Olympic Games (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)

The Olympic Games are a major international sporting event featuring both summer and winter events, with thousands of competitors taking part. The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games. Since 2008, host cities are contracted to manage both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games, where athletes who have a physical disability compete. The organization is headed by the International Olympic Committee, which was founded in 1890 after the first games held in Athens, Greece to become the governing body of the Olympic movement, originally lead by French philanthropist Pierre de Coubertin.

The Olympic Movement has resulted in bringing the nations of the world closer together through competitive sports, and has become a major televised event around the world. The Olympics, however, have also been in the center of political events, including the cancellation of the games in 1912, 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the world wars, and the 1952, 1956, 1984 and 1988 events being boycotted due to the tensions of the Cold War.