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The Symbols of The Olympic and Paralympic games
By ?igan Larisa and Ranisav Andrei
Coordonated by Mirianici Lavinia Bohm
Cristina Ivascu Simona Iosa Alina
Liceul Teoretic Grigore Moisil Timisoara
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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 them
• The history of the paralympic games
• The meaning of that symbols

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The Story of the Olympic Games

• A Journey to Ancient Greece

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• 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
Peloponnesos.
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• 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.
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! Only free men and boys from Greece were allowed
to compete in the ancient Greece Olympic Games.
Women were 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.

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• 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.

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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).

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• 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.
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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.
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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.
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• 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.

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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.
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• 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 nations flag in it.

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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)

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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.

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• 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"

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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Paralympics Games

• The Paralympic Games is a major
  international multi-sport event, involving
  athletes with a range of physical disabilities,
  including impaired muscle power.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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The Paralympic logo was designed to reflect the
four core values of the Paralympics courage,
determination, inspiration and equality.
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