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The ancient Greeks did - and the site of the games was in Olympia, Greece. The modern Olympics were started in the 1890s by a French nobleman, and have continued to this day.
french is spoken at the modern olympics because the person that started them was french.
Modern Olympic were started by initiatives of french nobleman Baron Pierre De Coubertin in 1896.
1896 the first modern Olympics started
The Ancient games were started by the Greeks. The principle person behind the modern games was French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
he started the Modern Olympics
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he started the Modern Olympics
Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875. International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894 on the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece.
Around 776 BCThe Ancient Olympics started in 776 BC. Then they stopped and they started the modern summer Olympics in 1896. The winter Olympics started in 1924. Then the youth Olympics (Summer and winter) started in 2010.
It was revived by an Englishman - William Penny Brookes in attending his games it inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin who would later develop Brookes' idea into the modern Olympic Games.
No, Antoine Lavoisier was not Jewish. He was a French nobleman and chemist known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry."