now i've been looking forward to telling this particular story and let's actually get it cracking straight away with really what is quite a comprehensive image of what we're going to cover in this particular session i want you to be aware of what the broad background of the modern olympics is so first things first the olympic games this this was that's not going to be a question mark there should be end of the ancient games um this initial ancient games um enjoyed nearly a thousand years and between 776 bc and 394 a.d and interestingly that the obviously we'll look at the mod olympics primarily in this tutorial but interestingly the the main fact that led to the end of the olympic games was christianity which is in itself a bit of an interesting concept right we sort of tend to link sort of good sporting olympic type ideals to sort of christian ethos right so it was kind of interesting that that was um the fact that led to it being removed but we're gonna kind of from there we're gonna jump forward well over a thousand years and we're gonna talk about this cotswold dover games now in order to kind of reflect this i've got this image here which is an image which is uh a drawing of what happens in the games and obviously the cotswolds being in sort of central south of england but you know it's here that it's a multi-event sporting event it's got stick fighting it seems to have gymnastics it seems to have this thing here which is called shin kicking amazing sport if you at some point want to get that onto youtube for you bear with me a second shin kicking if you want to be having a look at that you might find some interesting stuff you can see here we've got some kind of racing what appeared to be some kind of athletic species this was a multi-event sporting activity that took place that took place from 1612 onwards and was established by an individual called robert dover okay robert dover hence the dover games and this becomes like almost a forerunner to the modern olympic games this multi-activity type event now again we're going to zoom forward a little bit further and we're going to get all the way to 1850 and in 1850 i want to introduce you to this character here his name is dr penny brooks okay dr william betty brooks in fact and this individual dr brooks a really inspirational character in this particular story he's based in shropshire and in 1850 he develops what are known as the much wenlock olympian games the much wenlock olympian games now this again is another example of a multi-event uh sporting occasion uh in this case he was a social reformer he wanted to use sort of the educational aspects of sport to educate people and that's not dissimilar to what's happening in the public schools at this kind of time and it involved things like athletics running and throwing now what's particularly interesting about brooks is he was a reformer and you see here that in 1890 he received a visit from this person here great mustache i think we can all agree this individual here is baron pierre de cuba tan now this is a french land-owning gentry fellow who's particularly interested in sporting athleticism and he's particularly interested in the kind of the legacy of the ancient olympic games but he's also studying the practices amongst other things going on in british public schools in the 19th century he comes to england he visits public schools like rugby for example he meets up with penny brooks and talks about this olympic ideal more of which we're going to get in second and he starts begin working towards working towards the modern olympics or what we know now as the modern olympics i'll come back to that word modern and we'll reflect on that in a second but a couple of things that are interesting to note here is that by 1896 six years later dakubatan has established the first of the the first olympic games based in the panathenaice stadium in athens for over 1500 specifically fifteen hundred and two years so one thousand five hundred and two years later the game's returned to greece and it's the work of amongst others this french baron de cubita now this panathinaika stadium hosted a whole bunch of countries competing there were countries from western europe there were there was indeed the us there was canada there was chile notice some of the countries that weren't taking part there was australia i'll just put ours like that australia taking part in this athens 896. so this kind of mon olympics was really at that point more of a narrow concept it's also worth bearing in mind that in terms of modernity in this olympic games here women were not only allowed to compete but they weren't allowed in the stadium so you've got to consider what modern really really means now of course what we're then going to sort of start to think about is how that develops into the games let's say london games in 2012 and of course you know i happen to be recording this 10 years after the 2012 games and you might think that's that's ages and ages ago your age but these games are relatively recent of course now a couple of things i want you to be aware of with regards to the athens games that was re-established they did a couple of interesting things like i said they invited these countries they did all kinds of odd sports one arm weightlifting have a think about that one was a sport in this modern olympic games they also took part in things like mixed tenants now you might understand mixed tenants to be one male one female performer no no no this was for example uh uh great britain on the us sharing a team for example and it was really important to stress that this was amateur only so no professionals were allowed and we also know it was men only okay so these are some of the players in the reinvention of the olympic movement olympic games now can i stress to you a couple of summary points that i think are really important to drive home realize the importance realize the importance of british public schools now you will be studying these in separate tutorials presumably possibly with me and my videos etc but british public schools were developing their nature of athleticism at this exact time it was those schools that corbett and amongst other places visited so we've got this real notion of the values of athleticism we've got moral integrity combined with physical endeavor and that was really central to this development but also we also need to identify them we see this to an extent these days as well of course with the olympic movement it was a real desire to bring peace and unity to what was a very conflict-based world but to bring peace and unity now obviously if you know anything about the first half of the 20th century the 50 years that followed this you know that peace and unity didn't go that well we could think of first of all or second world war but that was the intent of these olympic games and i really want you to refer back to those characters robert dover william penny brooks de kobertan the cotswold games the much wedlock games and ultimately the panasonic stadium in athens in 1896 leading to what we all know and love today which is the olympic and also don't forget the winter olympic games hope that's useful thanks