Fascinating Olympic Facts
The ancient Olympic Games began in greec in 776 B.C.E . and were held every four years until 393 C.E. It wasn't until about 1,500 years later,in the mid-1800s,the that the games were revived in Greece. But the olympic didn't become the event we know today until 1894 when a French historian named Pierre de Conbertin had the idea of making the games international,and founded the International Olympic Committee.