From the first modem Olympics held in Athens in 1896, the Beijing Olympics will be the 29 th Games. There were only 280 people from 14 countries participated the first Olympic Games, but in the last Olympic Games (2004 Athens Olympic Games), the participants increased in size to 11099, from 202 countries and regions.　

This part m ainly i ntroduce s Etegami works about the Athens Olympics, the Sydney Olympics etc, which are still new in our memories.

In Judo, Ryoko Tamura's dream of achieving gold medal came true. Followed by the victory of Tadahiro Nomura, who had won two gold medals successively in previous Olympic Games, Yasuo Inoue and Magoto Takimoto also won gold medals. In marathon, Naoko Takahashi won the first gold medal in women's athletics for Japan. The whole country was excited, and Naoko Takahashi was awarded the Japan National Prize.  

Begin with the Tokyo Olympic Games, which made the nick name “Orient Witch” of Japanese women's volleyball team and the name of “Gymnastics Kingdom   Japan” widespread, let's review the famous matches in the past Olympic and Paralympic Games with etegami works.

Following the new idea that “sports better than surgery” for wounded soldiers who came back from the war, from the 2004 Sydney Games, the Paralympic Games were under the same organizing committee as the Summer Olympics and would be held in the same host city and using the same facilities.