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In what year did the Olympic games restart as the modern Olympics?
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The first modern Olympic Games were reintroduced in Athens Greece at 1896 thanks to the efforts of a French noble Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a British sportsman Dr William Penny Brooks who was organizing annual sport events known as "wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games" and a Greek philanthropist Evangelos Zappas who had sponsored the revival of the Olympic Games by compensating the expenses of the refurbishment of Panathinaikon Stadion of Athens at 1856 at first. The first modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
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Who named the Olympic games the Olympic games?
The Ancient Greeks held the games at Olympus, Greece, thus giving the name 'The Olympic Games'. In 1894, Pierre de Coubertin wanted to continue the Olympics, and named these modern Olympics the 'Modern Olympic Games'.
When was the first modern olympic games opened to woman?
The 1900 Olympics were the first modern Olympic Games to be open to women.
Were did the modern Olympics start?
The first modern Olympic games where held in Athens, 1896
When was fencing introduced in the Olympics?
Fencing has been a part of the Modern Olympics since the first Modern Olympic Games in 1896.
What is the penalathon in the ancient olympic games?
The pentathlon is a modern Olympics sport.
Where were the 1893 Olympics held?
There were no Olympic Games in 1893. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
What year were the modern Olympics started?
The first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896 in Athens.
What sports were in the first modern Olympics?
Farting Championships were played in the first modern Olympic games.
Where were the first modern Olympics game played?
The first modern Olympic games were played in Athens
How many years passed between the beginning of the modern olympic games and the first olympic winter games?
28. The first modern Olympics was in Athens in 1896 and the first Winter Olympics was in Chamonix (France) in 1924.
What number is this 2008 Summer Olympics?
The modern Summer Olympic Games was started in 1896. There have been 28 Summer Olympic Games held. The modern Winter Olympic Games were started in 1924. There have been 20 Winter Olympic Games held.
Why do you have the Olympics games now?
because Pierre De coubertin made the modern Olympic games
