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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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The Olympics were revived by a Frenchman named Pierre De Cubertin, he did so in 1896

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When the Ancient Olympics stopped Pierre de Coubertin started the Modern Olympics.

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The olympics have always taken part but it was only in Greece for hundreds of years

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A French name Barron Pierre Decouberton

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Pierre De Courtiben

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Evangelos Zappas

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Pierre de Coubertin.

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