The very first Olympic Games were held in Greece nearly three thousand years ago. The Olympics have grown and changed a lot since then. Because they are so old and so big, there are many Olympic traditions. The Olympics have their own anthem, or song, and their own special ag. The ag has ve coloured rings. Every Olympic Games also has its own mascot – an animal or object that is specially chosen for that year’s Games. The mascot is chosen by the host country and is seen in every piece of information about the Olympics that year. Often the mascot is something that makes people think of the host country. For the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the mascots were three Australian animals. The mascot for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Russia, was a bear called Misha.