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

Content: 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. From a small religious, sporting event performed in a small country over 1,500 years ago, the Olympics have grown to an enormous spectacle performed by athletes from virtually every country on Earth and celebrated and watched by billions of people around the globe.