It was burnt in the sacred lamps of temples as well as being the " eternal flame " of the original Olympic Games.

* Olympic flame

" After lighting the flame in the Olympic Cauldron, Nurmi passed the torch to his idol Kolehmainen, who lighted the beacon in the tower.

A torch carried in relay by cross-country runners is used to light the Olympic flame which burns without interruption until the end of the Games.

These torches and relay tradition were introduced in 1936 Summer Olympics by Carl Diem, the chairman of the event because during the duration of the Ancient Olympic Games in Olympia, a sacred flame burns inside of the temple of Hera, kept in custody by her priestess.

The Olympic flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games.

In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times, which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

It is considered to be a great honor to be asked to light the Olympic flame.

The modern Olympic flame is ignited at the site where the temple of Hera used to stand.

The Marathon Tower at the Olympisch Stadion ( Amsterdam ) | Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, where the first modern Olympic flame burned at the 1928 Summer Olympics | 1928

Olympic flame in Berlin, 1936

An employee of the Electric Utility of Amsterdam lit the first Olympic flame in the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

The modern convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue began in 1936.

The Olympic flame was lit by a concave mirror in Olympia, Greece and transported over 3, 187 kilometres by 3, 331 runners in twelve days and eleven nights from Greece to Berlin.

Although most of the time the torch with the Olympic flame is still carried by runners, it has been transported in many different ways.

The Olympic flame covered a distance of more than 78, 000 km in the hands of some 11, 300 torchbearers, travelling to Africa and South America for the first time, visiting all previous Olympic cities and finally returning to Athens for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Paavo Nurmi, lighting the Olympic flame in Helsinki in 1952

The Olympic flame at the 2004 opening ceremony in Athens

The Vancouver Olympic flame

* Stone put: This event is similar to the modern-day shot put as seen in the Olympic Games.

Spyridon (" Spyros ") Louis (, sometimes transliterated Loues ; January 12, 1873 – March 26, 1940 ) was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

The Winter Olympic Games have been hosted in the Swiss, French, Italian and Austrian Alps.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

* 2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

In 1900 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.

Every four years, the Athenians held a festival called the Panathenaea that rivaled the Olympic Games in popularity.

Spanish and international movies such as Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann, Manolete by Menno Meyjes have been shot there.

Category: Host cities of the Summer Olympic Games

Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations.

Bouts consist of three rounds of three minutes in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, and three rounds of three minutes in a national ABA ( Amateur Boxing Association ) bout, each with a one-minute interval between rounds.

Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games in 1992, which helped revitalize the city.

The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

Full, joint BWCHs have never been held in Olympic Winter Games seasons.

* Carin Cone ( born 1940 ), an American swimmer, Olympic medalist, world record holder, and gold medal winner from the Pan American Games

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

Curling has been an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >