Not every generation of spectators has shared this level of excitement. In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic; the games drew around ...

The quadrennial celebration of Olympic athletes dates back to 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece. (Heck of a long time ago.) The modern-day version was first held in Athens, Greece, from April 6-15, 1896.

The Olympics were not revived again until 1896, the year of the first modern Olympics. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .

The modern Olympics, however, were created in 1896, with the first edition of the Games being held in Athens. According to the Olympics, the ancient games were held for 250-plus years in Olympia ...

For the first 200 years of the Games, only Greeks participated in the events, but eventually, the participation was open to other countries as well. The modern-day Olympics are a symbol of peace ...

The modern-day Olympic Games are quite different from the ancient ones. Here's when they first started. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 KPMG Women's PGA ⛳ ...

The Olympic flame first appeared in Amsterdam in 1928, and the podium four years later. But, arguably, the Berlin Olympics in 1936, with its display of Nazi pomp and grandeur, did much to give the ...

Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the ...

It may come as no surprise that the first modern Olympics were a men-only affair. The second, in Paris in 1900, included 22 women, and from then on, every Olympic Games has wrestled with whether ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic; the games drew around 250 athletes from 14 countries (this summer’s games include ...

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