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Ancient Multi-Sport Games

The world's most popular international multi-sport games event is the Olympic Games, inspired by the ancient Greek Olympics. But there have been many other similar large-scale sporting games that were held prior to the first modern Olympics in 1896 that are no longer held. For more recent games that are no longer held, see our list of discontinued games.

The Zappeion was used as the Olympic Village at the 1906 Intercalated GamesThe Zappeion was used as the Olympic Village at the 1906 Intercalated Games

List of Ancient Multi-Sport Games



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