Revival Era
19 entries
Wenlock Olympian Games
Much Wenlock, England. The village festival that inspired Pierre de Coubertin...
Zappas Olympics
Athens, Greece. A Greek merchant funded the first modern revivals...
Sorbonne Congress 1894
Paris, France. The congress that founded the IOC...
Athens 1906 Intercalated Games
Athens, Greece. The unofficial intercalated Games that steadied the movement...
Cotswold Olimpick Games
Chipping Campden, England. Country sports festival begun by Robert Dover in the early 1600s...
Olympiade de la Republique
Paris, France. Revolutionary national games on the Champ de Mars...
Liverpool Olympic Festivals
Liverpool, England. Amateur Olympic festivals of John Hulley and Charles Melly...
National Olympian Games
London, England. The first national Olympic style games in Britain, at the Crystal Palace...
Nordic Games
Stockholm, Sweden. The winter sports festival that preceded the Winter Olympics...
Excavations at Olympia
Olympia, Greece. German archaeologists unearthed the shrine that fired the revival...
Sokol Festivals
Prague, Czech lands. Mass gymnastics festivals that shaped modern Olympic pageantry...
Olympic Manifesto of 1892
Paris, France. Coubertin first proposed reviving the Olympic Games...
Anthropology Days 1904
St Louis, USA. A racist side show at the 1904 Games, now remembered with shame...
Inter-Allied Games 1919
Paris, France. The sporting festival of the victorious Allied armies...
Womens Olympic Games 1922
Paris, France. Alice Milliat forced the door open for women athletics...
Womens World Games 1934
London, England. The fourth and last of the Milliat womens festivals...
Workers Olympiad 1925
Frankfurt, Germany. The labor movement staged its own mass Olympics...
Maccabiah Games
Tel Aviv, Palestine. The Jewish world games, first staged under the British Mandate...
World Student Games 1923
Paris, France. The student festival that grew into the Universiade...