Updated: July 12, 2021, 11:54 am
The Panathenaic Olympic stadium in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
When the Olympic Games begin in Tokyo this month, they will feature in excess of 11,000 participants from 200-plus countries, battling for more than 1,000 medals in 33 different sports.
The eyes of the world will be focused on an extravaganza that was delayed due to the Covid pandemic in 2020 but which is being staged this year despite concerns from many Japanese people about the rationale for them taking place with the virus still rampant in large parts of the globe.
However, the IOC seems determined to proceed with these Games without frontiers and the BBC is committed to broadcasting up to 350 hours of coverage from the myriad venues hosting competitions.
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Tom and Emily Ford from their visit to The Grange School to officially open the £6m sports centre in 2019 SIBLINGS who started rowing at The Grange School have been selected for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Tom and Emily Ford are among the 45 rowers selected to feature for Team GB at the delayed Games this summer. Both now represent the Leander club, where they moved to progress their careers as full-time athletes, and it will be their first appearance at an Olympic Games after having represented their country at international level for some time. And the symmetry continues in that they have both been selected in the eights, Tom, 29, in the men s and Emily, 26, in the women s.