Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international Olympic Games in 1859. He paid for the refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium for Games held there in 1870 and 1875.
International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894 on the initiative of a French nobleman, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. The first of the IOC's Olympic Games were the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece.
The Olympics were revived by a Frenchman named Pierre De Cubertin, he did so in 1896
When the Ancient Olympics stopped Pierre de Coubertin started the Modern Olympics.
The olympics have always taken part but it was only in Greece for hundreds of years
A French name Barron Pierre Decouberton
Pierre De Courtiben
Evangelos Zappas
Pierre de Coubertin.
1896
Pierre de Coubertin revived the idea for the modern Olympics in 1889 and seven years later the first modern Olympic Games were held at Athens, Greece.
he revived the Olympic games & formed an international committee.he was a fremch aristocat and founder of the modern olympic games
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Yes they did start the Olympic Games, the Athenians made the Olympic games in a town in Athens call Olympia............ To some it up, YES POO L.O.L
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The Olympic games originated in Ancient Greece where they were held every four years as a festival of Zeus. They were held from 776 to BCE to 393 CE. The modern Olympics revived these ancient games in 1896 and have been held off and on ever since.
Pierre de Courberton
Pierre de Coubertin
The French man who revived the Olympics is Pierre de Coubertin.
Because the government wanted it to be held in athens!
Frenchman Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin