The Olympic Movement began with the Historic Olympic Video video games, which have been held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the sort of an athletic pageant. The recorded historic previous of the Historic Olympic Video video games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Video video games had been held for a quantity of centuries by that time. The Video video games have been carried out as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about one thousand B.C. In fashionable time The Olympic Movement makes an try and convey all the nations of the world collectively in a set of multisport festivals, the Olympic Video video games, in search of to make use of sport as a strategy to promote internationalism and peace.

This fifth model of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its historic previous by way of a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an in depth bibliography. The dictionary half has over one thousand cross-referenced entries on the historic previous, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, essential organizations, the quite a few sports activities actions, the collaborating nations, and notably the athletes. This book is an excellent entry degree for school youngsters, researchers, and anyone desperate to know additional about The Olympic Movement.