The Olympic and Paralympics Values.

The Olympic and Paralympics Values.
People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people healthier keeps them fit more organized and better disciplined. Besides, sports helps to develop a strong character. Your physical and mental level rises up.
Some people go in for sports for their heath and some for professional aims. There are a lot of stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, football fields in each town. In every school pupils spend much time going in for sports. Every year there are a lot of sports competitions, sports days and Olympiads.
Once in four years the Olympic Games take place in different countries. This is the greatest sports competition of the best sportsmen in the world. Famous sportsmen are proud to participate in the Games.
The tradition of the Olympic Games runs back to ancient Greece. It was a great athletic festival of wrestling, foot-racing, discus throwing and others.
In those times numerous states on the territory of modern Greece often waged wars. The ruler of one of these wanted to live in peace and he decided to organized athletic games. There was no war in the country for these days. From that time all the games were held every four years in Olympics. All wars were stopped.
The Games cannot take place in a country which is at war. I think it’s one of the values of the Games.
Thanks to Baron de Coubertin the first Modern Olympic Games took place in Greece in 1896.
Five rings of the emblem of the Olympic Games represent the unions of the five continents and the meeting of the athletes of the world at the Olympic Games. The Olympic Greed reads: «Faster, higher, stronger». I think it means that people must develop themselves physically and mentally and the Olympic motto is «hot to win but to take part» because all people can go in for sports, but not all of them can become champions. But the main thing is to help young people to be healthy and strong.
Along with the Olympic Games the Paralympics Games are held. Overcoming the perennial stereotypes about people with disabilities, Ludwig Guttmann stated: «It is important not what is lost, it is important what is left». Thanks to the efforts of Guttmann, who has proven that sport for people with disabilities creates the preconditions for a successful life restoring mental balance, allaying return to normal life, despite physical problems in 1960 in Rome where held international competition disabled after a few weeks after the Olympic XVII Games. Physically healthy athletes is Olympic sports arenes have been replaced by people with courageous character. Graphic Symbol of international Paralympic movement became red, blue, and green hemisphere, symbolizing the mind, body, stubborn spirit.
To my mind the greatest value of sport is «to compete for life, peace and friendship not for fame and money».