I love lookin through a piece of summer and winter olympic history and which cities hosted it in the past. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah thr home to The 2002 Winter Olympic Games...
I suspect that that sponsor knew that most Greek runners in that event that day were already married. He said if a Greek could win, he'd get his daughter's hand and a DOWRY of one million drachmas. You can't get a dowry if you don't get married and you can't marry if you're already married. That way he could offer that spectacular prize without risking much. Very clever. Either that or it was just coincidence.
There was a 10 year-old who competed and won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the original 1896 Olympics. He died in 1970, a year after the moon landing, and the year that the Beatles broke up. What a lifespan.
He did mention that. He said that the sponsor of the event offered his daughters hand and a dowry of one million drachmas, IF a Greek could win. Then he said that Louis started the race as a simple postman and ended it a millionaire. Then he went on to explain that since he was already married, he wouldn't need the marriage or the dowry. I suspect that the offer was very cleverly worded by the sponsor. He probably saw that all the Greek competitors were already married so instead of offering one million drachmas, he offered his daughter's hand and a DOWRY of one million drachmas. Lol. Very clever. You can't get a dowry if you don't marry and you can't marry if you're already married. So he got to promote the event with a spectacular offer and it most likely wouldn't end up costing him a penny. But I'll tell you one thing. If I were a Greek gentleman at the time and I were single, I would've run my ass off. Lol.
@@ykm4818 blah what now? I stopped reading halfway through your comment. You can't expect me to read all that. It might take like, a minute. I have sarcastic comments to make, I can't be reading all day.
Not strictly correct........ and often ignored. The idea of the Olmpics was with a village vicar in Shropshire. at Much Wenlockj Who the Batron met at his village Olympic games... In 1850 an Olympian Class was started by William Penny Brookes at Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, England. In 1859, Brookes changed the name to the Wenlock Olympian Games. This annual sports festival continues to this day. The Wenlock Olympian Society was founded by Brookes on 15 November 1860. In 1890, after attending these Olympian Games of the 'Wenlock Olympian Society', Baron Pierre de Coubertin then was inspired (Vicar no doubt discussing this idea with him) and went on to found the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Society staged a Games especially for the Baron and, inspired by the event and his discussions with Brookes, Coubertin wrote: "If the Olympic Games that Modern Greece has not yet been able to revive still survives there today, it is due, not to a Greek, but to Dr W P Brookes".[2] Coubertin went on to set up the International Olympic Committee in 1894, The IOC could not recognise a village local magistrate as the real founder of the modern olympic idea unless it had nobility associated with it to get the thing of the ground hence the Baron who gets the credit... which Brookes knew was needed to launch the concept of a world wide modern olympic games.....
Richtig. Und niemand konnte bisher den ersten Olympioniken Spyridwn Louis wahrhaftig schlagen. 🇬🇷👍🩵 Heutzutage brauchen die Athleten Wochenlange Vorbereitung, "Aufwärm-Zeit" und bla bla.. Spyridwn kam, sah und siegte.
I would have loved to have been there in Athens in 1896 at the first modern Olympics. They were officially opened by King George I of Greece, the late Prince Philip of England's grandfather. George's sister, Alexandra was there who later became Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII of England. She was Queen Elizabeth's great grandmother. They were both the children of Denmark's near legendary King Christian IX. There was a lot of excitement in the crowd when the Greek runner Spiridon Louis won the first Olympic marathon. A lot of people joined Louis in his final run around the stadium before the finish line. Two of the men joining him were two Greek princes, sons of George I and two of the late Prince Philip's great uncles.
