Question
Here is the question : AFTER ATHENS IN 1896, WHAT CITY HOSTED THE SECOND OLYMPIC GAMES?
Option
Here is the option for the question :
- London, UK
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Rome, Italy
- Paris, France
The Answer:
And, the answer for the the question is :
Explanation:
Held as part of the 1900 World’s Fair, the Games of the II Olympiad had 997 competitors taking part in 19 different sports. It was also the first Olympic Games to feature female athletes; a total of 22 of them competed for medals in a variety of sports, including tennis and croquet. In addition, there was a version of bocce, golf, and the tug-of-war game that was played back then. We can only hazard a guess as to what it might be like to take in a match of tug of war at one of today’s Olympic Stadiums. How drastically things have shifted!
Paris, France hosted the second modern Olympic Games in 1900 after Athens, Greece in 1896. The 1900 Paris Olympics were held to coincide with the World’s Fair celebrating city’s role hosting the 1889 Exposition Universelle. They represented France’s emergence as a global power, ambition as a center of arts, science and culture, and vision of Paris as a ‘universal city’ for peace and progress.
The 1900 Paris Olympics were the first to make use of an international network of railways to transport athletes, spectators and goods across borders. Over 4000 athletes from 12 nations participated, competing in 280 events across 23 different disciplines in sports like athletics, cycling, swimming, tennis, weightlifting and football. The United States won the most gold medals with 43, followed by France with 40 golds. Many saw the Olympics as a rally for peace between rival nations in an era of imperial expansion and conflict.
The 1900 Olympics influenced architecture, design, tourism, and survivorship of tradition into the modern age. New sports stadiums, grand boulevards, metro rail extensions and artworks shaped Paris itself into an eternal playground and arena for glory. They sparked remains an enduring icon of France’s ‘Belle Époque’ as its cultural and political zenith on the world stage. The games also had significant impact on rights of women athletes, as 1900 was first time separate women’s events were held in athletics, swimming and tennis.
The 1900 Olympics embodied Parisian ambition, vision and passion for spectacle. They displayed France at the pinnacle of sophistication, global influence and technological progress, with passionate crowds filling newly built grand stands for a festival of national pride and prestige. The games have since become part of the city’s history and identity, remembered fondly for celebrating moments of triumph, expressive joy and belief in progress as much as sportsmanship or nationality.
Paris’s story with 1900 Olympics highlights how sport can become spectacle, and spectacle itself an act of politics. It represents vision, magic and a sense of destiny made all the stronger by reality outstripping imagination at every turn. The 1900 games forged visions of a ‘New World’ through athletics, one transcending divisions born of war or nations turning their eyes westward at last to see their own reflections in the mirrored sea.
Paris’s tale is one of forging glory from grit and magic from belief against formidable odds. It proves how little things can become great wonders by sharing dreams that olden voices may deem foolish or ambitions mad or foolish. Paris reminds us to see grandeur not just in scale but purpose, and meaning even in madness or excess. Most of all, its story highlights boldness of vision and strength of spirit in following where fanciful hopes may lead. What began as a vision held Paris rapt, and in its wake left a city forever lined in light.
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