The
Olympics are held in Athens in 1896 and are continued while sandwiching the
interruption by the World War. From Lillehammer meeting of 1994, it alternated every
two years in the summer and the winter season and came to hold it. Olympic has
changes more than the past. I want to write it about the change in this page.
It is the
Olympics aiming at the revival of the festival of the ancient peace, but the
terrorist incident in 2 degrees World War and Munich meeting, the influence of
the occasional international politics including East-West boycott battles with
the Afghanistan war under the Cold War are big. Even the current Olympics were related to
some extent, but influence on international politics was very big in old days. Olympics is popular in the
world, but seemed to have possibilities to be boycotted in the past. As the cause, a
factor of each state politics affected it. As the Olympics became gigantic, the
increase of the financial burden became the big problem, and a state only in
1-2 cities seemed to have continued a candidate with the summer, the winter
season. As
having illustrated by the first page, more than 400 items, 33 competitions, and
51 classifications are included in Olympics program as of 2011. The competition
that exists from first and continued being carried out is only 4 competitions
of track and field, a swimming race, gymnastics, the fencing to date without
being taken off. The popular sports that baseball or soccer was not
accepted as a competition from a beginning, too.
Look at this
picture. This is the current Olympics and the old Olympics.
As can be
see, scales are totally different. It developed through various history to
here. I
feel that it changed very much in comparison with old days when I think by an
appearance.
In conclusion,
The Olympics turned very much about number of the competitions and appearance
than old days, but I understood the fact that could not completely cut off what
international politics affected did not still change in old days either.