This was not the goal of the modern Olympics founder, Baron de Coubertin.
It was from Victorian Britain that the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, took his inspiration.
Since the revival of the modern Olympics in 1896, no Olympic sprinter has ever won by such a margin.
Dubi cited changes that archery and fencing have made to make their competitions more appealing and viable in the modern Olympics.
Perhaps the high point of tennis in the modern Olympics came on its reintroduction in 1998, when Steffi Graf took gold for Germany.
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Much Wenlock, widely regarded as the birthplace of the modern Olympics movement, is expecting a large influx of visitors around the 2012 Games.
The Much Wenlock Games was founded in 1850, with the Shropshire town being widely considered to be the birthplace of the modern Olympics.
Rogge's predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was a diplomat and showman who created the modern Olympics as a business with big TV contracts and sponsors.
This was its 100th gold medal since the modern Olympics began.
The Much Wenlock Games came to the notice of Pierre de Coubertin, who saw it as a model to revive what has become the modern Olympics.
But International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin -- often referred to as the "grandfather of the modern Olympics" -- still awarded 21 gold medals to the expedition.
And he added that it would be dedicated to advancing modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin's vision of building a better world through sport, culture, education, health and environment initiatives.
For the first sixty years of the modern Olympics, people from around the globe came to mostly European capitals (two Summer Games were held in the United States) to play European games.
Whereas the modern Olympics are an international competition -- a record 201 countries will be participating in the 2004 Olympiad -- the ancient Games were, for most of their 1200-year history, an exclusively Greek institution.
The modern Games room is devoted exclusively to Pierre de Coubertin, the man credited with organising the modern Olympics in the 1890s, again in the name of peace among nations, as well as designing its interlocking ring symbol.
The modern Olympics are a model example of what the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger have called invented traditions ritualized official or quasi-official events, often presented as revivals of ancient practices or in other ways designed to imply continuity with the distant past.
For one or two of them maybe that was the case, but the truth is that there is a genuine belief within the Olympic movement that the modern Olympics simply wouldn't be the same if it hadn't been for Samaranch, and the Spaniard's supporters have a point.
Having all the medals in one place illustrates their evolution and you can learn interesting trivia, like the fact that the first modern Olympics in 1896 lacked gold (silver was first place, bronze second and third place finishers received no medal), and since 1972, host cities have been free to change the design of one medal, usually the silver.
They might be bigger, glitzier and certainly a lot more commercialized, but in spirit at least the modern day Olympics -- inaugurated in 1896 -- have remained remarkably true to the ancient Greek Games on which they were modeled.
Put together with artefacts from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, it is a four-part historical tour of the ancient Olympics and their modern rebirth in the late 1800s, including a hall of past torches and a gallery of 16 extraordinary modern athletes profiled along with examples of medals from each modern Games.
And the Olympics, which features sports like the modern pentathlon that are long out of fashion, faces a challenge in attracting younger audiences and participants.
The Olympics and Paralympics had captured an image of "modern Britishness", she added.
The Olympics have 12 main sponsors, from Kodak, which backed the first modern games in 1896, and Coca-Cola, part of the show since 1928, to Lenovo, a Chinese computer company that signed up in 2005.
Because of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the country will be well-versed and experienced by 2018 in handling a modern-day, large scale event.
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Ah, the Olympics -- a chance for some of the world's greatest cities to showcase modern-looking stadiums, warmly welcome a wave of hopeful international athletes and, of course, rack up hefty costs and abandoned buildings.
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