The first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens on 1896. 300 athletes from 13 countries participated in the conference and participated in 9 events, namely: track and field, swimming, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, lawn tennis, wrestling and weightlifting. Since then, the Olympic Games has been promoted to an international competition, which is held every four years. The second Olympic Games was held in Paris in 1900. The founder of the modern Olympic Games is the French aristocrat Coubertin.
1894, he arranged for 78 leaders of 37 sports organizations to hold an international conference, at which everyone unanimously agreed to resume the Olympic Games and establish the International Olympic Committee. Coubertin originally envisaged that the first Olympic Games in the new century would be held in Paris, but under the persuasion of the linguist de Mitriu-ViKailas living in Paris, Coubertin agreed to let Greece become the host country of the 1896 Olympic Games.
Therefore, Coubertin is also called the father of modern Olympics.