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title: "Summer Olympics in Paris"
year: 1900
country: "France"
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# Summer Olympics in Paris

> The 1900 Paris Olympics marked only the second modern Games and the first to include female athletes, expanding competitive sports beyond exclusively male participation.

## Summary

The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, are a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the Kingdom of Greece, and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris, France. This was the first international multi-sport event of its kind, organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) founded by Pierre de Coubertin. The tradition of awarding medals began in 1904; in each Olympic event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals for second place, and bronze medals for third place. The Winter Olympic Games were created out of the success of the Summer Olympic Games, which are regarded as the largest and most prestigious multi-sport international event in the world.

## Sources

- [Summer Olympics](https://web.archive.org/web/20260703203230/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games) - Wikipedia

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