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The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad , first held in 1896 , is an international multi - sport event that is hosted by a different city every four years . The most recent Olympics were held in ___MASK62___ , Brazil . The International Olympic Committee organizes the games and oversees the host city ' s preparations . In each Olympic event , gold medals are awarded for first place , silver medals are awarded for second place , and bronze medals are awarded for third ; this tradition began in 1904 . The Winter Olympic Games were created due to the success of the Summer Olympics . The 2008 Summer Olympic Games , officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as ___MASK33___ 2008 , was a major international multi - sport event that took place in ___MASK33___ , China , from 8 to 24 August 2008 . A total of 10 , 942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) competed in 28 sports and 302 events ( a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games ). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games . It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in East Asia and Asia , after Tokyo , Japan , in 1964 and ___MASK30___ , South Korea , in 1988 . ___MASK51___ , officially the Federal Republic of ___MASK51___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK51___ is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK51___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is ___MASK17___ . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Rhineland - Palatinate ( German : " Rheinland - Pfalz ") is one of the 16 states ( German : " Länder ", lit . " countries " however better translated as " state ") of the Federal Republic of ___MASK51___ . It has an area of and about four million inhabitants . Its state capital is Mainz . Rhineland - Palatinate is located in western ___MASK51___ and borders Belgium , Luxembourg and France , and the German states of North Rhine - Westphalia , ___MASK7___ , Baden - Württemberg and Saarland . Jan - Peter Peckolt ( born 4 May 1981 in ___MASK14___ ) is a German sailor . He won a bronze medal in 49er class at the 2008 Summer Olympics . East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent , which can be defined in either geographical or ethno - cultural terms . Geographically and geopolitically , it includes China , ___MASK65___ , and Macao ; Mongolia and Taiwan ; North and South Korea ; and ___MASK19___ ; it covers about , or about 28 % of the Asian continent , about twice the area of Europe . ___MASK30___ (  )  officially the ___MASK30___ Special City  is the capital and largest metropolis of the Republic of Korea ( commonly known as South Korea ), forming the heart of the ___MASK30___ Capital Area , which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province , the world ' s 16th largest city . It is home to over half of all South Koreans along with 678 , 102 international residents . ___MASK78___ , officially ___MASK78___ Metropolis , is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures . The Greater ___MASK78___ Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world . It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government . ___MASK78___ is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands . Formerly known as Edo , it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters . It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of ___MASK9___ in 1868 ; at that time Edo was renamed ___MASK78___ . ___MASK78___ Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . ___MASK56___ (, Palatine German : " Monnem " or " Mannem ") is a city in the southwestern part of Germany , the third - largest in the German state of Baden - Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . ___MASK56___ is among the twenty largest cities in Germany , with a 2015 population of approximately 305 , 000 inhabitants . The city is at the centre of the larger densely populated Rhine - Neckar Metropolitan Region which has a population of 2 , 400 , 000 and is Germany ' s eighth - largest metropolitan region . The Rhine (, , ) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps , forms part of the Swiss - Austrian , Swiss - Liechtenstein , Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border , then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the ___MASK12___ . The largest city on the river Rhine is ___MASK75___ , Germany , with a population of more than 1 , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest river in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about . ___MASK21___ is a university city situated on the river Neckar in south - west ___MASK51___ . At the 2015 census , its population was 156 , 257 , with roughly a quarter of its population being students . ___MASK14___ am Rhein is a city in Rhineland - Palatinate , ___MASK51___ . It is located on the Rhine river opposite ___MASK56___ . With ___MASK56___ , Heidelberg and the surrounding region , it forms the Rhine Neckar Area .