--- title: Google Doodle Honors the First Modern Olympic Games description: Google marked the 120th anniversary of the first modern Olympic games with a doodle on Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/4283160/google-doodle-modern-olympic-games/ author: Mark Rivett-Carnac article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-06T03:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:23.520Z og:title: Google Doodle Marks First Modern Olympic Games og:description: The games were resurrected in 1896 in Athens, Greece og:url: https://time.com/4283160/google-doodle-modern-olympic-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt938fb0427ff91e2b/69888de73c1639ead745cbbb/googledoodleapr6.png?branch=production&width=613&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 613 og:image:height: 345 og:image:alt: GoogleDoodleApr6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Marks First Modern Olympic Games twitter:description: The games were resurrected in 1896 in Athens, Greece twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt938fb0427ff91e2b/69888de73c1639ead745cbbb/googledoodleapr6.png?branch=production&width=613&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Honors the First Modern Olympic Games > Sponsored content. 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For 10 days, 241 athletes from 14 nations competed in 43 events, some held inside the ancient Panathenaic Stadium. To the joy of the host nation, Greek athlete Spyridon Louis won the marathon by more than seven minutes, securing his place in the event’s long history. The [original competition](http://www.olympic.org/documents/reference%5Fdocuments%5Ffactsheets/the%5Folympic%5Fgames%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fantiquity.pdf) can be traced back to 776 BC, when it was dedicated to the Greek god Zeus. Only freeborn, male Greeks could represent their cities in the sports, which included running, wrestling, boxing, the pentathlon and equestrian events. In 393 AD, Emperor Theodosius I brought an end to the games as part of a ban on pagan cults. The modern Olympic games have grown exponentially over the decades. 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