The Baron de Berenger held an Olympic Festival at Chelsea Stadium in London in 1832 ... Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too ...

The Panathenaic Stadium held the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, and it was built on the site of a former stadium used for the Panathenaic games that dates back to 566 B.C. The unique marble ...

The Panathenaic Stadium became the first modern Olympic venue in the world, when it hosted the summer Games in 1896. The only stadium in the world to be completely made of marble, it can seat as ...

The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards ... while fighter jets traced the Olympic Rings in smoke above the stadium. But perhaps the most ...