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LONDON has staged the Games twice before, in 1908 and 1948, but on both occasions it stepped in at short notice when others could not do the job and is of course due to host again in 2012.

Many cultures through the centuries have staged events celebrating sporting achievement although the source of the modern Olympics were the games, first held nearly three thousand years. Between the ancient games' abolition in 393 AD and the late nineteenth century nothing much was heard of the Olympics. Then along came Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He was steeped in the traditions of ancient Greece through the classical education common to the propertied classes of the day, but his direct inspiration for the modern Olympic movement was an event in the village of Much Wenlock in the English midlands.

The very first modern Olympic Games opened in the first week of April 1896, involving 14 nations, just 241 atheletes in 43 events. Since the Greek government had been unable to fund construction of a stadium, a wealthy Greek architect, Georgios Averoff, donated one million drachmas (over $100,000) to restore the Panathenaic Stadium, with white marble for the Olympic Games.