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Champion who paints a gourd ladle

Garrett from Princeton University in the United States has never thrown a discus, but he was lucky to win the championship. Garrett loves art and sports, and admires the discus thrower, an immortal work of the Italian Renaissance. When he learned that the Olympic Games would be held in Athens, he really wanted to take part in the competition. A friend said that he had great arm strength and could take part in the discus competition. However, the United States had not started this project at that time, and Garrett didn't even know the shape of discus, let alone the throwing method. So he made a discus himself according to the proportion of Milon's sculpture human body to discus, and simulated the posture of discus thrower. He fiddled with it casually at home and hurried to Athens. It was not until the competition that he found that the discus was so light (the ancient discus was far less heavy than it is now), and it was both light and convenient, so he threw 59.15m without any effort and won the championship easily. The coaches and athletes on the field were dumbfounded and deeply puzzled by the amazing performance of this player, while the audience cheered and applauded for this novice American player. Later, he won the first place in the shot put competition.

Strange starting posture

On the track field, the dust is flying and laughter bursts. On the slightly sloping track, a 1-meter race is being held. Among the five finalists, an American athlete, Tuo Burke, is wearing a distinctive vest and shorts. Compared with other athletes wearing knee-length shorts, Burke's costume attracted jeers from the audience, and the women in the audience even hid it. In the final, some athletes stood almost upright, some bent down, and only Burke took a starting posture that was similar to squatting, which aroused the audience's curiosity and laughter. However, Burke turned a deaf ear to this and won the first 1-meter champion in the modern Olympic Games in 12 seconds. Burke also won the 4-meter race in 54.2 seconds, and the audience exclaimed: "Scud, the first Scud".

Tourist Champion

Tennis was listed as an official event in the first Olympic Games, but at that time, tennis was not very popular and the level of professional players was not very high. The first Olympic tennis match was held near the pillars of Cupid Temple in Athens. Boland, a student of Oxford University in England, happened to be traveling in Athens. He was a tennis enthusiast. He always carried a racket with him when he went out to practice. The match was very hot. He also wanted to try his hand, so he signed up on the spot and swung his racket into battle. As a result, he was invincible all over the court and became the first tennis singles champion in Olympic history.

Traun, a student of the German Dresden Institute of Technology, was a track and field player and a tennis enthusiast. He participated in the track and field competition. He was eliminated in the preliminaries and met Boland by chance in Athens. Boland invited him to pair up for doubles. As a result, they won the doubles championship. Their unexpected gains during the trip are really enviable.

people are small, ghosts are big

Schumann, a small German athlete, won the wrestling competition in the first Olympic Games. On a battlefield in Panadnay Stadium in Athens, he knocked down five players from four countries. At that time, there was no weight class in the competition, which was similar to China's "gallants".

Schumann is light, but those athletes who weigh more than tens of pounds are not his opponents. He fell to the ground one by one, and as a result, he won the Greco-Roman wrestling championship. However, his talent is not limited to this. In the gymnastics competition, he won the vault champion again. In the horizontal bar and parallel bars team competitions, he made great contributions to the German team's championship. Schumann was the athlete who won the most championships in the first Olympic Games. It's really a small ghost.

Dispute over the venue

The game ended, but there was another scene of fierce dispute. The king of Greece proposed that the Olympic Games is a part of Greek national culture and inseparable from Greece, and Athens should become a permanent venue, otherwise it would be "an open plunder of the great and brilliant Greek culture." Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, disagreed with this view. He advocated that it should be held in different countries and regions in turn to break the limitation of a country's "monopoly", so as to reflect the international nature of the Olympic Games and make the Olympic Games more vibrant. Thanks to the support of most members of the National Olympic Committee, Coubertin's opinion was finally settled. The Olympic Games can be held in different countries in the world in turn.

The first champion of the Greeks

Among the 285 athletes from 13 countries who participated in the first modern Olympic Games, the host country Greece accounted for 197, but by the end of the competition, the Greek athletes did not even win a championship. The only hope left is in the final marathon.

The marathon * * * was attended by 25 athletes, and Athens residents watched it almost in the streets, which was very lively. In order to show the grandeur of the Greek government, the special cavalry led the way, and the place where the cavalry passed was dusty. The athletes found it difficult to breathe, and many people quit the game halfway. The starting point of the race is on a bridge called Marathon Town, and the whole journey is about 4 kilometers. This is the first official race of the longest distance running in the world. When the runners run to a small village called Bikani, the French runners are a big step ahead, and a few people can't run any more, so they are helped down.

In the half-way, American Blake took the lead, followed by French and Australian players. When we arrived at Kawati village, it was uphill. Several leading players are exhausted, and some even walk instead of running. At this time, the Greek player Spiridon Ruiz quietly caught up from behind. At 3 kilometers, the former leading French player withdrew from the race, but Ruiz ran more and more vigorously, and the Australian player kept a distance of 25 meters behind him. But not long after, the Australian players also failed and withdrew from the competition. It seems that no one can compete with Ruiz.

The game lasted nearly three hours, and the Greek king was very anxious in the box of the stadium, when the messenger came to report a good news: Spiridon Ruiz, a Greek player, had approached the stadium. When he was the first to run into the arena, the audience was boiling and excited, and King George I couldn't sit still and stood up to watch. Ruiz has been exhausted from running, but with the enthusiasm of his compatriots, he still keeps a firm pace. In the last few meters, Crown Prince Constantine and Prince George excitedly accompanied him to the finish line. After crossing the finish line, Ruiz bowed to the king, who also stepped down from the viewing platform to meet the victorious hero. People cheered and shouted, and poured into the stadium to lift Ruiz. Thank him for winning the championship for Greece. Because the marathon was set up to commemorate the legendary story that the ancient Greek hero Felizdis ran from Marathon to Athens to win the news. In the first modern Olympic Games, it was of great significance for the Greeks to win the championship of this event.

The first king to participate in the Olympic Games was King Philip II of Macedonia. In 356 years, this king was far ahead in the carriage race of the Olympic Games and won two commemorative coins, which is also the earliest existing Olympic commemorative coin. After Rome ruled Greece, the great dictator Emperor Neron was eager to participate in the Olympic Games. He advanced the date of the Olympic Games by one year, held the Olympic Games in 67 AD, and personally participated in the carriage race. When other contestants heard that Neron was coming to compete with them, they retreated one after another. Emperor Neron rode alone and became another champion after Philip II.

Sparta, which has a good sports tradition, also has a noteworthy figure, Princess Kunika. She defied the ban that women were not allowed to participate in the Olympic Games at that time and bravely participated in the Olympic Games, becoming the first female champion in the ancient Olympic Games.

The dignitary who won the honor for the first time in the modern Olympic Games was Prince Olaf of Norway. In 1928, he won the sailing competition in Amsterdam Olympic Games. In 1957, he succeeded to the throne as king of Norway.

It is better to lose one's school status in order to win the championship

The first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Connolly, an ancient language major at Harvard University in the United States, was eager to try after receiving the news, but the school thought that his participation in the competition would break the student status management system and oppose his participation. He did not listen to the school's advice and resolutely went to Athens. The Olympic Games started with the triple jump, in which seven athletes from five countries competed. Connolly became the first champion in modern Olympic history with a score of 13.71 meters. When he returned to China with great honor, Harvard University expelled him for breaking the school rules. Connolly did not give up engaging in sports training, and made great efforts to become a well-known journalist and writer, and became close friends with his alumnus and the 32nd President of the United States, Roosevelt. In 1949, Harvard University corrected its mistakes and awarded Connolly an honorary doctorate at the age of 8 in recognition of his contribution to the modern Olympic movement.

Floating pumpkins compete for the first place across the icy water

When the first modern Olympic Games were held, there was no swimming pool, so the venue for swimming competition became a big problem. Everyone is arguing about this. Finally, it was decided to do it in the cold sea of Zia Bay near Pileus.

The lanes of the "swimming pool" can be called a unique skill, and pumpkins floating on the water are used as lane markers. The swimming distance has not been measured, and it is estimated by feeling. Nine people signed up for the 12-meter race, and when they reached the finish line, they found that only five people persisted. The method of the competition is even more amazing. First, the athletes are carried off the coast like a small boat. When the starter sees that the distance is almost the same, he orders the athletes to swim back to the shore, free to play, and rank them according to the order of arrival at the shore.

Helping others is the first champion. Second

The 1-kilometer cycling race in the first Olympic Games was held on the playground instead of on the road. Athletes have to make 3 laps on the court. Flaaming, a French player, has been in the lead since the start, pulling his opponent down several times, so it seems that there is no big problem to win the championship. Suddenly, he found that the Greek Coletis stopped. It turned out that the car was broken. At that time, it was not allowed to change the car, and if it was not repaired, it would have to quit the race. Flaaming immediately stopped to help the Greek racer fix the car, and then got back on the trip. In the end, he won the championship in 3 hours, 8 minutes and 19 seconds!