Background To The Modern Olympic Games

Background To The Modern Olympic Games

1. 776 BC

   • Ancient Olympia
   • lasted 1000 years
   • in Greece

2. 394 AD

   • End of the ancient games
   • stopped due to Christianity
   • thought to be inappropriate

3. 1613 AD

   • annual event
   • Robert Dower
     • creator of the games
   • Cotswold dover games
   • Gloucestershire
   • multi event competition

4. 1850 AD

   • much Wenlock games
   • Dr Penny Brookes
     • creator
     • argued for P.E in schools
   • Shropshire
   • athleticism
   • multi event competition
     • traditional games

5. 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

6. 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

7. 2012 AD

   • London Olympics
   • 2012 mascots named after Wenlock games
   • traditional