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Champion of the photo album

Garrett, from Princeton University in the United States, had never thrown a discus before, but was lucky enough to win the championship. Garrett has a passion for art as well as sports, and admires The Discus Thrower, a monumental work of the Italian Renaissance. When he learned that the Olympics would be held in Athens, he was eager to compete. A friend said he had a strong arm and could compete in the discus. However, the United States did not have this program at that time, Garrett did not even know what shape the discus was, and he did not know anything about the throwing method. So he made his own discus according to the proportion of Milon's sculpture of the human body and the discus, and simulated the posture of The Discus Thrower, casually fiddled with a few at home, and then hastily came to Athens. When he came to the competition he realized that the discus was so light (the ancient discus was nowhere near as heavy as today's), it was both lightweight and convenient, so he threw 59.15 meters without effort and easily won the championship. The coaches and athletes on the field were dumbfounded and y puzzled by the player's amazing performance, while the audience cheered and applauded for the first-time American player. He later went on to win first place in the shot put.

Strange starting position

The track, dusty, laughter, in the slightly sloping track, was held in the 100-meter race, in the five finalists were an athlete from the United States, Tor Burke, who wore a distinctive tank top and pants, with other athletes wearing knee-length shorts compared to Burke's attire drew a burst of ridicule in the audience, and women even covered their faces and dared to applaud. Women in the audience even hid their faces. In the final, some of the athletes stood almost straight up, some bent over, but Burke took an almost crouched starting position, which again aroused curiosity and laughter from the audience. However, Burke was deaf to this and won the first modern Olympic 100-meter title with a time of exactly 12 seconds. Burke also won the 400-meter run in 54 seconds and 2 seconds, which prompted the crowd to exclaim, "Scud, the first Scud."

Tourist champion

Tennis has been listed as an official event in the first Olympic Games, but at that time, tennis was not very popular and the level of professional players was not very high. The first Olympic tennis tournament was held near the pillars of the Temple of Cupid in Athens. British Oxford University student Boland happened to be traveling in Athens, he is a tennis enthusiast, always carry a racket, the tournament was very hot, the original did not intend to participate in the he also wanted to try his hand, so he signed up on the spot, swung the racket on the battlefield, the results were actually playing all over the field, and became the first tennis singles champion in Olympic history.

Traun, a student at the Higher School of Technology in Dresden, Germany, was originally a track and field competitor and a tennis enthusiast who participated in the track and field competition. Having been eliminated in the preliminaries, he met Boland by chance in Athens. Boland invited him to pair up for doubles. The two ended up winning the doubles championship. Their unexpected gains in traveling are really enviable.

People small "ghost" big

The first Olympic wrestling champion is Germany's small athlete Schumann, in Athens, Pannadene stadium in a sand field, he from four countries, five competitors are knocked out of the "ring". The competition was not divided into weight classes. At the time, there were no weight classes, similar to the Chinese "ring".

Schumann was small and light, but even athletes who outweighed him by dozens of pounds were no match for him, and one by one he fell to the ground, resulting in him being crowned classical wrestling champion. However, his talent does not stop there, in gymnastics, he won the vault championship; in the bars, double bar team competition for the German team to win the title. Schumann was the most decorated athlete at the first Olympic Games. It's really a small man with a big "ghost".

Dispute over venue

The event ended with another heated dispute. The Greek king argued that the Games were part of the Greek national culture, inseparable from Greece, and that Athens should be the permanent site, or else it would be "an open plundering of the great and glorious Greek culture." The founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baidan Koo, disagreed with this viewpoint, and advocated that the Games should be held in different countries and regions on a rotating basis to break the limitations of a country's "monopoly", so as to reflect the international nature of the Olympic Games, and to make the Games more viable. With the support of the majority of NOC members, Coubertin's view was finally finalized. The Olympics have been held in different countries around the world in different styles.

The Greeks' first title

Of the 285 athletes from 13 countries who took part in the first modern Olympics, 197 were from Greece, the host country, but by the end of the games, the Greeks had not won a single title. The only hope left was in the final marathon.

The marathon **** had 25 athletes in it, and the residents of Athens watched with great excitement from almost every corner of the city. The Greek government in order to show pomp and circumstance, sent a cavalry in front of the guide, the result of the horse team through the place, dusty. The athletes had difficulty breathing, and many of them quit the race in the middle of the race. The starting point of the race is in a town called Marathon on the bridge, about 40 kilometers, which is the world's first official race of the longest distance running, the runners ran to a small village called Bikaneri, the French runners ahead of a large cut, a few people can not run, was helped down.

At the halfway point, it was the American Black in the lead, followed by the French and Australians. By the time they reached the village of Kavati, it was uphill. Several of the leading runners were running out of steam, some even walking instead of running. At this point Greece's Spyridon Roullis crept up from behind. At the 30km mark, the French leader dropped out of the race, but Roullis went from strength to strength, with the Australian staying 25 meters behind him. But it wasn't long before the Australian dropped out again, and it looked like there was no one left to compete with Roulles.

After nearly three hours of racing, the King of Greece was waiting anxiously in his box at the stadium when the messenger came to report the happy news that Greece's Spiridon Rouis was approaching the stadium. When he was the first to run into the stadium, the crowd erupted into a frenzy of excitement, and King George I, unable to sit still, stood up to watch. Roulles was exhausted, but kept up a determined pace, inspired by the enthusiasm of his countrymen. In the last few meters Crown Prince Constantine and Prince George excitedly accompanied him to the finish line, left and right. After crossing the finish line, Luiz bowed to the king, who stepped down from the viewing platform to greet the triumphant hero. People cheered and shouted and poured into the arena to lift Roullis up. Thanking him for winning the event for Greece. For the marathon was established in honor of the legendary story of the ancient Greek hero, Philetzidis, who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens to report a victory. In the first modern Olympic Games, it was exceptionally significant that the Greeks won the event.

Princes and heroes

The first king to participate in the Olympics was King Philip II of Macedonia, who in 356 B.C. won two commemorative coins for finishing ahead of the others in the Olympic horse-drawn carriages, the earliest surviving Olympic coins. After Rome ruled Greece, Emperor Neron, the great dictator, was so eager to participate in the Olympics that he moved up the date of the games by one year, organizing them in 67 A.D. and competing in the carriage race himself. When the other participants heard that Neron was also coming to compete with them, they retreated, and Emperor Neron, riding alone, became another king of carriages who won the championship after Philip II.

Sparta, with its good sports tradition, also had a noteworthy character, Princess Kunika, who defied the ban on women competing at the time and bravely took part in the Olympic Games, and became the first female champion of the ancient Olympic Games.

The first dignitary to be honored at the modern Olympics was Prince Olav of Norway, who won the Olympic sailing competition in Amsterdam in 1928 and succeeded to the throne as King of Norway in 1957.

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Harvard University ancient languages student Connolly get this news, eager to try, but the school that he went to participate in the competition will break the school system, against him to compete, he did not listen to the school's advice, determined to go to Athens. The Olympics began with the triple jump competition, with seven athletes from five countries competing, and Connolly became the first champion in modern Olympic history with a score of 13.71 meters. When he returned home, Harvard University expelled him for breaking school rules. Connolly did not give up on his athletic training and worked his way up to become a well-known journalist and author, and a close friend of his alumnus, Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the U.S. Harvard righted its wrongs in 1949, awarding the 80-year-old Connolly an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contributions to the modern Olympic movement.

Floating pumpkin separates lanes from icy cold water for first place

There were no swimming pools when the first modern Olympics were held, and the venue for the swimming competition became a big issue. There was a lot of debate about it. In the end, it was decided that it would be held in the cold waters of the Gulf of Zia, near Pileus.

The "swimming pool" had a unique lane, which was marked by a pumpkin floating on the surface of the water. The distance was not measured, but estimated by feel. Nine people signed up for the 1,200-meter race, but when they got to the finish line, only five of them stuck it out. The method of the race is even more amazing, first with a small wheel like the athletes carried away from the shore, the sender to see the distance is almost the same, they will send the order for the players to swim back to the shore, do not seek to swim, free play, according to the arrival of the shore of the successive rankings.

Helping people first, champions second

The 100-kilometer bike race at the first Olympics took place on a stadium rather than on a road. Athletes had to make 300 laps around the field. After the start France's Flaming had been leading the race, pulling down his rivals by several laps, and taking the title didn't seem to be much of a problem. Suddenly he realized that the Greek Colletis had stopped, but it turned out that his car had broken down. At that time, it was not allowed to replace the car, and if it could not be repaired, it could only be withdrawn from the race. Framing immediately stopped to help the Greek to fix his car and rejoin the trip. In the end, he still took the hanging crown with a time of 3 hours 8 minutes 19 seconds 2!