奥运会英文是什么？

the Olympic Games。

奥林匹克运动会（希腊语：ΟλυμπιακοίΑγώνες、法语：Jeux olympiques、英语：Olympic Games；中文简称“奥运会”），是国际奥林匹克委员会主办的世界规模最大的综合性运动会，每四年一届，会期不超过16日，是世界上影响力最大的体育盛会。

简介

奥运会分为夏季奥林匹克运动会、夏季残疾人奥林匹克运动会、冬季奥林匹克运动会、冬季残疾人奥林匹克运动会、夏季青年奥林匹克运动会、冬季青年奥林匹克运动会、世界夏季特殊奥林匹克运动会、世界冬季特殊奥林匹克运动会、夏季聋人奥林匹克运动会、冬季聋人奥林匹克运动会十个运动会。

奥运会中，各个国家和地区用运动交流各国文化，以及切磋体育技能，其目的是鼓励人们不断进行体育运动。

-奥林匹克运动会

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Olympic Games

Every four years, athletes from around the world come together to compete in the Olympic Games Do you know why this event is called the Olympics The games were first held at Olympia in ancient Greece The ancient Olympic Games honored the Greek god Zeus Today, the Olympic Games are held in different cities around the world

THE ANCIENT GAMES

We know that the ancient Olympics began as far back as 776 bc That’s when the Greeks began keeping records of the winners The ancient Games continued until about ad 392, more than 1,000 years!

Athletes came from cities throughout Greece to compete in races, boxing and wrestling matches, gymnastics, and weightlifting They also threw spears, hurled a discus (bronze disk), and jumped for distance Wealthy Greeks raced their horses Winners were crowned with wreaths of olive or palm leaves

The ancient Olympic Games were not just a sporting event, however There were competitions in poetry, music, speechmaking, and other arts as well

At the beginning and end of the Games, animals were sacrificed (killed and offered) to Zeus A splendid temple was built at Olympia in Zeus’s honor When people stopped worshiping the Greek gods, the Olympic Games were canceled

THE MODERN GAMES

The Olympic Games were brought back in 1896 The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, the capital of Greece Only nine countries participated in the first Games, and all the athletes were male

Today, some 10,000 athletes compete in the Olympic Games, and nearly half of them are female They represent about 200 nations

At first, the modern Olympics included only summer sports, such as swimming, rowing, and track and field Figure skating was added in 1908, and ice hockey in 1920

The first winter Olympic Games were held in 1924 More winter sports were later added to the Winter Games, including downhill skiing, bobsledding, and ski jumping Snowboarding and freestyle skiing followed in the 1990s

From 1924 through 1992, the Winter Games and the Summer Games took place in the same year After 1992, the next Winter Games were moved up two years, to 1994 Winter Games and Summer Games now occur two years apart Each of these Games takes place every four years

GOING FOR THE GOLD

After each Olympic event, medals are awarded to the competitors who finish in first, second, and third place First-place winners receive a gold medal Those who finish in second place receive a silver medal, and those in third place, a bronze medal

Olympic athletes often dazzle the world In 1912, Jim Thorpe of the United States won the gold medal for two of the most difficult contests in track and field: the pentathlon, which consists of five different events, and the decathlon, which consists of ten events Thorpe is still the only athlete to have won the pentathlon and decathlon at the same Olympics

In 1932, Babe Didrikson of the United States became the only Olympic athlete ever to win medals in separate running, jumping, and throwing events Four years later, African American track star Jesse Owens won four gold medals

During the 1970s, the thrilling performances of Olga Korbut of the Soviet Union and Nadia Comaneci of Romania inspired a generation of girls to take up gymnastics Also in the 1970s, American Mark Spitz amazed the world by winning a total of seven gold medals in swimming In the 1980s and 1990s, Carl Lewis of the United States won a total of nine Olympic gold medals in track-and-field events Sarah Hughes charmed audiences as she skated her way to a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics The star of the Summer Olympics in 2004 was American swimmer Michael Phelps, who won a total of eight medals

奥运会的英语名言有：

1、Faster, higher, stronger

更快、更高、更强

2、Participation in the Olympic Games is more important than winning

参与比取胜更重要

3、Peace, friendship, progress and development - the spirit of the Olympic Games

和平、友谊、进步和发展 - 奥运会精神

4、Sports is peace

体育就是和平

5、One World, One Dream

同一个世界，同一个梦想