08 Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years. The most recent Summer Olympics were the 2004 Games in Athens and the most recent Winter Olympics were the 2006 Games in Turin.

Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. The IOC was founded in 1894 on the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC’s Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece. The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. As of 2006, the Winter Olympics were competed in 84 events in 7 sports.