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event_title="Ancient Olympic Games"
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<p>
The first written evidence of the official Games dates from 776 BC, when
the Greeks began measuring time in Olympiads, or the duration between
each edition of the Olympic Games. <span
>The first Olympic Games were held every four years in honour of the
god Zeus. From then on, a number of artistic activities such as music,
singing, poetry and theatre were organised at the Pythian or Delphic
Games (a separate event to the Games held in Olympia), linking culture
and sport right from the beginning of the Games.</span
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event_title="Ban of Olympic Games"
event_startdate="[393,null,null]"
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In 393 AD, the Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned the Olympic Games for
religious reasons, claiming that they encouraged paganism. They were not
revived until the modern era.
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event_title="Olympic Games Revived in Paris"
event_startdate="[1894,6,16]"
event_enddate="[1894,6,23]"
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A number of initiatives to re-establish an international sporting event
were attempted at the end of the 19th century, but failed due to the
lack of coordination among the worldwide sporting movement – until one
man decided to bring the main stakeholders together in Paris.
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<span
>The Olympic Games were therefore revived at the first Olympic
Congress, organised by Baron Pierre de Coubertin and held at the Grand
Amphitheatre at the Sorbonne University from 16 to 23 June 1894. Two
thousand people attended, including 58 French delegates representing
24 sports organisations and clubs, and 20 delegates from Belgium,
Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the
United States representing 13 foreign sports federations.</span
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event_title="First Modern Olympic Games"
event_startdate="[1896,4,null]"
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The first Olympic Games of the modern era took place in Athens, in the
country where the original Games took place in Antiquity, in April 1896.
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event_title="Women Competed for the First Time in the Olympic Games"
event_startdate="[1900,null,null]"
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<p>Paris hosted the second Games in 1900.</p>
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The Paris 1900Olympic Games saw women compete for the first time. The
first female Olympic champion was Charlotte Cooper, a British tennis
player who won Wimbledon five times. Out of a total of 997 athletes, 22
were women, competing in just five sports: <a
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><a href="https://www.paris2024.org/en/sport/golf/">golf</a
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event_title="First Olympic Games Open to Athletes with Disabilities"
event_startdate="[1904,null,null]"
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The1904Olympic Games in St. Louis (Missouri) were the first to
distribute gold, silver and bronze medals, and also included the first
known disabled athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, George Eyser. He
won six medals in gymnastics, three of which were gold.
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event_title="First Olympic Games with Athletes from Five Continents"
event_startdate="[1912,null,null]"
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The Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 were the first to include
competitors from all five continents represented by the Olympic rings.
It was also the year that women made their debut in the swimming events.
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