Adoration Adoration (Latin) is to give homage or worship to someone or something. ~wikipedia.org
Tranquility The quality of calm experienced in places with mainly natural features and activities, free from disturbance from man-made ones. As such it is a public good and can be seen as an indicator of environmental quality. ~wikipedia.org
Existence The world we are aware of through our senses, but in philosophy the word has a more specialized meaning, and is often contrasted with essence. Philosophers investigate questions such as "What exists?" "How do we know?" "To what extent are the senses a reliable guide to existence?" "What is the meaning, if any, of assertions of the existence of categories, ideas, and abstractions. ~wikipedia.org
Paris 1924 These Games were better known as the Olympic Games of Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, the "Chariots of Fire" Games, immortalised on the silver screen by Hugh Hudson.
This is the story of two men who run...not to run...but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals...Except their honor. The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics. This Film was released 1981 and the instrumental theme written and recorded by Vangelis was used as the theme for the 1984 Winter Olympics
Philippines offers $220,000 for first gold - The Philippine government and the private sector are offering $220,000 to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal. The Philippines has not won an Olympic gold since its first games, at Paris in 1924. The most recent medal of any color was silver in boxing in Atlanta in 1996.
Weissmuller at the 1924 Paris Olympics, where he won three gold medals. Has the famous role as Tarzan.
Herman Brix A silver medalist in the 1928 Olympics, Herman Brix starred as Tarzan in 1935 serial The New Adventures of Tarzan. Later in his career, changed his name to Bruce Bennett and went on to act in many hit films, including Mildred Pierce.
Buster Crabbe A gold medalist in the 1932 Olympics, Buster Crabbe starred as Tarzan only once, in the 1933 film Tarzan the Fearless. Later in his career, he gained fame as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and he also acted in a string of westerns.
Lou Gehrig, fifth to play for the lead role in Tarzan's Revenge (193,
The Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger), was used for the first time. This was originally used as a motto by the Union des Societies Francaises de Sports Athletiques, a French sporting federation whose founding members included Pierre de Coubertin.
MYTH Ancient Olympic victors received only a wreath of olive leaves as a prize.
REALITY Although Olympic victors did receive an olive wreath as a prize at Olympia, it is known that victors’ commonly received other more lucrative rewards when returning to their home city. For instance according to Plutarch, Life of Solon 23, an Olympic victor who was a citizen of Athens could expect to receive in the year 600 B.C. a cash award of 500 drachmai, a literal fortune.
The Olympics date back to ancient Greek times, but the Olympic logo we know and recognize today has been around less than one hundred years. Frenchmen Pierre de Coubertin designed the logo in 1913 for the Paris Congress of the Olympic Movement. The logo was first found on a flag and had five interlocking rings–one for each continent represented in the Olympic Movement. Six colors were included as well, black, yellow, blue, red, green, and white, which were colors present in each nation represented by the organization. No ring is “assigned” to any particular continent.
The popular account that de Coubertin found stones carved with an ancient Olympic logo which he immitated in the modern rendition is false, according to an article published in Olympic Review Magazine in 1992. Though carved stones were found bearing the logo, they were created for the torch relay from Greece to Germany in 1936. They were later mistaken for ancient artifacts, according to the article.
In addition to the Olympic logo, most host cities also design their own logo as well.
A series of bronze tripods have been found at Olympia, some of which may date to the 9th century BC, and it has been suggested that these tripods may in fact be prizes for some of the early events at Olympia. Source: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athen.
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