Google celebrated the 120th anniversary of the first modern Olympic Games on April 7 with its sporting doodle. Four versions showing Victorian athletes standing in for letters – designed by Google doodler Olivia Huynh – feature a different event from the first modern Olympiad in 1896 at the Panathinaic Stadium known as Kallimarmaro. 

Athens was chosen as the location of the first modern Olympics in the revival of the event that took place in Ancient Greece. During the first games, 241 athletes representing 14 countries participated in a total of 43 events. The nine sports that were featured during the first games were tennis, fencing, weightlifting, track and field, cycling, shooting, swimming, wrestling and gymnastics. Since then, the Olympics have come a long way with 26 different sports included. 

80 years since the lighting of the first Olympic Flame 

On Tuesday, the Hellenic Olympic Committee presented details of the Lighting and Handover Ceremonies of the Olympic Flame for Rio 2016, 80 years since the first lighting of the Olympic Flame in 1936. The Olympic Flame for the Rio Games will be lit at Ancient Olympia on April 21, followed by a six-day relay around Greece and its handing over to the Organizing of the Rio Games on April 27.