World Olympic Day

Every year, the International Olympic Day was celebrated on the 23^rd of June. World Olympic day was celebrated to commemorate the foundation of the International Olympic Committee. The Olympic games are conducted once in four years. Players from all over the world will participate in Olympic games to represent their country and make it prove by winning medals. 

The main objective of celebrating World Olympic day is to inspire people towards sports. Here the objective, history, and significance of celebrating International Olympic day are given in detail. 

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History Behind World Olympic Day 

According to Olympic history,  the International Olympic day was mainly celebrated to commemorate the foundation of the International Olympic Committee at the Sorbonne in Paris. The International Olympic Committee was founded on 23^rd June 1894. Pierre de Coubertin a French educator and historian was the founder and second president of the International Olympic Committee. Demetrios Vikelas, a Greek businessman took charge as the first president of the International Olympic Committee and was retained in the post from 1894 to 1896. Nine National Olympic Committees are started to celebrate International Olympic Day on 23^rd June 1948. The list of countries that took part in the National Olympic Committee is Canada, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Venezuela and Belgium. 

World Olympic Day Objectives

The main objective of celebrating International Olympic Day is to promote sports and to create awareness about sports among people. Through the Olympic day celebration, they are trying to prove sports is an integral part of life.  During the International Olympic Day celebration, thousands of people from various countries are participating in sports activities and other activities. The main goal of celebrating this day is to promote people to participate in sports regardless of their age, gender, disability, and many more. 

The International Olympic Day has also increased awareness about the health of people and the importance of sports in day-to-day activities among the general public.  The theme of the International Olympic day celebrations on 23^rd July 2021 is to “stay healthy, stay strong, stay active with the Olympic Day”. 

Pillars Of Olympic Day

International Olympic day has three pillars, they are move, learn and discover. 

Move: Move is forcing people to have enough physical activity for all the people of all ages and abilities. On Olympic Day, the committee is organizing individual and team sports for creating interest among people and to have physical activity, and to be active on Olympic day. 

Learn: Learn is a pillar of Olympic day, it is insisting that people be aware of friendship, health awareness, environmental protection,  humanity, checking human trafficking, education, peacebuilding, HIV prevention, local community development, and respecting all human beings. 

Discover: The Olympic day is also creating an opportunity to invent hidden talents among people and also encouraging people to try new sports and other activities to explore the new field. 

The International Olympic Day is creating wide opportunities for the people to involve in sports activities and to access sports in lesser populated areas too, 

Significance Of International Olympic Day 

People from various countries are celebrating International Olympic Day with many other activities other than sports events.  People around the world getting awareness about the celebration of the day to reduce the risk due to obesity in a fast-growing world. 

As per the report, more than 65% of American men and more than 60% of women are suffering from obesity. Even 30% of people less than the age of 20 years are facing obesity in the USA. On another side, the UN report said that about 237 million people in the sub-Saharan Africa region are suffering from chronic undernutrition. So International organizations are trying to insist on the importance of sports among the people and increase sportsmanship across the globe. 

Jesse Owens, Kristi Yamaguchi, Gabby Douglas, Clara Hughes, and many others gave the famous World Olympic Day Quotes. One of the famous world Olympic day quotes written by Jean-Claude Kill is “To win, you have to risk loss”

10 Facts Of 1^st Olympic Games

1. In the early 1600s, people celebrated the informal Olympic festivals. 

2. Initially, many countries do not send their teams officially, to take part in the game. 

3. The first swimming competition of the Olympics was held in the open sea near the Bay of Zea. 

4. The winners of the 1896 Olympics did not receive the gold medal, instead, they received silver medals with certificates and olive branches. 

5. Only the three greek navy people participated in the first Olympic games. 

6. No female competitors participated in the first Olympic games. And that was the only Olympic match, that woman does not take part in it. 

7.  Robert Garrett’s, an American won the medal in discus throw in Athens Olympics. But it was his first attempt in his life to throw a disc. 

8. In the Athens games, Dimitrios Loundras was the youngest athlete of age 10 years, who took part in the competition. 

9. In the Athens games, the first marathon was conducted. 

10. Many people suggested making Athens the permanent home for the Olympics. But the founder of the International Olympic Committee does not make a note of it. 

Interesting Facts About Olympics

1. The gold medals given to the winners of the Olympic games are made up of Silver. The total weight of the gold medal provided in the Tokyo Olympics is about 556 grams, but it contains only 6 grams of gold. 

2. The Olympic torch relay was not from ancient tradition. It was started at the berlin Olympics in 1936. 

3. Due to world war 1 and world war 2, three modern Olympics were cancelled. 

4. The symbol of the Olympic games is five colour ring, all the countries national flags will have at least one colour as in a ring. 

5. Switzerland, Great Britain, Greece, France, and Australia are the five countries that are taking part in the all the summer Olympics. 

6. Till now, only two people have won gold medals in both the winter and summer Olympics. 

7. Till now, two athletes have won gold medals in two different Olympic games for representing two different nations. 

8. In the ancient Olympic games, people who participated in gymnastics took part as nude. 

9. The alcohol test for the participants of the Olympic games was not conducted till 1968. 

10. Women competitors from all the countries took part in the 2012 London Olympics for the first time.

11. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the co-founder of the Olympic games designed the symbol of the Olympics. 

12. Rio Olympics 2016 was the first Olympic game conducted in South America.  

13. Till now, the Olympic games were hosted in 23 different countries. 

14. In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, two Japanese pole-vaulters tied in second place, 

15. Artists like, painters, writers, sculptors, musicians have also participated in Olympics conducted from 1912 to 1948

This article gave the significance, History behind World Olympic Day celebrations, the importance of International Olympic day, facts of 1^st  Olympic games and other interesting facts about Olympic games are given in detail.