Burke; Arthur Blake; Ellery H. Clark; I. These may not be household names like Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, or Mary Lou Retton, but they happen to be some of the 14 athletes who represented the United States in the first modern Olympics held in Athens, Greece, in At Chronicling America —the free site joint-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress — you can find first-hand journalistic reportage of the Olympics from among its nearly 5 million digitized pages of U.
The first modern Olympic Games were established out of a desire to revive the tradition of athletic competition in ancient Greece that had been dormant for 1, years. The committee decided that the modern Olympics would be held every four years, like its ancestor, and be open only to amateur athletes.
A unanimous vote decided that the games would return to its birthplace in Athens, Greece, in In the run-up to the event, one reporter from the St. The Sun. New York [N. The Panathenaic stadium, where the original games were supposedly held, was renovated in under twenty months by workers. The success of the opening ceremony overshadowed the very real concern that the Olympics might not even get off the ground.
Indeed, two premier team events, cricket and football, were cancelled because no teams arrived. For a complete list of events, click here. For a complete list of modern Olympic Game location sites, click here. Shown here is the stadium entrance at Olympia. Any Winter Games? The first modern Winter Olympic games were held in in Chamonix, France.
There was no winter Olympic festival in ancient times. Separate Winter Games were first authorized in to be held in , but due to World War I they didn't occur until , in Chamonix. Starting with Lillehammer in , it was decided that every other year will be an Olympic year with Summer and Winter Games alternating , rather than holding Summer and Winter Games every 4th year. This was done to accommodate TV networks and audiences.
The Modern Olympic flag of five linked rings, each with a primary color used in the flags of the nations competing in the games, was introduced in There is no ancient basis for this modern symbol.
Dedicated to the promotion of physical education, the young baron became inspired by the idea of creating a modern Olympic Games after visiting the ancient Olympic site. Two years later, he got the approval he needed to found the International Olympic Committee IOC , which would become the governing body of the modern Olympic Games. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in In the opening ceremony, King Georgios I and a crowd of 60, spectators welcomed participants from 12 nations all male , who would compete in 43 events, including track and field, gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, cycling, tennis, weightlifting, shooting and fencing.
The official symbol of the modern Games is five interlocking colored rings, representing the continents of North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. The Olympic flag, featuring this symbol on a white background, flew for the first time at the Antwerp Games in Some 3, athletes with more than women among them from 44 nations competed that year, and for the first time the Games featured a closing ceremony.
The Winter Olympics debuted that year, including such events as figure skating, ice hockey, bobsledding and the biathlon. Eighty years later, when the Summer Olympics returned to Athens for the first time in more than a century, nearly 11, athletes from a record countries competed.
In a gesture that joined both ancient and modern Olympic traditions, the shotput competition that year was held at the site of the classical Games in Olympia. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Modern Olympic history is full of heart-thumping victories and painful defeats. From Athens to Rio, in the The Winter Olympics are an international sports competition held every four years. The event, also called the Winter Games, includes cold-weather events on snow skiing, snowboarding, biathlon and ice figure skating, hockey, speed skating, curling, bobsled, luge, skeleton.
With icy conditions, slick surfaces and freezing temperatures, technological innovation is especially important for the athletes and organizers of the Winter Olympics. From an all-weather torch to a souped-up bobsled, check out some of the many inventions the Games have
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