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Olympic Games

The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad, first held in 1896, are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that started in 1904. The Winter Olympic Games were also created due to the success of the Summer Olympics. The Olympics have increased from a 42-event competition with fewer than 250 male athletes from 14 nations to a 300-event sporting celebration with over 10,000 competitors from 205 nations. Organizers for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing expected approximately 10,500 athletes to take part in the 302 events on the program for the games. The United States has hosted four Summer Olympic Games, more than any other nation. The United Kingdom hosted the 2012 Olympic games, its third Summer Olympic Games, in its capital London, making London the first city to host the Summer Olympic Games three times. Australia, France, Germany and Greece have all hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice. Other countries that have hosted the Summer Olympics are Belgium, China, Canada, Finland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, the Soviet Union and Sweden. In 2016, Rio dc Janeiro will host the first Summer Games in South America. The only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Olympic Games is Great Britain, ranging from one gold in 1904, 1952 and 1996 to fifty-six golds in 1908.

2014 year On the evening of 23 February the eyes of the world turned their gaze once more to the Fisht Olympic Stadium, for the start of the Closing Ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games. Seventeen days earlier the stadium had provided the setting for a wonderful curtain-raiser to Sochi 2014, and the two and a half hour finale proved every bit as special.

To set the mood, a giant rowing boat, representing the Olympic journey, hovered above the stadium in the night sky, as thousands of silver-clad dancers whirled around the stadium. Before the Ceremony officially drew to a close there was still time for one more emotional, and humorous, moment, as a 50-foot bear, one of the Sochi 2014 mascots, took to the stage, winking to crowd before blowing out the Olympic flame with a nod to one of the iconic moments of the Closing Ceremony at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.

Then, at 22h 09 local time, in time honoured fashion, President Bach formally declared the Sochi 2014 Games closed, and paved the way for the Korean hosts of the next edition of the Winter Games to take up the baton.

“I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games closed. In accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in PyeongChang to celebrate with us the 23rd Olympic Winter Games," he said.

As fireworks once again lit up the Sochi night sky, the volunteers and athletes flocked into the middle of the stadium, which was transformed into a giant dance floor, to enjoy a much deserved party.