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∙ 12y ago28 ... the first modern Summer Olympics was in 1896 and the first Winter Olympics was in 1924.
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28. The first modern Olympics was in Athens in 1896 and the first Winter Olympics was in Chamonix (France) in 1924.
The olympic torch represents the theft of fire from Zeus by Prometheus the giant. It also might represent a relay run in the late Ancient Olympics in which a team of runners passed a torch between them and the last runner lit a huge torch. It is a tradition to light the flame at the beginning of all Modern Olympics.
400 years passed between the beginning of the Mayan civilization and its decline
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modern means plain traditional is something passed down and is extravagent
60 years
The olympic torch represents the theft of fire from Zeus by Prometheus the giant. It also might represent a relay run in the late Ancient Olympics in which a team of runners passed a torch between them and the last runner lit a huge torch. It is a tradition to light the flame at the beginning of all Modern Olympics.
Around four years from the end of the American Revolution.
if you look at it as starting in 1939 then six years passed
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The olympic torch represents the theft of fire from Zeus by Prometheus the giant. It also might represent a relay run in the late Ancient Olympics in which a team of runners passed a torch between them and the last runner lit a huge torch. It is a tradition to light the flame at the beginning of all Modern Olympics.