英语翻译The games were held every four years during August and S

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The games were held every four years during August and September and the word "Olympiad",which referred to the four year intervals between competitions,was commonly used to measure time.The first documented Olympic champion was a man named Coroebus,a cook from Elis who won the sprint race in 776 BC.Historians believe that the games had already existed for at least 500 years prior to that date.The Olympic Games originally featured only one event:a race called the "stade",equal to a distance of about 210 yards.By 728 BC two additional races had been added,comparable to the 400 meter and 1,500 meter races of the modern games.The Olympics came to include wrestling,boxing and the pentathlon,as well as specialized events for soldiers and heralds.It was only in 472 BC that the events were spread out over a period of four to five days,previously they had all taken place on a single day.
Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks,but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great,the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch,Sidon and Alexandria.While the only official prize was a wreath or garland,successful athletes were supported by the governments of their cities and devoted much time to training.Most of the competitors were,in fact,professionals.After the Roman conquest of Greece in the second century BC,the Olympic Games suffered a decline in popularity and importance,but the Games persisted until AD 393,when the Roman emperor Theodosius I ordered their abolition.
The idea of reviving the Olympic Games originated with Baron Pierre de Coubertin,a 29 year old French aristocrat who first publicly raised the issue in 1892.At a conference on international sport held in Paris in 1894,Coubertin managed to convince delegates from 49 organizations representing nine countries to vote in favor of an Olympic revival.His chief allies in this effort were Dimitrios Vikelas of Greece and Professor William M.Sloane of the United States.The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris,but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens,though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.Coubertin and his colleagues of the newly formed International Olympic Committee eventually prevailed,and the first Olympic Games of the modern era were inaugurated by the King of Greece in the first week of April 1896.

奥运会每四年举行一次,在8月和9月和Word “奥林匹克” ,转介到四年的间隔之间的比赛,被普遍用来衡量时间.第一记录的奥运冠军是一个名叫coroebus ,一名厨师从ELI的谁赢得了短跑比赛在公元前776 .历史学家认为,游戏已经存在了至少500年在该日期之前.奥运会的精选原本只有一个事件：一个种族,叫做“比赛” ,相当于一个距离约二百一十码.由公元前728增设两个种族已加入,可比到400米和1500米比赛的现代游戏.奥运来,包括摔跤,拳击和五项,以及专门的活动,为士兵和标志.这是只有在472年,这些活动被分散在一个时期四,五天,以前他们都采取了地方对上一次单日.
参与在奥运会上,原本仅限于免费出生的希腊人,但由于希腊文明的传播所征服的亚历山大大帝,游戏提请参赛者远从安提阿,Sidon和亚历山大.而唯一的官方奖敬献了花圈或花环,成功的运动员的支持,由各国政府自己的城市和花了不少时间去训练.大部分的竞争对手,事实上,专业人士.之后,罗马征服希腊在西元前二世纪,奥运会遭受了下降的受欢迎程度和重要性,但游戏的坚持,直到393的广告,当罗马皇帝狄奥多西一世下令取消.
的思想,振兴奥运会的起源与男爵皮埃尔德顾拜旦,一个29岁的法国贵族谁第一个公开提出这个问题,在1892年.在一次会议关于国际体育在巴黎举行的1894年,顾拜旦设法说服与会代表从49组织代表9个国家投赞成票,一个奥林匹克的复兴.他的主要盟国,在这方面的努力被名叫帕帕维凯拉斯希腊和教授威廉米又因的美国.主办单位原来的计划,第一届现代奥运会1900年在巴黎,但后来决定动议日期提前到1896年,并改变场地雅典,虽然当地政府的希腊首都最初敌视的想法.顾拜旦和他的同事对新成立的国际奥林匹克委员会的最终占了上风,和第一届奥运会上的现代时代的揭幕,由国王在希腊的第一个星期,1896年4月.