Dec 12, 2020 Organisers of the historic Wenlock Olympian Games have launched a campaign to recruit new blood in a drive to continue the event for future generations. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Oswestry's Grace Garry and Telford's Kyle Gladwin take part in hockey in 2013 Shropshire’s sporting feast, which is backed by Team GB, is traditionally held over a weekend in July and is regarded as the forerunner to the modern Olympic Games. It has an illustrious history dating to 1850 when it was set up by founder Dr William Penny Brookes to “promote the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock ”.