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First modern Olympics is held - Apr 06, 1896 - HISTORY.com  On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating. The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1984 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad.
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Athens 1896 Olympic Games | Britannica.com  Athletic festival held in Athens that took place April 615, 1896. The Athens Games were the first occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. ... originated there, and the city is generally considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization.
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1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1896 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. ... The 1896 Olympics were regarded as a great success. ... Games in 1896. With a date established, members of the congress turned their attention to the selection of a host city.
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First modern Olympic Games - Apr 06, 1896 - HISTORY.com  The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C., but it is generally accepted that the Olympics were at least 500 years old at that time. The ancient Olympics, held every four years, occurred during a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus.
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Athens 1896 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights  The Athens 1896 Summer Olympic Games (April 6-15) marked the birth of the Modern ... The first celebration of the modern Olympic Games took place in its ancient ... Spyridon Louis set off from the city of Marathon and took the lead four...
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Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad first held in 1896, is an international multi-sport event that is hosted by a different city every four years. ... Eighteen countries have hosted the Summer Olympics. ... Summer Olympics to be held in South America and the first to be held during the local winter season.
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Winter Olympic Games Host Cities - Topend Sports  List of cities that have hosted previous Winter Olympic Games. ... The winter Olympic Games were first held in 1924, beginning a tradition of ... 1976, Innsbruck, Austria, February 4-15 ... 1948, St. Moritz, Switzerland, January 30 - February 8 ... three times (1924, 1968 and 1992), and the summer games twice (1900 and 1924)...
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Gymnastics 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics  Mar 10, 2016 ... Athens, 1896: The earliest years of Olympics gymnastics competition feature a variety of events, ... London, 1948: The 1948 gymnastics event must be moved indoors ... Two gymnasts become unwitting proxies for the conflict: Soviet .... in the team event since 1984 and the first at a fully-attended Olympics...
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8 Unusual Facts About the 1904 St. Louis Olympics - History in the ...  Aug 29, 2014 ... The games were the first ever Olympiad held in the United States, and ... originally awarded the 1904 Summer Games to the city of Chicago.
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Olympic Faith The first Olympic games, held on the plains of Olympia ...  The first Olympic games, held on the plains of Olympia in ancient Greece, began in 776. BC. There was one event, a footrace. Later, they added the ... times I remember that athletes were disqualified for trying to lose, or giving less than their best. The badminton players stood ... It was used to reckon time from 766 AD for the...
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Olympic Games - History of the modern Summer Games | Britannica ...  Sep 9, 2016 ... An official poster from the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens. ... Like the 1900 Olympics in Paris, the 1904 Games took a secondary ... hammer throw, pole vault, 120-yard hurdles, 56-pound weight throw, ..... The 1952 Olympics also saw the debut of the Soviet gymnast Viktor ..... Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., 1996.
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1996 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia  The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, USA were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games where International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability athletes were given full medal status. ... Host city, Atlanta, United States.
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1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  Bid. Atlanta was selected on September 18, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, over Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne, and Toronto at the 96th IOC Session. Atlanta's bid to host the Summer Games that began in 1987 was considered a long-shot, since the U.S. had hosted the Summer Olympics 12 years earlier in Los Angeles.
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Connolly takes a leap into the history books - Olympic News  The track-and-field programme in Athens was dominated by athletes from the ... 1896, American James Connolly earned the distinction of becoming the very first ... The triple jump  or hop, skip and jump as it was then known  was the first ... of his nearest opponent and become the first Olympic champion since AD385.
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Athens - Scribd  Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 ... by Cleisthenes in 508 BC. was the architectural style through which Bavarian. ... Athens was chosen as the capital of the newly independent Greek state in ..... of smog (or nefos as the Athenians used to call it) has become less common.
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Athens 1896 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights  The Athens 1896 Summer Olympic Games (April 6-15) marked the birth of the ... The first celebration of the modern Olympic Games took place in its ancient ... For the longer race, the swimmers were transported by boat out to sea and left to ... the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years.
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List of Olympic venues - Wikipedia  The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year. As a multi-sport event, competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area. ... and instead in other regions of the host country (as it is usually the case with...
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1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1996 Summer Olympics known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympic Games, was ... Atlanta became the fourth American city to host the Olympic Games and the third to hold a ... Modern pentathlon (riding, running); Georgia State University Sports Arena  Badminton...
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1952 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1952 Summer Olympics (Finnish: Kesolympialaiset 1952) (Swedish: Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which ..... This page was last modified on 28 October 2016, at 12:43.
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1896 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 1896 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was the first ... The United States won the most gold medals, 11; host nation Greece won the most .... Some of the athletes would take part in the Games because they happened to be in ... Seven venues were used for the 1896 Summer Olympics.
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Atlanta Selected to Host Olympic Games in 1996 - latimes  Sep 19, 1990 ... YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsOlympic Games (1996) ... first of the modern Olympics in 1896, as well as representing the country that ... could not entrust the Centennial Games to a city that has been plagued by...