GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1, 500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Detailed explanation-2: -TAKING HOME THE GOLD The Romans eventually banned the Olympics in A.D. 393, after Rome conquered Greece in the second century B.C. But the games were revived in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and have been celebrated every four years since.

Detailed explanation-3: -From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries. Contrary evidence, both literary and archaeological, suggests that the games may have existed at Olympia much earlier than this date, perhaps as early as the 10th or 9th century BC.