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The 1896 Summer Olympics (Modern Greek: Î¸ÎµÏÎ¹Î½Î¿Î¯ Î¿Î»ÏÎ¼ÏÎ¹Î±ÎºÎ¿Î¯ Î±Î³ÏÎ½ÎµÏ 1896, Therinoi TherinoÃ­ Olympiakoi olympiakoÃ­), agoÌ±nes agÃ³Ì±nes 1896 officially Known as the Games Of, the i olympiad-was a multi sport Event, Held, in athens greece from 6 to. 15 april 1896 it was The First international olympic games Held in. the modern eraecause Ancient Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Athens was considered to be an appropriate choice to stage the inaugural modern Games. It was unanimously chosen as the host city during a congress organised by Pierre de Coubertin, a French pedagogue and historian, in Paris, on 23 June 1894.
The ancient Olympics were held every four years between August 6 and September 19 during a religious festival honoring Zeus. The Games were named for their location at Olympia, a sacred site located near the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.he Olympics in Ancient Greece. The first written records of the ancient Olympic Games date to 776 B.C., when a cook named Coroebus won the only eventâa 192-meter footrace called the stade (the origin of the modern âstadiumâ)âto become the first Olympic champion.