Gymnastics was included in the first modern Olympics in 1896.

体操列入了1896年第一届现代奥运会。

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At the first modern Olympics, there were 43 events from ten sports.

在第一届现代奥运会上，有十种运动的43项赛事。

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There were three swimming items in the first modern Olympics in 1896. But there was no widely accepted rule for swimming.

在1896年的第一届现代奥运会上，共有3项游泳比赛，但是却并没有一个被广泛接受的规则。

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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.

BBC: The story of the Olympics, with a bit of flair

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.

NEWYORKER: Glory Days

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.

ECONOMIST: A survey of the business of sport