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On This Day in 1896 the First Modern Olympic Games Began in Athens
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...
JSTOR Daily26d
The 1896 Olympic Games at Athens and the Princeton Connection
The Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 64, No. 3, Spring 2003 The 1896 Olympic Games at Athens and the... The 1896 Olympic Games at Athens and the Princeton Connection This is the metadata ...
Inside The Games5y
1896 - Athens
As a result, the International Olympic Committee was organised, with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896 ...
NBC Olympics3y
Kiesenhofer stuns with gold, Austria's 1st cycling medal since 1896Kiesenhofer stuns with gold, Austria's 1st cycling medal since 1896
In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...