Olympics

The Olympics are a quadrennial sporting event that is renowned as a method to briefly unite the world's nations into one. Taking place at a location in a country selected by the previous host, athletes and spectators from most world countries come to participate together, sometimes in numbers large enough to even double the host country's population. The typical Olympics consists of multiple games for athletes to participate in, with each game featuring it's own distinct medals for top placers.

History:
The concept of the Olympics originated in 1896, when New Valan was looking for a way to resolve conflicts "more peacefully than war", mostly due to their weak status at the time. The state came up with the idea to hold a group of sport matches with competitors from every country in a single place. Based on the performance of the international athletes, they and their countries would be rewarded with medals and boasting rights. Although their first Games, held in that year, didn't attract many countries, the PRA was chosen to run the next Olympics 4 years later, in 1900 and had more success.

The 1904 Games, held another 4 years later, marked a watershed, however, as the Fictian Empire was selected to host the year's activities. This year featured an extremely high turnout consisting of every country with an active government and had more organization and games than the last two. This proved that the Valanian idea had much potential, and set in stone future versions of the Olympics being held every 4 years. The planned 1908 Games, bestowed to the RCM, were unfortunately cancelled due to the Scourge however, before New Canciona held the 1912 ones. These games also had a successful turnout and were highly organized, and introduced the concept of unusual sports that made the year's games unusual, but extremely entertaining. This successful concept is very likely to be repeated in future games just to make things a little different

In 1912, the "Olympics Committee" (a fake puppet group made by the Fictians to entitle them to set up official Olympics) declared that there would now be two types of Games, summer (being held on the original 4-year schedule and consisting of warm-weather games) and winter (being held on a new shifted 4-year schedule and consisting of cold-weather games). Together, this meant that Olympics would now be held every 2 years, even though the variety of games being held would alternate. The first Winter Games are scheduled to be held in Hyrule during 1914, and appear to be the most humorous version of the Games yet.

Games:
Here are the Games held in every Olympics to date:


 * Warship Battle (1896)
 * Tech Race (1896)
 * Marathon (1896, 1904, 1912)
 * Budenball (1896)
 * Swimming (1900, 1904)
 * Archery (1900, 1904, 1912)
 * Track and Field (1900, 1904)
 * Gymnastics (1900, 1904, 1912)
 * Fencing (1900, 1904, 1912)
 * Sailing (1900, 1904, 1912)
 * Tug of War (1900, 1904)
 * Equestrian (1900, 1904)
 * Cycling (1900, 1904)
 * Rowing (1900)
 * Polo (1900)
 * Rugby (1900)
 * Cricket (1900)
 * Ice-Skating (1904)
 * Table Tennis (1904)
 * Button-Breaking (1912)
 * Swimming In Formation (1912)
 * Pole Vaulting (1912)
 * Rock Climbing (1912)
 * Barrel Racing (1912)
 * 100-Meters Standing Still (1912)
 * Food Fight (1912)

Olympic Games Held to Date:
So far, 4 separate Olympic Games have been held, as follows:

The 1908 Olympic Games were expected to be held in the RCM, but the Scourge pandemic in that year forced them to be canceled. Since the RCM was destroyed in World War I soon after, it never got a second chance to host the Olympics.
 * 1896 New Valan Olympics (HiArch City)
 * 1900 PRA Olympics (Spirova)
 * 1904 Fictia Olympics (Capital City)


 * 1912 New Canciona Olympics (New Ricroal)
 * 1914 Hyrule Olympics (Arkangelsk) (Winter)

Planned Olympic Games:
The following is a lineup of planned Olympic Games:

Summer:

Winter:
 * 1916 in Hawboline-Scevia
 * 1920 in Universia
 * 1924 in Eleutheria
 * 1926 in Avaconia


 * 1914 in Hyrule
 * 1918 in Fictia
 * 1920 in Empyrea
 * 1924 in Okhostia

If you'd like to host the Olympic Games in an untaken time slot, ask @Fictia.