London 2012 Olympic Games A5 Wenlock notebook
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The name Wenlock is inspired by Much Wenlock, a small town in Shropshire.
In 1890, on his journey towards creating the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was invited to visit Much Wenlock by William Penny Brookes, a local doctor, admirer of ancient Greek society and advocate of physical education in schools.
De Coubertin watched the ‘Much Wenlock Games’, which Dr Brookes had created to ‘promote the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock’ and which comprised athletics and traditional country sports with a procession of flag bearers, competitors and officials. While there, de Coubertin shared his vision for sport with Dr Brookes.
In 1894, de Coubertin’s proposal to establish the Olympic Games in a modern form was approved by delegates at the ‘International Congress of Paris for the Re-establishment of the Olympic Games’ and a committee, which would later become the International Olympic Committee, was also established. In 1896, the very first edition of the modern Olympic Games was held in Athens. In his diaries he details how the people of Much Wenlock helped inspire him to create the Olympic Movement whose Values still hold strong in today’s world.
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