Reborn after 1,500 years, the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in this year
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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 ... Participants, who were all young men from Greek city-states and colonies, often ... games, which had traditionally been held in the same year every four years, ... a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after...
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First modern Olympic Games  - YouTube  Apr 5, 2016 - 1 min - Uploaded by Google Doodle VideosSports. On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, ...  Games are ...
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First modern Olympic Games - Apr 06, 1896 - HISTORY.com  ... Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being ... The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis ... The first Winter Olympic Games were also held that year.
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The Modern Olympic Games  Summer Games was held in 1896 in Athens (Greece), and the first Olympic The Olympic ... are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor ... enthusiastically received and the Modern Olympics were born. ... Year, Host, Opened by, Dates, Nations Modern Olympic Games Timeline - Zappas.org.
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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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First American Olympiad - May 14, 1904 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, First American Olympiad on May 14, 1904. ... Twenty years later, the first truly successful Olympic Games were held in Paris, and ... with increasing popularity, the games have been held in various cities around the globe.
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Olympic Games | Olympics Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia  The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in ... and St. Louis (1904) were overshadowed by the World's Fair exhibitions in which they ... The first host city will be Singapore in 2010; the first Winter Olympics is in ..... in 1984, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan opened the Summer Olympics...
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List of Olympic Games host cities - Wikipedia  This is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer games have usually  but not always  celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. There have been 29 Summer Olympic Games held in 23 different cities, and ... Summer Olympics, having previously hosted the summer games of 1964.
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How The Olympics Changed Atlanta, And What Boston Could Learn ...  Jun 3, 2015 ... Centennial Olympic Park, in Atlanta (Alison Guillory for WBUR) ... bidding to be the sentimental host of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympics. ... drove me around Atlanta, showing me how the '96 Summer Games changed the city. "So all this housing that we're passing on the right is new, and came...
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Seven Wonders of The World - E. R. Greenman  His account says slaves working in shifts turned screws to lift water from the nearby Euphrates River to irrigate the trees, shrubs and flowers. ... the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C. -- built a temple to honor...
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Ancient Greek Olympics and Women | The Role of Women in the Art ...  Answer: Olympia was a religious site where an athletic event was held from early times. .... Question: When and what did the Greeks do in their first Olympics. Answer: The ... Answer: In Ancient times wars were cancelled because of the Olympics. In .... Question: how many competetors were there in the 776 B.C. olympics.
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The sports events - Olympics  The ancient Olympic Games were initially a one-day event until 684 BC, when they ... Running contests included: ... Greeks believed that it was founded by Theseus when he defeated the fierce Minotaur in the labyrinth. Equestrian events. These included horse races and chariot races and took place in the Hippodrome,...
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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 News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 00-07-21  Jul 21, 2000 ... LAUSANNE, 21/07/2000 (ANA). The first meeting between the new "Athens 2004" Olympics ... "The Games were assigned to Athens three years ago and the IOC is ..... The Bank of Cyprus (BOC) is set to become the first foreign firm to be .... National Theatre opens historic first night at Rome's Colosseum.
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Greece - Famous & Ancient Historic Buildings, Historical Sites, Places  The Acropolis is not a single building but a number of temples build on a hill ... high city) in Greece we tend to associate the name with the one in Athens. The buildings that survive today are the Parthenon built between, 447  438 BC ... The first recorded Olympic Games took place in 776 BC although they may have started...
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The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Penn Museum  From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries. ... may date to the 9th century BC, and it has been suggested that these tripods ... The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Modern ... relays in other ancient Greek athletic festivals including those held at Athens.
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2500 Years of Heroic Running - Athens Marathon  The Athens Marathon is recognized as the original marathon course and it's the same course used in the 2004 Olympics held in Athens. ... by a 24.85 mile (40,000 meters) run from Marathon Bridge to Olympic stadium in Athens. ... Traditionally the final event in the Olympics, the first organized marathon on April 10, 1896...
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List of Olympic Games host cities - Wikipedia  This is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer games have usually  but not always  celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. There have been 29 Summer Olympic Games held in 23 different cities, and ... The 1906 Summer Olympics were officially sanctioned and held in Athens.
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Summer Olympic Games - Wikipedia  The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad first held in 1896, is an ... Four cities have hosted two Summer Olympics: Athens (1896, 2004), Paris ... first city outside of the Western world to host the Summer Olympics multiple times. ... Each nation may be represented by no more than one team per competition...
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1896 Summer Olympics - About the Games - Sport-Olympic.com  Mar 26, 2016 ... The 1896 Summer Olympics (Modern Greek:   ... The obvious choice for the first modern Olympics was Greece and the 1896...
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2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  The 2004 Summer Olympic Games officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and ... 1996 coincided with the 100th Anniversary of the first modern Olympics, which ... Athens' successful organization of the 1997 World Championships in .... The main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and...