World History Minute: The first modern Olympics
World History Minute: The first modern Olympics
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For today’s World History Minute, historian John Schmidt, takes us back to this day in 1896 when the Olympic games were revived in Athens.
PHOTO: Triumphant procession of all the Champions round the track of the Stadion.(Wikimedia Commons)