RKMBs Forums .::Important::. off topic and offensive posts The Revenge of Frank Burns.

There is a very fair argument that the first modern Olympic Games actually took place in the small English village of Much Wenlock in 1866 - some 30 years before the 1896 Athens Games. They were the brainchild of Dr. William Penny Brookes and were visited by Baron Pierre de Coubertin who was so inspired by the event that he went on to found the International Olympic Committee. In 1994 the president of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, laid a wreath of the grave of Dr. Penny Brooke and acknowledged him as the 'real' founder of the Modern Olympic Games.