According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, a son of Zeus.

Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records was held in 776 BC. At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus—a cooker from Elis, won the sole【M1】______ event at the Olympics, the stade—a run of approximate 192 meters.【M2】______ This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. The ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 BC, the Roman emperor abolished the Games because their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years【M3】______ later, a young Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertins attempt to get France interested in sports was met with【M4】______ enthusiasm at first. Still, Coubertin persisted. In 1890, he organized and found a sports organization, Union des Societes Francaises de【M5】______ Sports Athl6tiques(USFSA). Two years later, Coubertin first pitched his idea to revive the Olympic Games. At a meeting of the Union des Sports Athl6tiques in Paris in November 25, 1892, Coubertin made【M6】______ a speech and eloquently spoken of the revival of the Olympic Games.【M7】______ This time, he aroused up interest. The delegates at the conference【M8】______ voted unanimously for the Olympic Games and also decided to have Coubertin constructed an international committee to organize the【M9】______ Games. This committee became the International Olympic Committee and Demetrious Vikelas in Greece was selected to be their first【M10】______ president Athens was chosen for the revival of the Olympic Games and the planning was begun.

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