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Unit Eight.

Reading.

The Olympic Games.

Exercise Two.

The first Olympic Games were in ancient Greece in seven hundred and seventy-six BC. These games were only for Greek athletes. International athletes didn't participate. There were events like running and the pentathlon, but there weren't any team sports.

The modern Olympics started in Athens in eighteen ninety-six. Now, they take place every four years. The only exceptions were nineteen sixteen, nineteen forty, and nineteen forty-four. They didn't take place in those years because of the two World Wars.

The Winter Olympics began in nineteen twenty-four. Now, eighty countries participate in the Winter Games. There are seven winter sports, including skiing and ice hockey.

The Paralympics didn't exist until nineteen sixty. At the first Paralympics in Rome, there were four hundred athletes. Now, nearly four thousand athletes participate in the Paralympics.

Before nineteen sixty, people didn't watch the Olympics on television. But in two thousand and eight, about one billion people around the world watched the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

Did you know?

The Olympic flag symbolizes the five continents.

The athletes in ancient Greece didn't wear clothes.

Women didn't participate in the Olympic Games until nineteen hundred. Now, there are ninety-seven events for women and one hundred and sixty-three events for men.