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Olympic games were held in Olympia [350 kms west of Athens] since 776 BC until 395 AD, every 4 years and were dedicated to Zeus.

In modern times [1896] the Olympic games were relaunched and the first event was held in Athens Greece.

Athens had the honor to host the Olympic Games for a second time in the year 2004 [August 13 - 29].

The first Modern Day Olympics were also held in Athens in 1896.

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Where were the 1894 Olympic games held?

Evangelos Zappas, a wealthy Greek philanthropist, sponsored the first modern revival of the Olympic Games.The first modern international Olympic Games was held in an Athens city square in 1859. Zappas paid for the refurbishment of the ancient Panathenian Stadium. This first modern international Olympic Games to be hosted in a stadium was hosted there in 1870, followed by a second 1875. The same stadium was refurbished a second time and used for the Athens 1896 Games. The revival of the Olympic Games, sponsored by Zappas was a dedicated Olympic Games composed of athletes from two countries: Greece and the Ottoman Empire.


Where is the 2012 Olympic Games in London?

There was no Olympics in 2011. The Summer Olympics are held every four years and the Winter Olympics are held every four years. However, there is an Olympics held every other year because the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics are held two years apart in alternating even-numbered years. However, there was a Special Olympics held in 2011. The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games was held in Athens, Greece from June 25 to July 4, 2011.


Is there a Greek God of the Olympics?

The ancient Olympics were held in honor of the Greek god Zeus, primarily.


What happened to the olympic sites after the ancient games stopped?

I am a recent college grad with a degree in history, whose concentration was in ancient Greece and Rome, so I am by no means an expert. Anyway, here is what I've found on the subject. Unlike today's games, the ancient games were held every four years at the same place, Olympia, Greece, which was a site dedicated to Zeus. The games were held in his honor. They were founded in the year 776 BC and continued every four years until A.D. 426, when they banned by the Christian Emperor Theodosius II of Rome (as Greece had been annexed by the Roman Empire centuries earlier), because they were concidered pagan. He then had the site with all its athletic facilities and temples destroyed. The site remained devoyed of any real activity until it was rediscovered in 1875. Here are a couple of sites that I've found which may provide you with more information. The first is from the the part of the United Nations which oversees all world heritage sites. It has a great gallery, but the info on the site s sparce. The second is from a travel agency. Some of the facts are contradictory to what I know (for instance, one of my books says that there were some young women's footraces held in the stadium, while the website says that women were thrown off a cliff if they even tried to enter the complex), but the dates were correct. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/517 http://www.greecetravel.com/olympia/ I should also mention that one of the ancient which was used for (I believe) the discuss in ancient times was extended and modified for the modern games held in Athens in 2004. Hope that answers your question!


Do Olympic games bring peace?

The 1956 Olympic Games was held in Melbourne Australia during the height of the Cold War. Throughout the world, there was much global tension and political unrest because of the Suez Crisis, the invasion of Hungary by Russia, tension between East and West Germany and between main-land China and Taiwan. A decade earlier, World War Two shook the foundation of human civilization. It should have served a lesson for future generations that aggression and violence was not the way to win world peace.The first boycott of an Olympic Games was at the 1956 Melbourne Games. A number of countries pulled out of the Games as a protest because of the Suez Crisis and Russia invading Hungary. Athletes were being segregated in the Olympic Village and also fighting broke out between Russian and Hungarian players during a water polo match. It was the fighting which prompted the boy to write his letter in an attempt to save the Games and to get all the athletes together.Foreign governments had high-jacked the Games and the athletes were a pawn in their game. The Olympic Movement was being torn apart. The IOC and the Organizing Committee had given up all hope of saving the Games from ending in failure.Watching all of this was a schoolboy from Swinburne Junior Technical School who was training to be an apprentice carpenter. He was very concerned at what was happening and he came up with an 'idea' of holding a peace march during the Closing Ceremony. He wrote an anonymous letter to the chairman of the Organizing Committee Wilfrid Kent Hughes setting out his 'idea'. The boy included a drawing to help explain his idea. (Later he was asked why he wanted to remain anonymous, he replied "In case people thought it was a silly idea.")In his letter he wrote, "And there shall be only One Nation. War, politics and nationality will be all forgotten, what more could anybody want if the whole world became One Nation."The president of the IOC Avery Brundage agreed to the boy's request and changed the rules of the Games. For the first time in Olympic history, athletes were allowed to march in the Closing Ceremony. It was also the first International Peace March to be held in the history of Mankind. Prior to those Games, athletes had never before marched in an Olympic Closing Ceremony since the Games began in 776 B.C..Since 1956, athletes have continued to march in the Closing Ceremony as one nation as a show of global unity. They will continue to do so on the final day of the London Olympic Games 2012.

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Where were Olympic games held in Greece?

Athens in modern times.


Where were the modern olympic games held?

The first Olympic Games of the modern era took place in 1896. They were held in Athens, Greece where they were held in ancient times.


When and where were the first modern olympic games held?

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.


Is Olympic Games were held for the first time in Athens?

Yes. The first Olympic Games were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.


Where was the first modern Olympic games held?

They were held in Athens, in 1896. ~cjm


Where were the 2004 modern Olympic Games held?

Athens.


Where were the 1893 Olympics held?

There were no Olympic Games in 1893. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.


Where did the first olympic game took place?

The first Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece.


Where was the modern first games held?

The first modern Olympic games were held in Athens in 1986 but the the first ancient olympic games were held in Olympia 776BC


Where and when the first summer games held?

The first official summer olympic games were held in Athens in 1896.


When is the first olympic games held?

It was held in Athens Greece 776 BC


When and where were the first olympic games of the modern era held?

They were held in Athens, Greece