand fifteen. The olympic games bring joy and excitement to people across the world. As schobert believed, with the olympic games, each generation celebrates its advent. It's joy of living, it's faith in the future, it's ambition and it's well to send.