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The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, a small town in Greece
The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, a small town in Greece
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The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, a small town in Greece. Participants in the first Olympiad are said to have run a 200-yard race, but as the Games were held every four years, they expanded in scope. Only Greek amateurs were allowed to participate in this festival in honor of the god Zeus. The event became a religious, patriotic, and athletic occasion where winners were honored with wreaths and special privileges. They were banned in 394 A.D. by Emperor Theodosius, after they became professional circuses and carnivals.
The modern Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896 as a result of the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator whose desire was to promote international understanding through athletics. Nine nations participated in the first Games; over 100 nations currently compete.
The taint of politics and racial controversy, however, has impinged upon the Olympic Games in our epoch. In 1936 Hitler, whose country hosted the Games, affronted Jesse Owens, a black American runner, by refusing to congratulate Owens for the feat of having won four gold medals. In the 1972 Munich Games, the world was appalled by the deplorable murder of eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists. The next Olympic Games in Montreal were boycotted by African nations; in addition, Taiwan Province withdrew. In 1980, following the former Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, sixty-two nations caused great dismay to their athletes by refusing to participate in the Games. The consensus among those nations was that their refusal would admonish the Soviets. [br] The feelings of those athletes whose countries boycotted the 1980 Games could best be described as ______.
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A、diffident
B、angry
C、very happy
D、disappointed
答案
D
解析
细节理解题。boycotted联合抵制,联合拒绝,与本文倒数第二句中的“refusing to participate in the games”意思一致。此句同时指出那些国家拒绝参加1980年奥运会的行为“caused great dismay to their athletes”,即让他们的运动员大为沮丧。
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