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The Difference Between Weightlifting and Weight Lifting (and Why It Matters)
By the time the first (modern) Olympics rolled around in 1896, there was enough interest in weightlifting as a competitive sport that it was one of the sports contested. It took decades after that ...
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On This Day in 1896 the First Modern Olympic Games Began in Athens
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.
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A CLOSER LOOK: Weightlifting’s Olympic future is uncertain and it’s nobody’s fault but their own
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo The sport of weightlifting has a long history in the Olympic Games. In fact, the sport was part of the very first Games in Athens in 1896. Two weightlifting ...
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1896 - Athens
with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...