Olympic Figures Of Summer And Winter Olympic Games

Added: 11/22/2007

The Olympic figures of this every multi-sporting event are always high with spirited contestants and competitors come from all around the world to compete in this biggest sporting event. Not only the athletes but many people from around the world flew in to the hosting city of Olympic Games to watch the exciting event Live rather than on a television. The multi-sporting event is the biggest highlight of the year it is held having all the spotlights on it.

The Olympic Games often referred to simply as “The Games” or “The Olympics” is an international multi-sport event further sub categorized into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years. Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated two years apart.
The original Olympic Games began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and were celebrated until 393 AD. Newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos showed interest in the Olympic Games in his poem “Dialogue of the Dead” in 1833. Evangelos Zappas funded the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. This was noted in newspapers and publications around the world including the London Review, which stated that "the Olympian Games, discontinued for centuries, have recently been revived! Here is strange news indeed ... the classical games of antiquity were revived near Athens".
In 1894 with the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frйdy, Baron de Coubertin the International Olympic Committee was founded in. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. Participation in the Olympic Games has increased to include athletes from nearly all nations worldwide. With the improvement of satellite communications and global telecasts of the events, the Olympics are consistently gaining supporters. The most recent Winter Olympics were the 2006 Games in Turin and the most recent Summer Olympics were the 2004 Games in Athens and. The upcoming Olympic figures in Beijing are planned to comprise 302 events in 28 sports. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were competed in 84 events in 7 sports.

Most of these cities experience a rise in their local real estate market immediately before and after they hosted the Olympic Games. Hence the term, "Olympic Estate" was born. The Olympic figures of the recent held games in 2004 are as follows:

RankNation GoldSilverBronzeTotal
1United States363927102
2China 32171463
3Russia 27273892
4Australia17161649
5Japan 1691237
6Germany 13162049
7France 1191333
8Italy 10111132
9South Korea912930
10Great Britain991230

The upcoming 2006 Winter Olympic Games take place in seven venues in and around Torino in Italy. The Olympic figures tell that over 2,500 athletes will compete in 15 disciplines including skiing, ice hockey and snowboarding. Also involved are:

•7 International Sports Federations
•85 National Olympic Committees
•21000 volunteers
•10000 media representatives
•2500 team officials (coaches, assistants, doctors, etc.)
•650 referees and judges
•2300 members of the IOC, National Olympic Committees and Federations

The 2006 Winter Olympics were hosted by Italy. The winner Olympic
figures for 2006 winter Olympic Games are:

RankNation Gold SilverBronze Total
1Germany 1112629
2United States99725
3Austria 97723
4Russia 86822
5Canada 710724
6Sweden 72514
7South Korea63211
8Switzerland54514
9Italy 50611
10France 3 24 9
Netherlands3 2 4 9

The Olympics facts and figures for every event can be found on the following websites:
http://sponsorships.visa.com/olympic/past_games.jsp
http://www.insidethegames.com/past_olympic_games.htm olympic figures

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