Olympics Inform

In 776 BC the Greeks started to measuring the time of the olympics. The Olympics only happened every four years, and it was in honour of the god Zeus.

                                                       1900 

(Paris hosted the second Games in 1900.) Olympics games saw women compete for the first time. The first female Olympic champion was Charlotte Cooper, a British tennis player who won Wimbledon five times. But women were only allowed to play a picked set of sport like tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrian events and golf.