Greek Olympics

This collection of sixteen thematically linked articles was inspired by the Sydney Olympic Games of 2000. Its international cast includes leading authorities in the study of ancient Greek sport. It considers how sport and festival affected the ancient Greek city and how the values of athletics pervaded Greek culture. To accompany the main focus, on the ancient world, the book examines allied topics of modern culture, such as the sometimes troubled relationship between research on ancient Greek sport and the modern Olympic movement, and the question how museums may best present to a modern public the surviving Greek artefacts linked with sport.

According to most accounts, the man solely responsible for reviving the modern Olympic Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Now, in The Modern Olympics, David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics. Young reconstructs the fascinating and almost unknown history of the Olympic revival movement in the nineteenth century, including two long-forgotten Olympiads--one in London in 1866 and another in Athens in 1870. He traces the idea for the modern Olympics back to an obscure Greek poet in 1833 and follows the sinuous tale to a small village in England, where W. P. Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic Committee, and told Coubertin about his vision of an international Olympics, laying the groundwork for Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - In shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors contested 17 gold medals. The events took place at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica.

Greece at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 Greeks contested events in all nine sports.

Egypt at the 1896 Summer Olympics - One athlete from Egypt competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Dionysios Kasdaglis was a Greek living in Alexandria.

Nikolaos Kaklamanakis - Nikolaos Kaklamanakis (Greek: Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης, August 19, 1968, born in Athens) is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

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Ancient Greece in Indoor Sports - ... in sport ancient greece in indoor sports and physical education; the role ancient greece in indoor sports and scope of sport ancient greece in indoor sports and physical education in Ancient Greece ancient greece in indoor sports and Rome; the Ancient Olympic Games; the relationship between sport ancient greece in indoor sports and religion in ancient ancient greece in indoor sports and modern times; the theoretical ancient greece in indoor sports and professional development of physical education; the rise of sport in modern America; the history ancient greece in indoor sports and politics of the modern Olympic Games; ancient greece in indoor sports and the contributions of men, women, ancient greece in indoor sports and social movements to the development of sport ancient greece in indoor sports and physical education from ancient times to the modern ...

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