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Today, most of the people all around the world waited so eagerly when the Olympics games were announced to be held in every 4 years. Recently, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce and politics between nationalities of each country. Now, there were almost 203 countries currently participate in the Olympics. The Olympics are known from the history that consists of two period of time that is the ancient and modern Olympics while for each of Olympics have its own successful athletes and the countries that hosted the Olympic will have to face problems due on hosting the Olympic.

In the history of ancient Olympics games, it was a mainly part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses. The festival and the games were held in Olympia. The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until 724 BC. From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. It took 1503 years for the Olympics to return after it were staged in Olympia in Athens Greece in the ancient era The person that has been responsible for its rebirth of the Olympic Games was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who has presented the idea in 1894. The Athens serves as the first host and recently, we have just experienced the 2008 Olympic game in Beijing, China and for the next Olympic will be held in London, England that is in 2012.

In each of the Olympic era, there were people that get involved with the Olympic Games and end up being successful athletes. In the era of the ancient Olympics games, there were a few of the names like Milo of Kroton, Theagenes of Thasos,Diagoras of Rhodes ,Polydamas of Skotoussa and Melankomas of Caria. But, one of the most legendary athletes in the ancient world is Milo of Kroton, which wore the victor's crown at Olympia no less than six times. In the game, Milo won the boys' wrestling contest in 540 BCE. Beside Milo of Kroton, one of the most legendary athletes in the same era was Theagenes of Thasos. He has become the most legendary boxer, pankratiast and runner. He have won boxing in the 75th Olympiad, 480 BCE and won in the pankration in the 76th Olympiad, 476 BCE. For the world record in the modern Olympics Irina Rodnina was the most successful athletes in history. Her three Olympic victories in 1972 with Aleksey Ulanov and in 1976 and 1980 with Aleksandr Zaytsev are a record for a pair’s skater. Her record at the World Championships was even more impressive. She won the title for ten successive years (1969-1978). For recently, in 2008 Olympics that was held in Beijing, the most successful athletes have won by the American swimmer Michael Phelps won a 13th gold medal.

The other facts about Olympic is the problems that may occur to the country that will host the Olympics games. Financing the Olympics is one of the largest problems faced by the IOC (International Olympic Council) and host countries today. Although allowing professional athletes and attracting sponsorships from major international companies solved financial problems but the large number of athletes, media and spectators makes it difficult and expensive for host cities to organize the Olympics. For example, the 2012 Summer Olympics (which will be held in London), is expected to have a budget of over £9 billion—one of the largest budgets for an Olympics to date. The other problem is, the Olympics usually being associated with one host city, most of the Olympics have had events held in other cities, especially the football and sailing events. For example, in the 2008 Beijing Olympics events were held in the territories of two different events were held in Hong Kong. This kind of problems is a norms to the country that will host an Olympic Games.

Although in every Olympics may come to a very difficult process but at the end, none of the festivals ended unsuccessfully. The Olympic Games is all about the history of ancient and modern Olympics games, the risen of a successful athletes in both era and the problems that may occurred to the Olympic host. Throughout on each festival, Olympics may come with a simple hope to all of the nationalities and ended the games with victories in hand.