Title: The Olympic Games | Ancient Greece
Headings: The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games
The Olympic Sporting Events
The End and the Beginning

Content: The Games were instrumental in the cultural development of the Western world. The influence of the Olympics were so powerful that the Games were reinstated in 1896. During the Renaissance, Europeans developed a new found fascination and admiration of ancient Greek culture. Later, some European countries began implementing informal athletic events and festivals using the old name of The Olympic Games. In 1892, a French baron, Pierre de Coubertin, a Greek and Olympic Games enthusiast, proposed to various sporting and political leaders that the Olympic Games should be reinstated. A conference on international sports was held in Paris in June, 1894. With Coubertin’s persistence, aggressive politicking and powers of persuasion; seventy nine delegates from nine countries agreed unanimously to approve the reinstatement of the Olympic Games. In 1896 the newly formed, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially launched the first modern Olympic Games in1896 in Athens, the capital of Greece. Today the Olympic Games is one of the most, in not the most, popular sporting event in the World.