On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens after being banned by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I for 1,500 years. King George I of Greece welcomed the crowd of approximately 60,000 spectators and athletes from 13 nations to the competition by saying: "I hereby proclaim the opening of the first international Olympic Games in Athens. » The first Olympic Games took place in the city of Elis in 776 BC. The Olympic Games had existed for at least 500 years. Every four years, the ancient Olympic Games were to be held during a religious festival honoring Zeus, the Greek god. At first, events were limited to running races, but eventually many events were added, including boxing, wrestling, horse and chariot racing, and military competitions. The pentathlon was introduced in 708 BC and featured events such as running, long jump, discus and javelin throws, and wrestling. However, the Olympic Games declined in 393 AD due to the rise of Rome. Theodosius I abolished the games in an effort to suppress paganism in the Roman Empire. During the Renaissance, Europe became fascinated with ancient Greek culture and some organized sports and folk festivals under the name "Olympics". It was not until 1892 that Pierre de Coubertin proposed the idea of ​​the Olympic Games being a major international competition that would take place every four years. Coubertin raised the idea again at the conference on international competition in Paris in June 1894 before 79 delegates who unanimously approved his proposal. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was formed and the first games were scheduled for Athens in 1896. 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, including swimming, weightlifting, track and field, gymnastics, etc. ....of paper......million, various factors caused the budget to increase to more than $51 billion, surpassing the estimated $44 billion cost of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which were the most expensive Olympics in history. A total of 295 medals were awarded at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. Russia received the most medals with 33, followed by Norway, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Germany , Switzerland, Belarus, Austria and France. The design for the Sochi medal was revealed in May 2013. The design was intended to resemble the landscape of Sochi, with one section containing a "patchwork" of diamonds depicting mountains. Those who won gold medals on February 15 received special medals with fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which marked the first anniversary of the event during which pieces of cosmic chunks fell into Lake Chebarkul, in the Ural Mountains, central Russia..