Who was the founder of the olympic games?

Answer 1

The first Olympics games were held in ancient Greece, hence the name.

(Mount Olympus is in Greece.)

Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the modern Olympic games.
Hercules
According to the ancient Greek historians, the Greeks started the Olympian Games in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece. The date is controversial, as the earliest historians lived 500 years after this date, but the practice of nudity in the games was said to be introduced in 720BC, which seems to confirm the earlier date.

The modern Olympic Games were revived under the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee he founded.

They were first held in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
The Ancient Greeks in 393 A.D
The ancient Greeks originated the Olympics, as far back as 500 B.C. They faded away in the chaos after the fall of the Roman Empire. For over a thousand years they didn't happen - the whole Middle Ages - and then the British revived them in the 1800's.
The Olympics originated in ancient Greece.

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The Greeks invented athletic contests and held them in honour of their gods. The Isthmos game were staged every two years at the Isthmos of Corinth. The Pythian games took place every four years near Delphi. The most famous games held at Olympia, South- West of Greece, which took place every four years. The ancient Olympics seem to have begun in the early 700 BC, in honour of Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games and only Greek nationals could participate. One of the ancient wonders was a statue of Zeus at Olympia, made of gold and ivory by a Greek sculptor Pheidias. This was placed inside a Temple, although it was a towering 42 feet high.

The games at Olympia were greatly expanded from a one-day festival of athletics and Wrestling to, in 472 BC, five days with many events. The order of the events is not precisely known, but the first day of the festival was devoted to sacrifices. On the Middle Day of the festival 100 oxen were sacrificed in honor of a God. Athletes also often prayed and made small sacrifices themselves..

On the second day, the foot-race, the main event of the games, took place in the stadium, an oblong area enclosed by sloping banks of earth.

At Olympia there were 4 different types of races; The first was stadion, the oldest event of the Games, where runners sprinted for 1 stade, the length of the stadium(192m). The other races were a 2-stade race (384 m.), and a long-distance run which ranged from 7 to 24 stades (1,344 m. to 4,608 m.).The fourth type of race involved runners wearing full amor, which was 2-4 stade race (384 m. to 768 m.), used to build up speed and stamina for military purposes.

On other days, wrestling, boxing, and the pancratium, a combination of the two, were held. In wrestling, the aim was to throw the opponent to the ground three times, on either his hip, back or shoulder. In ancient Greek wrestling biting and genital holds were illegal.

Boxing became more and more brutal; at first the pugilists wound straps of soft leather over their fingers as a means of deadening the blows, but in later times hard leather, sometimes weighted with metal, was used. In the pancratium, the most rigorous of the sports, the contest continued until one or the other of the participants acknowledged defeat.

Horse-racing, in which each entrant owned his horse, was confined to the wealthy but was nevertheless a popular attraction. The course was 6 laps of the track, with separate races for whereupon the rider would have no stirrups. It was only wealthy people that could pay for such training, equipment, and feed of both the rider and the horses. So whichever horse won it was not the rider who was awarded the Olive wreath but the owner. There were also Chariot races, that consisted of both 2-horse and 4-horse chariot races, with separate races for chariots drawn by foals. There was also a race was between carts drawn by a team of 2 mules, which was 12 laps of the stadium track
Demetrius Vikelas and Pierre de Coubertin
The Ancient Greeks invented the Olympics as a way to release tension between them and the neighboring countries. The games were held in Athens, Greece. The discus throw and the relay races were the first Olympic games.

Answer 2

Baron Pierre de Coubertain is the man. A Frenchman who brought the Olympics into the modern age. Athens Paris St Louis & London hosted the first 4 modern Olympiads.

Answer

It was actually reintroduced by three men in 1896. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a french noble; Dr. William Penny Brook, a British sportsman; and Evangelous Zappas, a Greek philanthropist that introduced the games.

Answer 3

Zeus did

no zeus! read these!

The Olympic Games called the Panhellenic Games were first held in Olympia around 775 BC. No one knows why the games started. Here are a few myths explaining why the first games were held:

• One legend says the games were started when Hercules brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia.
• Another myth says the games started when Pelops established a festival after defeating King Oenomaus in a chariot race.
• One myth says the games started when a cook named Koroibos, from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a 600 foot long race.

Answer 4

The city-state of Elis in southern Greece.

Answer 5

The Greeks. The first recorded Olympic games were in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece. The Olympics were a celebration of Zeus, the King of Greek Gods.

Answer 6

The founder of Olympics Games was Pierre de Coubertin.

he was big and fat

Answer 7

Frenchmen Pierre de Coubertin.