According to the legend, it was Heracles who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every four years. A legend persists that after Heracles completed his twelve labors, he built the Olympic stadium as an honor to Zeus. The most widely accepted date for the inception of the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at Olympia, of the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in 776 BC.

The major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this

includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. There are winter and summer paralympic

games, which are held immediately following their respective olympic games.

The present formal explanation for the name "paralympic" is that it derives from

the greek preposition παρά, pará ("beside" or "alongside") and thus refers to a competition held

in parallel with the olympic games.

●Freestyle (essentially, front crawl);●Backstroke;●Breaststroke ;●Butterfly.

●Individual Medley events;●Medley Relay events;●Freestyle Relay events.

●At the first few modern Olympic Games, Swimming events were held in open water

●Women’s events were introduced at the Stockholm 1912 Games.

The Olympic Rings are five interlocking rings that stand for the five original continents, (Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe) and the athletes from around the world.

The colours of the rings are blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively. They were chosen because at least one of these colours is found on the flag of every nation.

The Winter Games had never been hosted anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere even though there are suitable locations in New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and Chile. It's not the lack of snow but the lack of infrastructure to support such a huge event. At the 1904 Paris Games the winners were awarded paintings instead of medals as the French believed that they would be more valuable. The first woman to light the Olympic Flame at an opening ceremony was Mexican hurdler Norma Basilio at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. World Wars led to the cancellation of the 1916, 1940, and 1944 Games. Also, large boycotts during the Cold War limited participation in the 1980 and 1984 Games.