Google Doodle For First Modern Olympic Games On Its 120th Anniversary

Apr 6, 2016 - 7:40 am 0 by
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Google Doodle For First Modern Olympic Games On Its 120th Anniversary

On Google's home page today, on Google.com, is a special Google logo, aka Doodle for the 120th anniversary of the first modern olympic games. Today , a 120 years ago was the first modern Olympic games. It started in Athens, Greece in 1896 and was officially called the Games of the I Olympiad. The Games of the I Olympiad events took place inside the Panathenaic Stadium.

To commemorate the day, Google has this special set of four Google doodles remember some of the events. The first games had 9 different sports and 43 events but Google only had room for four sports. Here they are:

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