Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014 презентация

What is the Olympic Games?
Olympic Games or Olympic Games - the biggest international sporting events, which are held every four years. The tradition to hold sports originated in ancient Greece.
It was Pan-Hellenic celebration.

Olympic Games were held in honor of the supreme Greek god Zeus.
The first day of the Games opened a foot race.
After running the struggle.

Then there was the pentathlon. It included, in addition to running and fighting,
javelin-throwing,
and jumping.
By tradition, the athletes competed naked, women in the Games is not allowed.

Medal of Valor and the only award from the organizers of the games was the olive wreath.
Olimpionik, who won the competition three times, got the right to put in Olympia your own article.
The winners of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece called Olimpionik.

In 394 AD Roman emperor banned the Olympic Games.
They were only revived after 15 centuries, in 1896 through the efforts of Pierre de Coubertin.

The modern Olympics have a few characters.
1. Olympic flag
The rings represent the five parts of the world, the countries which participate in the Olympic movement: Europe - Blue America - red, Asia - yellow, Africa - Black, Australia - green. Six color (along with white linen background) combined in such a way that represent the national colors of all countries of the world.
2. Olympic anthem
Every Olympic Games has its own national anthem as a musical composition.

3. The Olympic flame
Olympic flame lit in the territory of the ruins of the temple of the goddess Hera in ancient Olympia in Greece. The fire on the torch is passed from athlete to athlete in the course of multi-day symbolic relay race, which takes place on all five inhabited continents of the Earth. The fire comes to the venue of the Olympic Games on the day of their discovery. Finalist of the torch relay of the Olympic flame lights the fire. It symbolizes the beginning of games. At the end of the competition the Olympic flame is extinguished the fire that symbolizes the closing of the Games.

4. Olympic medal
Olympic medals: gold, silver and bronze are awarded to three athletes, who showed the best results in the competition. In team sports medals equal dignity of each member of the team.
London 2012
Vancouver 2010
Beijing 2008
Gold medals are made mainly of silver. So, at the Games in 2008 a gold medal weighing about 150 grams, which is composed of only 6 grams of gold. Silver medals are made of silver, copper, bronze.

5. The Olympic Oath
Athletes give this oath: "On behalf of all competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules under which they are held, in the true spirit of the sport, for the glory of sport and the honor of their teams." Also, give your oath referees and coaches.
6. The Olympic motto
"Faster, higher, stronger!"
7. The Olympic mascot
Talisman for each Olympic host country is chosen at its discretion. So, at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, he was the mascot of the Olympic Bear.

8. Olympic emblem
Every Olympic Games has its own unique emblem that symbolizes the city and the host country.
For example, what has been the emblem of the Games in London in 2012.
9. Olive Branch
Olive branch is coiled in the form of a wreath at the branch, which is awarded to the winner, along with a gold medal. The tradition was revived her presentation at the Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004.

Winter
Olympic Games
2014
2014 Winter Olympics - international sporting event to be held from 7 to 23 February 2014. ? The capital of the Olympic Games, Sochi (Russia), was selected in Guatemala City, Guatemala City July 4, 2007. ? In Russia, the Olympic Games will be held for the second time (previously held in Moscow XXII Summer Olympic Games 1980), and for the first time - Winter Games.

Logo candidate city of Sochi to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2014
28 October 2005, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially approved the use of "Stars of Sochi" - the symbol of the bidding campaign "Sochi-2014" as the logo of Sochi as a candidate city to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2014.
Sochi Olympic emblem - a star of white and blue lines on a background of blue sky and mountain peaks. The entire logo is designed in the colors of the Russian flag. Blue - the color of the sea and sky, white - snow, red - the color of victory. Olympic rings the five colors are also symbolic to Sochi: blue skies most of the year the sun shines yellow, next to - the Black Sea, the city is in the green vegetation of the area and adjacent to Krasnaya Polyana.

The emblem of the Olympic Winter Games 2014
December 1, 2009 in Moscow, presented the emblem? Russia's first ever Winter Olympics "Sochi-2014".
The motto of the Sochi Games - Gateway to the Future (Gateway to the Future).

Large ice arena in Sochi built for hockey games, designed for 12,000 spectators

Small Ice Arena - hockey 7000 spectators.

Skating Center - speed skating, 8,000 spectators.

Ice palace of sports - figure skating, short track, 12000.

Olympic Stadium, 40,000 spectators.