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Come the summer 2004, audiences around the world will tune in to watch the most thrilling sports competition of all. Celebrate the momentous Athens homecoming of the Olympic summer games with this definitive, official, and breathtakingly illustrated history. Full color.

According to most accounts, the man solely responsible for reviving the modern Olympic Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Now, in The Modern Olympics, David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics. Young reconstructs the fascinating and almost unknown history of the Olympic revival movement in the nineteenth century, including two long-forgotten Olympiads--one in London in 1866 and another in Athens in 1870. He traces the idea for the modern Olympics back to an obscure Greek poet in 1833 and follows the sinuous tale to a small village in England, where W. P. Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic Committee, and told Coubertin about his vision of an international Olympics, laying the groundwork for Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

Olympic Stadium (Athens) - The Olympic Stadium (also known as the Athens Olympic Stadium, and Spiridon "Spiros" Louis Stadium, after the first man to win a marathon race) is a stadium that is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. It hosted the athletics events and the soccer final at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Olympic Baseball Centre (Athens) - The Olympic Baseball Centre in Athens consists of two baseball stadiums at the Helliniko Olympic Complex. It was the site of the baseball games at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Olympic Indoor Hall (Athens) - The Olympic Indoor Hall (also known simply as the Indoor Hall) is the largest indoor venue in use for sporting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. It is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, in the suburb of Marousi.

Olympic Tennis Centre (Athens) - The Olympic Tennis Centre is a grouping of tennis courts at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. It hosted the tennis matches at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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