Sammarizing

Sammarizing

We know that the ancient Greeks had a festival in which athletes competed in sport. This celebration was held regularly every four years and was open to all men and boys who spoke
Greek as their native language. These ancient games were simpler than our modern ones. For the month before the festival, the athletes attended a formal course of exercise at the gymnasium in the city of Olympia. Then the competition itself consisted of a single footrace. Later festivals included as jumping, wrestling, discus throwing, and horse racing. When the Greeks began paying athletes, there were problems with professionalism. In addition, instead of participating in all sport, the competitors began; that is, they concentrated on only one Olympic event. Because of this in terest in money and the increasing specialization of athletes, the ancient games lost their original puapose; they ended in A.D. 393.The frirst of the modern Olympic took place in the same city as the original festivals. The games are popular and spectacular events.There have been hundreds of exciting, special Olympic moments that people all over world have shared by reading newspaper stories, watching films ,or seeing the actual events on TV or in person. War between Greek cities stopped the ancient games only twice in one thousand years .Politics rarely in the Olympic games. In modern time, however such has not been the case. Political conflicts have influenced the games more often just during the rule of Hitler. In addition to polities, there have been problems with the athletes who compete in the games. Some have used illegal drugs and chemicals. Fur the more, as in the ancient Greek festivals, there have been increasing problems with professionalism of modern athletes. In general, only amateurs are supposed to compete in the Olympic, but the exact time between amateur and professional has become a very thin one. For these reasons, participants and spectator woray about future of the Olympic games