Modern Olympic Games
The revival work of the Games was undertaken by Baron Pierre de Coubertin nearly 1,500 years after the last of the ancient Games. He was born in to a family of Italian origin which had settled in France. I was on November 25,1892, during a conference at Sorbonne about the history of physical exercises that he first pronounced these famous six word in public "The Restoration of the Olympic Games!" He said that the Games would ennoble and the strengthen amateur sports to give them strength and lasting quality for an essential role in the world of the modern education.
It was at the International Congress for the Study of the Propagation of the Principle of Amateurism held in Paris in June 1894 that the delegates led by Baron Pierre de Coubertin and associates unanimously voted to restore the Olympic Games and tho create an International Olympic Committee to oversee them. De Coubertin had planned to propose Paris for the site of the modern Olympic in 1900 but the enthusiasm and zeal of the delegates was so great that they insisted the first Games to be held 1896. Athens these Games are held every four years.
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