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The French Man Who Revived The Olympics Was Coubertin, Have No Clue What His First Name Is. . .Sorry
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.
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Pierre de Coubertin.
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.
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The founder of the modern Olympic Games was a Frenchman by the name of Pierre de Coubertin, who was born in the French Capital, Paris, in 1863. He was also the President of the International Olympic Committee and remained as an honorary presidednt until his death in 1937, when he passed away in the Swiss city of Geneva.
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The Modern Olympics (starting in 1859) were in Greece in a city called Olympia. I suppose Olympia is where they got the word Olympics from.
For the ancient Olympics any of the ancient Greek gods, particularly Zeus. For modern Olympics whichever is the god of your belief system.
The 2012 Olympics are the 27th modern Summer Olympics (the name XXX Olympiad includes the three years that the games were cancelled due to war).