the first modern olympics games were held at athens, greece.
the first modern olympics games were held at athens, greece.
where was the first modern olympics games held?
athens , greece
during the 2004 summer olympics games held in athens, greece, kingsbury, who has a greek grandmother, was given the chance to play for the host nation, greece. most of the players on the greek baseball team were americans with greek heritage, including north florida coach dusty rhodes, and white sox scout john kazanas, clay bellinger of the orioles, outfielders nick markakis the orioles and nick theodorou of the dodgers, and catchers mike tonis of royals and george kottaras of the padres.
bobby kingsbury
another step in the globalization of sports was taken with the establishment of the international olympic committee in 1894 and the revival of the olympics games in 1896. the first modern olympics games were organised in its ancient birthplace of athens and attracted athletes from fourteen nations. despite that most of the participants were european, the olympics games of 1896 initiated regularly held international sport competition that soon spread on a global scale. in 1904 in paris, the international federation of association football (fifa) was founded by representatives of france, belgium, denmark, netherlands, spain, sweden and switzerland. shortly after, other european associations joined and by 1909 fifa was consisted only from nations of the “old continent”. this state of affairs did not last long and south africa was the first country from overseas that joined the federation followed by argentina and chile (1912) and the united states (1913). this allowed fifa to start its global activities and in 1930 the first fifa world cup was organised. the tournament which was hosted in uruguay was announced as a great success despite that only four european teams were able to participate. meanwhile other international sport federations started appearing and after the world war ii, when the united states rose as a global power, “american” sports like basketball and volleyball began getting more popularity around the world. international volleyball federation (fivb) organised their first world championship in 1949 while international basketball federation (fiba) hosted theirs in 1950.
globalization of sports