Saturday, May 31, 2008

Belt Buckle Blanks Gold



modern Olympic Games were created by Pierre de Coubertin, who wanted to reclaim the ideals of classical Greece Sports Expressing its utmost in this phrase known to all: "The important thing is not to win but to compete."
The First Modern Olympics Games was held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
The first Olympic flame was lit in games played in Amsterdam in 1928, transferred by relay runners.
In 1960, he won his gold medal the first black African (Ethiopian), Abebe Bikila, who won the marathon, having run barefoot. Four years later he repeated the feat in Tokyo, but zapatillasEl September 5, 1972, the world is shaken by the terrorist attack in Munich'72. The group Black September the PLO murdered eleven members of the Israeli delegation. In Montreal 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scored 10 points.
On March 8, 1999 was presented to the public the design of the Olympic torch. The rings of the Olympic symbol represent the five continents intertwined.

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