Brooke's goal was to create an international Olympics ... to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance, especially from the government of Greece.

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To the family’s surprise the bronze colored medallion turned out to be an Olympic medal from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, held in Athens, Greece. The medal, which measures 2 inches ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

all in time for the 1896 Olympics – the first Games of modern history. The Panathenaic Stadium, which remains the finishing point for the annual Athens Marathon, is particularly impressive ...

ATHENS (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Paris Olympics ... Greece. Friday’s ceremony was held in the all-marble Panathenaic stadium in Athens where the first modern Games were held in 1896.

their best performance - at the time - for several decades The Athens Olympics were meant to be a celebration of the Games' history, as the spiritual home of Olympic sport hosted the world in the ...

ATHENS, July 29. /TASS/. Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Ieronymos has lambasted the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris. "All this is worthy of absolute contempt," the Orthodox ...