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The Six Nations

The Six Nations. BY THE WENDEVILLE’S. THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

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The Six Nations

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  1. The Six Nations BY THE WENDEVILLE’S

  2. THE OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in southwest Greece. The Games were part of a religious festival. The Greek Olympics, thought to have begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic Games (begun in 1896) The Games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and were staged every four years at Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis. People from all over the Greek world came to watch and take part.

  3. GREECE Greece was home of the Ancient Games, and was therefore a natural choice as host nation for the revival of the modern Olympic Games in1896. The nation has competed at every Summer Olympic games since then, one of only four countries to have done so (and the only one of them to compete under its national flag at Moscow despite the Greek government's support for an American led boycott of the Games over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ), and most Winter Olympic gamessince1936. During the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony, Greece is always called first, due to its status as being the founder of the ancient precursor to the modern Olympic Games.

  4. CHINA The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) first competed at the Olympic Games in 1952, at the Summer Games in Helsinki, although they only arrived in time to participate in one event.1 That year, the international Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed both the PRC and the Republic of China (which recently relocated to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War) to compete, although the latter withdrew in protest. Due to the dispute over the political status of China, the PRC did not participate in the Olympics again until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Their first appearance at the Summer Olympic Games after 1952 was the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The People's Republic of China hosted the Games on one occasion: the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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