KIN 2501 : KIN 2501 FINAL EXAM
15 Mar 2019
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International sports in the 20th century 4/22/2014 5:59:00 pm. Beginning of modern olympics: 1896 1st modern olympics, held in athens, greece, international sporting event through pierre decoubertin. Successfully organized sports festival (currency at the time) Got greek philanthropist to donate one million droplets. 13 athletes (mainly from colleges, princeton: 1st marathon, same place as first modern olympics, comes from a story in 490 bc when the greek army defeated the persians. Greek soldier was ordered to run the news to athens (25 miles) said rejoice, we have conquered and then he died: spiridon louis won the first event (first marathon) A lot of countries avoided these games completely. Positive: women were allowed to participate in sports. Decoubertin did not agree with women participating at competitive level: 1906 not an olympics. Held a staged games in athens in honor of the olympics: 1908. At the time, finland (part of russian empire) and ireland (part of.
