What was the first country to win the first Olympics?

Answer 1

The Ancient Olympic Games were a series of competitions held between representatives of several city-states from Ancient Greece, which featured mainly athletic but also combat and Chariot Racing events.

The first significant attempt to emulate the ancient Olympic Games was the L'Olympiade de la République, a national Olympic festival held annually from 1796 to 1798 in Revolutionary France. The competition included several disciplines from the ancient Greek Olympics. The 1796 Games also marked the introduction of the metric system into sport. In 1850 an Olympian Class began in England. It was renamed the Wenlock Olympian Games in 1859, and continues today as the Wenlock Olympan Society Annual Games. In 1866, a national Olympic Games in Great Britain was organized by Dr. William Penny Brookes at London's Crystal Palace.

Greek interest in reviving the Olympic Games began after the country's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. It was first proposed by poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem "Dialogue of the Dead", published in 1833. Evangelis Zappas, a wealthy Greek philanthropist, sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859 in an Athens city square. Athletes came from Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Later Zappas paid for the complete restoration of the ruins of the ancient Panathenian Stadium so that it could stage two further editions of the Games, one in 1870 and a second in 1875.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games

Answer 2

The games are not really a competition between countries and as such as not set up to really tell. Does first mean most medals combined? Or has the most gold medals?

Answer 3

Officially, no country "wins" the Olympic Games. Medal standings are not recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

Answer 4

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