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Pierre de Coubertin organised a Paris congress in 1894 that revived the Games and created the IOC. The first modern Games opened in Athens on 6 April 1896.

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Once a filler break with marching bands, halftime became a star-driven spectacle in the 1990s, after a rival broadcast and Michael Jackson's 1993 show showed the NFL the audience it was losing.

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James Naismith created basketball in December 1891 at a YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, to give restless students an indoor winter game.

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The distance comes from the 1908 London Olympic course, adopted as standard in 1921. Why that course was that length is disputed, and the royal-nursery story is contested.

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