Modern Olympics Movement

Although a number of nineteenth-century Europeans endeavored to revive the ancient Olympics, none succeeded. W. P. Brookes inaugurated a series of annual “Olympian Games” in Shropshire in 1849. They were purely local affairs in which rural folk participated in traditional pastimes. ...

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