历届奥运会(英文)

History of Olympic Games (1)

Athens 1896 The modern Olympic Games started and set the precedent of struggle and strife shared by subsequent hosts of the ultimate sports event.1 Competition in the shadow of2 Mount Olympus3

The modern Olympic Games started and set the precedent of struggle and strife shared by subsequent hosts of the ultimate sports event. Competition in the shadow of Mount Olympus in 1896 was, as it had been, for men only and had come about after much campaigning by Greece against Pierre de Coubertin＇s idea of staging the first modern Games in Paris in 1900 as part of the World Exhibition.