Modern Olympics

Modern olympic games stories The first modern Olympic Games arose with great pomp in 1896 in Athens, the Panathenaic Stadium. In Olympia today the headquarters of the International Olympic Academy. The lighting of the flame is on the altar of the temple of Hera in Olympia. The flame is lit with the concentration of solar rays to a metal mirror. This process is part of a ceremonial complex, which includes the invocation and the hymn to Apollo.

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