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On This Day in 1896 the First Modern Olympic Games Began in Athens
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.
Newsworthy Women on MSN7mon
Do You Know When Women Were First Allowed to Compete in the Olympics?
As a result, no women were allowed to compete in the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. However, ...
Inside The Games5y
1896 - Athens
As a result, the International Olympic Committee was organised, with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896 ...
History Today: When the United States joined World War I
It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...
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The Countries With the Most Olympic Medals
Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...
Bringing alive the magic of the Olympics
History and Stars of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024 is a fresh compilation of the Games ...
Creative Review5y
A new book is chronicling the design history of the Olympics
It’s much the same for graphic designer and historian Markus Osterwalder, whose decades-long obsession with the Olympics is culminating ... design history in the modern era, from the inaugural ...