Why do we have the olympics?

Question

Why do we have the olympics?

Answer 1

Do you mean why there are the Olympics or the Olympics are being held in your country?

Answer 2

they bring  the  Masters  and  slaves   together in a  friendly.. comical  way!!

Answer 3

The origin of the ancient Olympic Games has been lost, although there are many legends surrounding its origins. One of these legends associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of ekeicheiria or Olympic Truce. The first recorded celebration of the Games in Olympia was in 776 BC, although this was certainly not the first time they were held. The Games were then mostly a local affair, and only one event was contested, the stadion race.

From that moment on, the Games slowly became more important throughout ancient Greece, reaching their zenith in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. The Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held. The number of events increased to twenty, and the celebration was spread over several days. Winners of the events were broadly admired and were immortalised in poems and statues. The Games were held every four years, and the period between two celebrations became known as an Olympiad. The Greeks used Olympiads as one of their methods to count years. The most famous Olympic athlete lived in these times: The sixth century BC wrestler Milo of Croton is the only athlete in history to win a victory in six Olympics.

The Games gradually lost in importance as the Romans gained power in Greece. When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Olympic Games were seen as a "pagan" festival threatening Christian hegemony, and in 393 the emperor Theodosius outlawed the Olympics, ending a thousand year period of Olympic Games.

During the ancient times normally only young men competed. Performers were usually naked, not only as the weather was appropriate but also as the festival was meant to be, in part, a celebration of the achievements of the human body. Upon winning the games, the victor would get not only the prestige of being in first place but also a crown of olive leaves.

During competition for some of the events, many of the participants would use oils to keep their skin smooth, as well as provide an appealing luster to anyone who saw them.

Answer 4

The 5 circles or rings are a symbol of freemasonry in the world, here is a quote by Jordan Maxwell from his book, Matrix of Power concerning this olympic symbol.

The five "circles" of Freemasonic friendship: In addition to five certain countries (Italy, France, Germany, England and America), this symbol is more recently said to represent the continents of the earth.

In Freemasonry in Europe the groups were called circles. The circles were called friends. There were five circle of friends, America being one of them. Italy, France, Germany, England, and America are the five circles of friends. They were called in European Freemasonry, the Olympiads, so that today the Olympiad Organization's symbol is five circles, the five Masonic circles of friends. Of course,

The circles were, to be sure, the circle of friends within the Masonic league. The torch, of course, the Olympic torch, is the torch of Prometheus, the God who stole fire for the service of man. And, again, as we said, in New York in front of Rockefeller Plaza you will see the statue of Prometheus, holding in his hand a flame, the torch, the fire of

revolution. The dime, of course,

on the Mercury head dime, inscripted on the back of the dime you will find the torch of illumination. It's still there today. The modern American

dime has the torch of illumination. The Statue of Liberty has the torch. Of course, on all universities and colleges we find in their symbols and emblems that they have the torches, symbolically standing for illumination of the Illuminati.

Jordan Maxwell knows it has to do with freemasonry, which is shrouded with occult sybolism that takes us back to greek mythology and in this case, the god premethius.

my guess each circle represents the strength of that continent in compitition and its order among the rest of the world.

Answer 5

Yes I agree....why do we have the Olympics??????

Answer 6

for the glory of sport, and with all the billions spent on it for 2 weeks of action, a quick little war would be cheaper

Answer 7

Its cheaper than war.

Answer 8

every country should send its 5 best warriors and we can put them in an arena to fight to the death. it would be funny to see all the other countries gang up on the third world countries who are crappy at everything including war

Answer 9

Wow, Nel G has a LONG answer. To spare you the trouble of reading it, here you go:

People want to compete and find out who the best is! And other people like to watch. Some may argue it has to do with job creation....

Answer 10

because were british and we rock