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Athens, Greece in 1896.
Athens in Greece
Greece Established The First Olympic Games In 776 B.C. In Honor Of One Of Their Gods, Zeus. The First Olympic Games Were Held In Olympia, Greece, Not Mount Olympus (As Some People Are Saying....)
Because they are the countries that came up with the Original Olympics. Pierre De Coubertin thought it would a be a good way to honor them. That tradition is still alive today, except when Greece host the Olympics, it which that case they enter last.
Summer: 2004 Athens, Greece Winter: 2006 Turin, Italy
We don't know who was the first winner of the Olympic games. The Greeks start to record the Olympics in 776 B.C. but the games took place from 1000 B.C. So the first recorded winner was Κόροιβος (Coroebus) a baker from Elis an area in northen-western Greece, very near to Olympia.