Olympic Games, international sports competition, held every four years at a different site,/in which athletes from different nat

Olympic Games, international sports competition, held every four years at a different site,/in which athletes from different nations compete against each other in a variety of sports./There are two types of Olympics, the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics./Through 1992 they were held in the same year,/but beginning in 1994 they were rescheduled so that they are held in alternate even-numbered years./For example, the Winter Olympics were held in 1994 and the Summer Olympics in 1996./The Winter Olympics were next held in 1998,/and the Summer Olympics will next occur in 2000./The Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece, in 1896./The program for the 1896 Games, comprising only summer events (the Winter Olympics were not established until 1924),/included about 300 athletes from fewer than 15 countries competing in 43 events in nine different sports./In contrast, the program 100 years later for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, /included more than 10,000 athletes from more than 190 countries competing in 271 events in 29 different sports./