The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia ... saw when they came to this valley five hundred years before the birth of Christ but from fragments of written evidence, experts have ...

The future of an athletics event which inspired the birth of the modern Olympics ... up the International Olympic Committee in 1894 after visiting the Wenlock Olympian Games, founded by Dr William ...

We can’t be certain of what people saw when they came to this valley five hundred years before the birth of Christ but ... were allowed to go to the Olympic Games. Married women were not allowed.

This picturesque town played a part in the birth of the modern Olympic Games. Much Wenlock is the birthplace of Dr William Penny Brookes, the inspiration for the modern Olympic Movement and ...