Rare old photos: Have you ever seen the first Olympics?
(1) At 3 p.m. on April 6, 1896, King George I of Greece solemnly announced the opening of the first modern Olympic Games. This is the earliest of the previous Olympic months. The opening ceremony was chosen by the hosts on this day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Greek uprising against Turkish rule. After King George I's speech, the audience sang the "Carol to Samarath", a religious hymn-like orchestral piece that enthusiastically eulogized the Olympic Movement and was later selected as the Olympic anthem.
The Marble Stadium in Athens, the main sports ground of the first Olympic Games, was reconstructed from the ruins of the ancient Athenian Stadium. Australia, Bulgaria, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, the United States, France, Chile, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as the host country, were invited to participate in the inaugural Games, with a total of 311 athletes from 13 countries participating. According to records, the International Olympic Committee sent an invitation to the Qing government, but the Qing Dynasty at that time did not know what the Olympic Games were and ignored it. Other Asian and African countries were also unable to accept invitations.
(2) This is the cover of a women's magazine from 1912, and the picture shows Olympic tennis champion Broquedis, Marguerite in action.
(3) The official poster of the 1948 London Olympics.
(4) Sebastian Coe is one of the UK's leading middle-distance runners. Before participating in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, he broke the world records in the 800m, 1500m and 1 mile events in just 42 days.
(5) In 1920, during Prohibition in the United States, people were destroying beer kegs.
(6) In Greenland, in 1890, an Inuit warms his wife's feet.
(7) In 1907, the "lionman" Lionel in his heyday.
(8) On January 19, 1981, in Los Angeles, USA, boxing champion Muhammad Ali heard that a man named Joe was about to jump off a building. Ali immediately went there and persuaded him. Ali shouted to him: You are my brother! I love you and I won't lie to you. Subsequently, the man was dragged into the house and taken to the hospital.
(9) This photograph was taken in 1910 by Australian George Warnister Morley, and the man in the photograph is a horseman in Jiuquan Station, Gansu Province.
(10) In the photograph, a woman with small feet rests one foot on a low stool, and a foreign female missionary is standing and observing, perhaps curious because she first saw this custom.