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Olympics on StampsThe first Olympic Games of the modern era were staged in Athens,Greece from 6 to 15 April 1896. The driving force behind their revival was Pierre de Fredi, Baron de Coubertin, who was born in Paris in 1863. He believed in the Greek athletic ideal of perfection of mind and body, and his energies were devoted to achieving his dream of reintroducing the Olympic Games, which had been staged for more than a thousand years before their prohibition in AD 394. In 1889 de Courertin was commissioned by the French government to form a universal sports association and he visited other European nations to gather information. He made public his views on 25 November 1892 at the Sorbonne in Paris. These led to the formation of the International Olympic Committe in 1894 and thence to the staging of the Olympic Games., which were opened in Athens on Easter Monday 1896. VENUES
* Intercalated Games held in1906 at Athens as the tenth anniversary celebrations of the 1896 Games.
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