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Background To The Modern Olympic Games

Georgia Whiten Physical Education (PE) A level English

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776 BC
- Ancient Olympia
- lasted 1000 years
- in Greece
394 AD
- End of the ancient games
- stopped due to Christianity
- thought to be inappropriate
1613 AD
- annual event
- Robert Dower
  - creator of the games
- Cotswold dover games
- Gloucestershire
- multi event competition
1850 AD
- much Wenlock games
- Dr Penny Brookes
  - creator
  - argued for P.E in schools
- Shropshire
- athleticism
- multi event competition
  - traditional games
1690 AD
- Brookes meets De Coubertin
- Pierre de Coubertin
  - French aristocrat
  - interested in Brookeswork
  - Pierre met Tomas Arnold
    - head teacher of rugby school
  - dreamed to recreate the Olympic games
1896 AD
- Athens Olympics
- birth place of original olympics
- restablished by Pierre de Coubertin
- strictly amatur
- USA, Chile, West Europe, Australia
  - attended the games
    - not a big scale
2012 AD
- London Olympics
- 2012 mascots named after Wenlock games
- traditional

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