Why do you know about the Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an important international event. They can be winter games or summer games. Each type of olympic games is hold every 4 year, every time in different countries. The first "modern" Olympics happened in 1896 in Athens, Greece. It's the most important competition for the sportsmen. The first, second, and third place finishers in each event receive gold, silver, and bronze medals.

The Olympic logo - the Olympic rings - consists of five rings and represents the unity of the five inhabited continents (America, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe).

The Olympic motto is "Faster, Higher, Stronger".

In Russia Olympic Games were in 1980. it was Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The second Olympic Games in Russia will be in 2014 in Sochi. It will be the first Winter Olympic Games in our country.