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What are the Olympics?

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• Now, time for this episode. We’ll talk about the Olympics.


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• Have you heard of the Olympics? They just finished the 2024 Summer Olympics. Olympics are where you can compete in a sport to earn gold, silver, or bronze medals for your country. The country with the most medals wins.


• You might have heard it because of your parents, who are probably talking about the Olympics.


• The Olympics go waaaaaay back. The first recorded Olympics was in 776 BCE.


• BCE means “Before the Common Era”. It means that many years negative.


• For example, 776 BCE means the year -776 or you can say 776 years before the year 0.


• CE means “Common Era”. It means that many years positive.


• For example, 2024 CE means the year 2024 or you can say 2024 years after the year 0.


• Now that we’ve learned about BCE and CE, imagine how long ago 776 BCE was!


• The first games were in Olympia, in Europe.


• But in the year 393 CE, a Roman emperor shut down the Olympics because he thought they were bad.


• The Olympics were started again in modern times, when people wanted to compete.


• Now you can represent your favorite team in the Olympics!


• Time for some fun facts now:


• 1. In the Olympics, since it started in Greece, a torch is lit there and an international relay race takes place to get to the country where the Olympics is every year.


• 2. The Olympics is in a different place each year. This year, it was in Paris, and in 2028 it will be in Los Angeles.


• 3. Tug of war used to be a sport in the Olympics.


• 4. Art used to be in the Olympics.


• 5. Until 1912, the Olympics used to hand out full gold medals, made of actual gold! They soon realized it was too expensive, and now the medals are just dipped in gold, and made of metal.


• 6. Hot air ballooning was a sport!


• 7. In 776 BCE, the Olympics used to hand out olive-branch crowns instead of medals.


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