On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

3, Spring 2003 The 1896 Olympic Games at Athens and the ... but also of poetry by Kostis Palamas (the Olympic hymn) and Ioannis Polemis. For Brookes and the Wenlock Games, which still take place every ...

As international delegates debated the rules for the first modern games, held in Athens in 1896, the British delegation ... Two years after the Games, Olympic officials stripped Thorpe of his ...

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Versatile in both his athletic and professional lives, Ellery Clark was a double gold medalist at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. At the Olympic revival in Athens, Clark won both the high jump ...

1896 — The first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece. James B. Connelly wins the first event — the hop, step and jump. 1936 — Horton Smith edges Harry Cooper by one stroke to win ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic ... of the modern Olympics. Coubertin began his 29-year term at age 33 in 1896, the year ...

1896 — The first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece. James B. Connelly wins the first event — the hop, step and jump. 1936 — Horton Smith edges Harry Cooper by one stroke to win ...

Today in Sports, April 6 - UConn sweeps the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball crown in the same year April 6 1896 — The first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece. James B.

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall ... IOC president after Pierre de Coubertin, the founder ...