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    What Are the Summer Olympics?
    What Are the Summer Olympics?
    What Are the Summer Olympics?
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    What Are the Summer Olympics?

    By Gail Herman, Who HQ and Stephen Marchesi

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    Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands.

    The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought back to life. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, with over two hundred athletes from fourteen countries. Today, nearly three thousand years after the first Games, the Summer Olympics attract one hundred thousand top athletes from over two hundred countries. Billions of fans around the world cheer on their national teams to bring back the gold.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
    Release dateMar 22, 2016
    ISBN9780399542909
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      What Are the Summer Olympics? - Gail Herman

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      For Lizzie—gymnast, sprinter, and more—GH

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

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      An Imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

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      Text copyright © 2016 by Gail Herman. Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. GROSSET & DUNLAP is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Copyright

      What Are the Summer Olympics?

      The Ancient Games: 776 BC–AD 393

      The Modern Games Begin: The Late 1800s

      The Olympics Grow: The Early 1900s

      New Games, New Stars: The 1920s

      Politics Enter the Games: The 1930s

      After the War: Late 1940s and 1950s

      Time for Change: The 1960s

      Munich and Montreal: The 1970s

      Dives and Drugs: The 1980s

      Dreams Lost and Found: The 1990s

      A New Century: The 2000s

      At the Close

      Movies about the Olympics

      Timelines

      Bibliography

      Photographs

      What Are the Summer Olympics?

      Every four years during the summer, athletes from every corner of the globe meet to compete in the Olympics—the greatest sports contest on earth.

      For about two weeks, athletes test their skill, their strength, and their luck in more than three hundred events. Arenas for the Olympics become a world stage, with billions of fans following the Games on TV.

      There have been generals, princes, and movie stars who have competed in the Olympics. But more often than not, athletes are ordinary young men and women. Except, of course, they are not ordinary. They are champions in running, jumping, swimming, rowing, cycling, gymnastics, tennis, and soccer. Name any warm-weather sport, and most likely it’s been played at the Summer Olympics.

      Weeks before the athletes meet, the Olympics have actually already begun.

      Where?

      In Olympia, Greece, the site of the original, ancient Olympic Games. There, in a valley surrounded by gentle hills, a mirror is held up to the sun. The rays light the flame on a torch.

      The Olympic torch will be carried to the city hosting the Games. The journey connects the Games of today to the Games of the ancient past. Long ago, fires burned in front of temples to honor Greek gods. Today the torch is passed from person to person moving by foot, car, train, boat, plane, through countries, across oceans, over mountains. On the way to Beijing, China, in 2008, the torch

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