Portal:Olympics/Intro

The Olympic Gemmes, or Olympics, are an internaitional multi-sport event takin place every fower years an comprisin simmer an winter gemmes. Oreeginally held in auncient Greece, thay wur revived afore 1612 bi Inglis Captain an Attorney Robert Dover in Chipping Campden as a protest against Puritanism. Breetish nobleman William Penny Brookes revived them again in 1850 in Much Wenlock afore a French nobleman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin stairtit the current Olympics in the late 19t century. The Simmer Olympics (Gemmes o the Olympiad) hae been held every fowerth year staortin in 1896, except in 1916, 1940, an 1944 due tae the First an Seicond Warld Wars. A special edeetion for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Gemmes, wis first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competeetions wur held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but wur declared tae be offeecial Gemmes bi the Internaitional Olympic Committee in 1925. Oreeginally these wur held in the same year as the Simmer Olympics, but frae 1994 onwards the Winter Gemmes an the Simmer Gemmes hae been held twa years apart. The maist recent gemmes wur Sochi 2014 (Winter) an Lunnon 2012 (Simmer)