the Olympic the Olympics are theories of international sporting event that are hosted in different cities around the world summer and winter games are held in rotation every two years the modern Olympic games are based on Ancient games that were first held in Olympia Greece in 776 BC to begin as part of a local religious Festival the food groups from all over the ancient world came to compete a month before the games begin people Waging War declared a truce so the athletes could travel safely to Olympia the games were held every four years in July or August from a one day event the festival developed into a five-day spectacle that included foot races wrestling Boxing discus and Javelin throwing chariot races and horse races all free born male could compete women could own a chariot team or a racehorse but could not compete in or even watch the event winner has brought great honor to their home Villages they receive no money but often got free meals or tickets to sporting or cultural events the ancient games lasted for twelve hundred years until the Roman Emperor theodosius and did them in 393 ad the Romans destroyed the Olympic site a year later the Olympic Games Were started again in the late eighteen hundreds Baron de coubertin the French educator believe that competing in sport but young people important values which is fair play courage and respect for their fellow men who founded the international Olympic Committee in 1894 two years later the committee put on the first modern games in Athens the first separate Winter Olympics was held in 1924 women competed for the first time in 1928 and held the Summer Olympics of 2004 for 17 days more than 11,000 athletes from 202 countries competed in 28 sport over four billion people watch these games on television is the Olympics being held this year