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The first Olympic games were held in 1896, but what was it like?
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not the first first modern (:
The first was actually 776 BC…
Australia was still British penal colony until 1900
Someone should a make a period genre movie about it ☝️🤓🙏
these were the first modern Olympics
One of the participants was only 10 years old
That time former slaves or their immediate children proved to the world that they can dorminate in these events. I assume those 11 gold medala by USA were worn by mostly black men.
Some random time in the early modern Olympics, America got their measurements wrong, and ended up training their shotput players to use some weight that was much much heavier than what was intended. I'll just say they were throwing 10kgs, barely reaching the avarage of the other countries, which Americans were stunned at, thinking thst the other opponents were inhumanly strong. Once they arrived to the Olympics, they realised their mistake, and realised they've been throwing a ball that was 10x too heavy at that distance.
They all broke the previous records on that day
WAY earlier than 140 AD at least the 5th century BCE
Viva Chile ctm 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
In shooting they also had a canon disciplin
I see they had the home field advantage
Damn, just last week I got to visit the Panathenaic stadium in person, it looks really fancy w/ all that marble. Nowadays it's a museum, but you can still run on the field
Canada 🇨🇦 did not come in Greece 🇬🇷 yet until 1900’s.
bro you know back then gold silver and bronze wasnt a thing it came to life in 1906
In 1896, northern Greece was still ruled by Ottoman empire and World war 1 made modern borders of greece
Only four countries have taken part in every single Olympics Games (of the modern era). Only one country has won a gold medal at every single one. Great Britain 🇬🇧🏅
Shout out to the nerds in the comments pointing out the obvious
Sorry, it was held in England in 1850, at Wenlock, a modern Olympics began. De Coubertan picked up the idea forty years on.
Weren't bronze medals given for 2nd, and silver for 1st in the first olympics?
Great movie about it
Bruh 🤦♂️