Published 13:37 IST, March 25th 2020

Why are the Olympics held every four years? The history of sport's biggest event

Why are the Olympics held every four years? The event is held every four years to respect the Ancient Games, as per the history of the Olympics.

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Olympic Games is one of biggest sporting spectacles in world of sports. event is also platform where young and best athletes around world get a chance to perform and win medals for ir country. original Olympics were held at Olympia every four years and since n, many countries have gone on to host biggest sporting spectacle in world. gap of four years is a huge amount of time for athletes and fans to be part of event. question, n, which is in every fan's mind is, why are Olympics held every four years?

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Why are Olympics held every four years? History of Olympics 

history of Olympics goes back 3,000 years to Peloponnese in Ancient Greece. In history of Olympics, event is held every four years to respect ancient origins of Olympic Games. In history of Olympics, four-year interval is also called "Olympi". According to information regarding  history of Olympics, in 1894, Pierre de Coubertin launched his plan to revive Ancient Games, and in 1896 first Games of modern era were held in Ans.

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Why are Olympics held every four years? History about Olympi 

Talking about history of Olympics, during early years of Olympics, term Olympi was used for dating purposes at time (time was counted in Olympis rar than years). Today, an Olympi begins on first of January of first year and ends on thirty-first of December of fourth year. 

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Why are Olympics held every four years? Tokyo Olympics postponed

With answer to "why are Olympics held every four years" done and dusted, re is an update on upcoming Olympics which were scheduled to be held in Tokyo. w that Tokyo Olympics is postponed, this would  first time that event will t be held due to health concerns. 

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13:37 IST, March 25th 2020