In 1986, the IOC decided to hold the Summer and Winter Games on different years. 1992 was the last year when the Summer and Winter Games were held. Starting in 1994 with the Lillehammer Olympics, the events are now held every two years, alternating Winter and Summer Games. Mostly to spread the expenses for countries, it also helped the Winter Games gain more popularity. Just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Olympic officials take a similar oath.
An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus that was displayed at Olympia. During the truce, wars were suspended, armies were prohibited from entering Elis or threatening the Games, and legal disputes and the carrying out of death penalties were forbidden. The Olympic truce was faithfully observed, for the most part, although the historian Thucydides recounts that the Lacedaemonians were banned from participating in the Games, after they attacked a fortress in Lepreum, a town in Elis, during the truce. The Lacedaemonians complained that the truce had not yet been announced at the time of their attack. But the Eleans fined them two thousand minae, two for each soldier, as the law required.