Games History
Below are our 9 articles in the 'games history' category:
King George I of Greece proclaimed the Olympic Games reborn on 6th April 1896, some 1,502 years after Christian Emperor Theodosius I had abolished the ancient Games.
It had been no mean feat ...
Women made their Olympic debut at the Paris Games in 1900, although only 19 of the 1,225 athletes were female. British tennis player Charlotte Cooper became the first female Olympic champion, ...
The Games returned to Paris in 1924 and the 3,092 athletes were accommodated in an Olympic village for the first time. Unlike the poorly attended event of 1900, spectators flocked to the ...
London was given the unenviable task of reviving the Olympic Games after the Second World War. The 1948 Games were the first global sporting event since the war, although there were several ...
The first Olympic Games to be held in Asia were in Tokyo in 1964. The city had been selected to host the 1940 Games, but World War II had intervened. Yoshinori Sakai, an athlete born not far from ...
The USSR blamed anti-communist demonstrations in America for their non-participation at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, claiming the safety of Soviet athletes could not be guaranteed. East Germany, ...
In 2004, the Games returned to Greece, home of the ancient Olympics and host of the first modern Olympics 108 years earlier. As in 1896, Athens was the host city and the Greeks ensured the history ...
The origin of the ancient Games has not been dated precisely, but official Olympic chronology began in 776BC. At that time, similar celebrations of athletics were held in every Greek city, yet ...
By the time of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the idea was already more than 100 years old. The French Revolutionaries had considered reinventing the Games on the Champ-de-Mars in ...
