Chapter 8 The audience was crying

Olympia makes it hard to let go. After such a long journey back to Athens, I even found an Olympic Hotel to stay in. In order to continue the feeling of Olympia, we went to the modern Olympic Stadium in Athens.This is the starting point of the modern Olympic movement. The world's first modern Olympic Games was held here in 1896.The stadium is in the shape of a horseshoe, just like the one end of our common stadium is cut off, and the cross-section faces the street, which is very strange and spectacular.All auditoriums are made of marble, which is as white as new after more than a hundred years.

The 1996 Olympic Games coincided with the centenary of the modern Olympic movement. The Greeks thought that the modern world has nothing to do with us. The centennial Olympic Games should be held in the place where it took place, right?They wishfully calculated that they would be able to win the right to host that session again. That night, there were no seats left in the stadium, and they all brought fireworks and champagne. Voice. However, when they finally heard that the winner was Atlanta, USA, they froze for a moment, and then the audience burst into tears. In fact, not only the audience, but the whole of Greece was crying in those days.Both the state leaders and the public have said that Greece will no longer bid for the Olympics. This seemingly ordinary sentence is full of great sorrow, just like an old mother who can’t get her son back and announces that she will cut off her son. Family relationship.

Strangely, such an announcement did not cause much shock in the world.Today's world is so realistic that no one cares about historical blood and cultural ethics any more.The Greek sighed a few times that Coca-Cola had defeated the Olympic spirit, and then decided to abandon the previous announcement and re-call the son who had been away from home for many years.As a result, we know that Greece applied for the right to host the 2004 Olympic Games.Another newer and larger Olympic Stadium was completed in Athens, but it is estimated that the opening ceremony will be held at the venue of the first Olympic Games more than a hundred years ago. As for the torch, of course it should be held in Olympia 2,500 years ago. ignite.The performance at the opening ceremony, I don't think it needs to be fancy, as long as it is full of ancient articles, Greece has this capital.

Some people around me are asking: Can such a simple Athens, where even a five-star hotel is hard to find, be able to afford an Olympic Games?I think so, and the reason is that 2,500 years ago, many countries did not know where, and Greece had organized large-scale sports competitions in an orderly manner.At that time, the various states of Greece agreed that any war would make way for sports competitions.So far, many competition rules have been formulated at that time.This shocking early organizational genius cannot be completely wiped out in this race and this land. October 2, 1999, Athens, Greece, overnight at the Royal Olympic Hotel