The 2018 Winter Games have kicked off in PyeongChang, South Korea. They’ll run until Sunday, February 25.
The Olympics date back centuries into Greek history but the first official Olympic games that we know of was on April 6, 1896. The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1894 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad.
To learn more about the inaugural events dating back to the 5th century B.C., click here. They were originally a one-day event, and then got extended to three and then to five! Now they last about 16 days in total.
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