On 6 April 1896 the first Olympic Games for 1500 years took place in Athens , Greece – the country in which the first recorded Olympics had been held in 776 BC. Much more recently, the Olympics returned again to Athens in the summer of 2004.

Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp
Official website of the Olympic Movement. Lots of information, including memorable highlights of past Games. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
Interesting facts about the Games in Ancient Greece. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics
More background information on the 1896 Games in Athens – the first ‘modern’ Olympics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/default.stm
All the results from the 2004 Athens Olympics.