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The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

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Public Domain On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium, the only stadium in the world built entirely of marble.

The statue was placed in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, which was a declared area and the site for the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient author Strabo wrote about the size of the statue as so large ...

Standing amid the rubble of a historic temple in Mandalay's ancient city of Inwa, a local guide and resident said on Sunday (April 6) that the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar just ...

A 12-metre statue will stand in the middle of the plaza, with its shape inspired by the original 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics emblem — the “Sunflake.” The statue, which will be the same ...

On April 6, 1896, the inaugural modern Olympic Games commenced in Athens, Greece, reviving an ancient tradition after more than 1,500 years. The event was driven by French educator Pierre de Coubertin ...

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On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, ...

Since its first edition at Athens in 1896, in a sense a rebirth that was a tribute to the ancient games staged by the Greeks in Olympia and the spirit that it embodied, the Olympics has only expanded.

“The genius of each people, its manner of holding the festivals and of engaging in physical exercise,” he wrote, “is what will give the modern Olympic Games their true character, and perhaps may make ...